The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Brassia (This genus embraces about)

This genus embraces about a score species. To those described on pp. 209-10, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. cinnamomea (cinnamon). A synonym of B. Keiliana.

B. elegantula (rather elegant). fl. small; sepals green, with brown bars, spreading; lip white, with two keels, hairy inside, dotted purplish-brown in front of the calli; raceme two to five-flowered. l. and pseudo-bulbs glaucous. Mexico, 1885. An elegant species.

B. Keiliana (Keil's). fl. disposed in a loose, many-flowered raceme; sepals and petals at first yellow, eventually turning brownish-orange; lip whitish; bracts boat-shaped, longer than the ovaries. New Grenada. A dwarf and compact species: it will thrive in the Cattleya house. SYNS. B. cinnamomea, Oncidium Keilianum.

B. maculata major (larger). fl. freely produced; sepals and petals greenish-yellow, spotted brown; lip white, spotted dark brown. Jamaica.

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