o ape tet ee 
re ee” BR A SIA CAUDATA. 
| ete ae - Long-tailed Brassia. ¢ 
5 ea DRIA MONANDRIA—Naz. Onp. ORCHIDER. | 
. Gen. Cra’ —Labellum ‘explanatum ‘indivisum. . ; Petala anne distincta. ae : 
> oa Columna aptera, Masse pollinis duze, postice bilobe ; medio affixee pro- ree ts 
ae cessui communi i stigmatis—Br. es 2 3 : 
oe a8 Brassia toipia: ae ilalis: ‘Bas ‘extetioribus valde attenuatis inferiori- 
ee f. bus longissimis, labello oblongo acuminulato, foliis penceaians binis, 
: © bulbo-compresso.. a. aE” iB : 
as caudata, Linp-. in Bot. Reg t. 852. ie | 
eS ~Malanis caudata, WiLLD. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 98. : 
. Epidendrum caudatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1349. - ee 
~ Epidendrum foliis radicalibus lanceolatis, Prume Plant. Am < 17 : : 
ae ~ From an oblong, much. compressed, thin bulb, about four inches long, “pe io 
“the two lanceolate, obtuse, op pate thick, and fleshy leisues, not  Viehly e. 
i; oe _ striated, ces a | ie ee. 
eo :. The scape is produced from a small scat leaf, thickeried “ ‘hte hase 
y° “*_. “into a.sort: of -bulb3-it" is a foot or a foot and a half. long, terete, here : 
a and there furnished with a sehig bractea, | and small bracteas at the. Pe i 
base of the flowers. ey ae ie , era 
"spit long, lax, of 8 or 10 dagers Segments of wie delet all setae . 
~ deep fulvous-yellow, spotted with brown ; three outer segments much. roe 
gee acuminated, their two lowermost ones ending i in excessively: long points; 
two inner ones lanceolate. Lip. pendent, thin, membranaceous, oblotig, =). s+", 
__. plane, or slightly convex, pale » yellow, spotted near the base, and there. eee 
. -having four white tubercles, two. large and oblong, and two smaller ehh 
[. ° .... Mical- ones, the tnargin waved, ending in a narrow’ acumen. | Column ~ 
[:. Jyery short, green. # ‘Anther “nearly hemispherical, slightly downy, Der 
Js celled, operculiform, containing two obovate pollen-masses, which have . oe eo 
Pi a depressed spot. behind, and which are united by. their basis toa small’. 
ie whitish gland.” Germen ha” aed striated, scarcely twisted, green. a ‘, 
4 . ‘The superb s specimen bs this plant here given flowered 3 in. 
2 a une 1825, in the avove of the. Botanic Garden of Liverpool, 
Ss — “VOL. 111. oe Se ee ae eT ae 
