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CATASETUM Claveringi. 
Captain Clavering's Catasetum. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER.—Div. IV. Epidendree. Sect. I. Ecalcarate v. 
ad maximum saccate. Pollinia 2. Supra fol. 832. 
CATASETUM, Rich.— Perianthium rectum, sepius globosum, Za- 
bellum saccatum, concavum, sepalis difforme. Columna aptera bicirrhosa. 
Anthera cornuta, bilocularis. Pollinia postice biloba, in filo maximo, denu- 
dato, transverso, demum elastice contractili, inserta. 
Div. I. Perianthium globosum. | Labellum saccatum, galeatum. : 
C. Claveringi, spicà foliis breviore, labello carnoso apice tridentato, sepalis 
oblongis obtusis: interioribus maculatis. er "^. 
Bulbi epigei, aggregati, ovales, subfusiformes, vaginis foliorum rigidis 
pallidis undique vestiti. Folia 4-5, lanceolata, glaberrima, ad basin attenu- 
ata, pallide viridia, 5-nervia, subplicata, nervis lateralibus approximatis à 
medio distantibus. Bulbi juniores et bases foliorum purpureo hic illic macu- 
lati. Scapus radicalis, teres, glaucus, foliis multo brevior, 6-florus, vaginis 
brevibus, pallidis, substriatis vestitus. Flores maximi, spicati, globosi, 
Myrrhidis odore, cito decidui. Sepala secunda, ovato-lanceolata, glaberri- 
ma, extus viridia apices versus rubro suffusa, exteriora intus purpuro obscuro 
maculata, interiora maculis purpuri intensi variegata. Labellum maximum, 
posticum, carnosum, inter sepaía exteriora erectum, saccatum, cucullatum, 
apice viride, limbo et intus intense luteum, medio margine tridentatum. Co- 
lumna cum labello continua, recta, clavata, cornuta, semiteres, dorso cari- 
nata, purpuro punctata et maculata, antice cirrhis duobus filiformibus ex 
angulis inferioribus gynizi dependentibus, in basi labelli incurvatıs. dE 
quadratus, excavatus, labio inferiore tenui, porrecto, transverso. inan- 
drium posticè in cornu columne ferè dimidiá longitudine productum. in 
thera terminalis, opercularis, 2-locularis, elastice dissiliens, cristá cornut 
cornu clinandrii respondente. Pollinia 2, pallidè-lutea, cava, postice fissa, 
filo annexa corneo, rhomboideo, partem clinandrii extra antheram tegente, 
demum elastice contractili et convolulo; glandulà mazima, ovata, parti su- 
periori gynizi adherente. 
This fine new species of Catasetum was brought, in 
1822, from Bahia de St. Salvador, in Brazır, to the Horti- 
cultural Society, by Mr. George Don. It is a far more 
remarkable plant than the Catasetum tridentatum of 
Hooker, and altogether the most singular Orchideous 
plant which has yet been seen in a cultivated state. Its 
flowers are soon past; while in perfection, they por 
slightly in the middle of the day, and emit a faint no i 
resembling Myrrh. Our drawing was made last September. 
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