966 . 
CATASETUM cristatum. 
Crested Catasetum. 
gynanqria monandria. 
Nat. ord. Orchide*. Tribus Vandese Lindley. 
CATASETUM. — Suprd, vol. 10. tab. 840. 
C cristatum; sepalis patentibus; superioribos conniventibus, labello cns- 
' tato saccate expanse. Lindley in hart. tmns. nmma . 
Habitus o mninb C. tridentalsed .folia pauli latwraetmagu* ^ 
Spica radicalis, suberecla, multifiora,folm 
«Sar-“=' ar * 
The first account which appeared of this singular plant 
was in the sixth volume of the Transactions of the Horti¬ 
cultural Society, in a Report upon the New or Rar 
Plants which had flowered in their Garden at Chiswick, 
from its first formation to March 1824. To this estabhsh- 
ment the plant was introduced from Bahia de St. Salvador 
in 1823, by Mr. George Don. Our drawing was made in 
the Society’s garden, in August 1824. 
The present plant differs from all the other species of 
Catasetum in the form and nature of Us labe um, 
the manner in which the sepals are expan * ^ 
every other respect, in its habit, foliage, in o agrees 
especially in the structure of its columna, it enti y g 
with Catasetum. 
The unimportance of the peculiarity which exists in the 
labellum is manifested in a singular man y 
monster of this plant which we observed on an ' nd * vldu “ l 
in the Horticultural Society’s Carden. Among 
the ordinary structure, two or three others were observed 
