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TAB. XVI.
B R A S AVO LA* GLAUCA:
GLAVCOUS-STEMMEB BKASAVOLA.
TRIBUS: E P I D ENDREÌE.—LINDLEY.
BRASAVOLA. J?. Brown, in Hort. Keiv. ed. 2-5, 2\6.—Lind. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 114.
PERIANTHIUM expknatum. Sépala et petak subiuqualia, libera, acuminata.
L a b e l l um cucullatiim, integrum, columnam involvens. Cohimiia marginata, elavata,
s t i g m a t e intundibulari, clinandrio posticè Iridenlato. Pollinia 8, suba-qualia, qiiib
u s d am aliis parvis interjectis. Anthcra 4-locuìaris, septis margiuatis, localis
s e m i b i p a r t i t i s . Herbic Americana} caulescentes, epiphytal, apice Ibliuni solitariiim,
srepiiis semi-cylindraceum, carnosum, suprà sulcatum, apice subulatum
g e r e n t e s . 'Flores terminales, magni, speciosi.
BHASAVOLA glauca; aiulibus brevìbus incrassatis compressis folio quam maximé^ carnoso pauló
brevioribus, Horibus solitariis 6 spatliá magnil pedunculo subtequali emmpenübus : sepalis peUillsque
confonnibiis coriaceis repanclis liinceolatis obtusis, labello-corclato basi convoluto latevibus iiiíEíiuaJiter
lobatis : columnil brevissima marginibus membnmaceis, clinaudrio 5-lobo.
Habitat propt; Xalapam in Me,xico.—IIE N, HAUTWEC, DESCIIA
DcScripttoiT.
From a stout RUIZOMA, spring, at mtei-calsof about an inch, the short, swollen, coinprcsscd
STEMS, three or four Inches long, rather shorter than the leaves. LEAVES solitary, exceedingly
Jieshy, glancous (as are aUo the stems), obtuse, sometimes boat-shaped. From the axil of the leaf
issues a hroicu. compressed Si'ATUE, as long as the peduncle, and about three inches in length.
FED ¡CELL tapering into a long neck. SEPALS and PETALS spreading, leathery, lanceulutc, obtme,
equal to each other, of a pale olive-green. Lw convolute at the base, but expanded iipu-ard.-i into a
broad, cordate, acute, Jlat, whitish-ydlow plate, irregularly lobed at the sides; at its base, in the
inside, are four sanguine strealis; it is fully two inches long, and C'"- the widest part J almost as
broad. COLVMX very short, membranous at the edges, with an uneqnally 5-lobed CLINANDHIUM.
(LindUy h liU.J
THIS remarkable Brasar.ola was originally sent to England by Mr. HF.NCHMAN, who discovered a
solitary ijlant of it in the neighbourhood of Xalapa. It was subsequently met with, near the same locality,
by Mr, II.VRTWKG, by whom some fine plants were transmitted to the Horticultural Socict\- of London, in
t!ie early part of 1837 : and from one of tlicse, which flowered in their garden at Cluswick, the followng
spring, the accompanying drawing was prepared.
Shoray after the arrival of ^Ir. HARTWEC.'S collection, the species again made its appearance, amongst
a huge assemblage of iMexiain Orchidaccfe, Nvhich had been bi-ought to England (on speculation) by a
Frenchnuiu, of tiie name of DESCHAM es.-\- To some of these phuit^ were attached tlie remains of what had
• So cnlltd by Brown, in lioiiour of Anu Ntusa. BraMvolo, irn Iinlion botanist.
f Tliis iinpormion wua tiuitc unique io In w«y, and formed a sort of cpocli in the liisiory of the Orel
freiglitca, almost exclusively, vvitli Epiiihytca and Cacti, and sucli was li.eir abnndancc, tliat it wai found ncccssary lo engage nu pxiensive suite ol^^
alv,riti.cnts for tlieir acen.nmo<Ullo«, in [lungcrforJ Wark.t I TI.e plan pursued by M. Dcsebati.ps »•as lo parcel out Ins plants m small collccuoui of
about twenty spcelcs, for winch, in the first instance, he asked ami obtained very liigU prices, but tlie London market bemg at length exhausted,
»itnilar collections vvero .listribuled through the provinces, and offer«! at greatly retluced rales. The autl.or himself purehascd, m a country to».^ a
set of at h-n-n „rely kinds for a sn.n winch, in tl.c >neuopolls, be liad in vain tendered for oitly i-ro/ In case of any future inundation of Orcludaeea;.
tills little fact should be borne in mind.
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