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BRASSIA caudata. 
) Long-tailed Brassia. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. . 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER.—Sect. IV. Epidendrez. 
BRASSIA. Rk. Br. Labellum explanatum indivisum. Petala patula 
distincta. Columna aptera. Massa pollinis 2, posticd bilobe; medio af- 
fixee processui communi stigmatis. 2. Br. in Ait. Kew. ed. 2. 5,215. 
B. caudata, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis : inferioribus caudatis, la- 
‘bello acuminato, bulbo ancipite. { 
Helleborine ramosissima, caulibus et floribus maculosis. Plum. spec. 9. ic. 
277. 
Epidendrum caudatum. Linn. sp. pl. 1849. 
Malaxis caudata. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 93. Pers. syn. 2. 514. 
Folia bina, oblonga, erecta, 5-nervia, in bulbo ancipite insidentia. 
Scapus radicalis, vaginatus, foliis longior. Spica rigida, erecta, glabra, 
9-flora. Flores resupinati, magni, subsecundi; bracteis ovatis, acutis, 
brevibus. Perianthium explanatum, patens, regulare, lutco-viride, fusco 
purpureo intus maculatum; sepala libera, carnosa, basi vix imbricata, ex- 
teriora ovato-lanceolata supremo erecto acuminato, inferioribus longissimis 
dependentibus caudatis (45 uncialibus) ; interiora ovato-lanceolata, acumi- 
nata, supremo duplo breviora. Labellum dependens, liberum, longitudince, 
sepalorum interiorum, ovato-lanceolatum, acuminatum, margine membrana- 
ceum, ad apicem viridi-luteum, infra medium fusco maculatum, basi paulo 
excavatum, tuberculis 2, albis, linearibus, compressis, parallelis, pubescen- 
tibus: vertice luteo, in facie excavatd columne recumbentibus. Cis tubercu- 
los adsunt processus duo, parvi, cornuti, albi. Columna erecta, libera 
semi-teres, anticé excavata ad alterum tuberculorum labelli finem recipiendem. 
Gynizus excavatus, subquadratus, marginatus. Anthera terminalis, opercu- 
laris, cito decidua, 1-locularis, pileiformis. Pollinia 2, oblonga, lutea, pos- 
tice obsolete biloba, filo brevi communi insidentia, glandula crassa, brunnea. 
gynizt apict affixa. 
For an opportunity of publishing this curious and 
beautiful plant we are obliged to Mr. Lee, of the Hammer- 
smith Nursery, by whom it was imported from the West 
Indies. It requires the heat of a bark-stove, and is culti- 
vated in the same way as other plants of the family. 
The genus Brassia, as established by Mr. Brown, in the 
Hortus Kewensis, consisted of a single species, a native of 
Jamaica. It is principally distinguished from Cymbidium 
by the labellum, which is entire, and not elastically jointed 
with the columna. It constitutes part of a large section of 
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