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MR. B. A. BOLEE ON THE 



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viridis, as pointed out at p. 210. Lindley himself afterwards 

 confounded the female of C. tridentatum with it, while Schom- 

 burgk confounded together both the latter and the female of C. 

 arbatum, under the same name. I have only seen the original 

 drawing and a single dried flower, but the so-called " § Mona- 

 chanthus " form of Catasetum cernuum, cited above, is clearly the 



same. 

























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5. Catasetum crtstatum, Lindl. 



6 . C. cristatum, Lindl. Bot. Beg. x. (1824), sub t. 840 ; id. 

 t. 966 ; Yar. monstrosum, Hook. Ic. PI. ii. 1. 177 (also $ )• 

 Myanthus cristat/fs, Lindl. Bot. Beg. xxiii. (1837), 

 t. 1947 a, text 1951* (also $ ). 

 $> . Monachanthus cristatus, Lindl. Bot. Beg. xxiii. (1837), 

 t. 1947 a, text 1951* (also <5 ). — Catasetum cristatum, var. 

 monstrosum, HooJc. Icon. PI. ii. t. 177 (also d). 

 , This species is interesting, as the one in which the occurrence 

 of a second kind of flower in the genus Catasetum was first ob- 

 served, though the significance of the phenomenon was until long 

 afterwards quite unknown. At t. 966 of the ' Botanical Register ' 

 (in 1826) Lindley speaks of "a curious monster" which bore, 

 among flowers of the ordinary kind, two or three others in which 

 the labellum was of the same nature as that of C. tridentatum. 















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Ca tase tum Dakwiniantm, Bolfe. (Plate VIII.) 



<$ . C. Darwinianum, Bolfe, in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, v. p. 394. 

 C. fuliginosum, Bolfe, in Oard. Chron. ser. 3,iv. (1887) 

 p. 473 (non Lindl.). 



. C. Darwinianum, Bolfe, in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, v. p. 394. 

 C. fuliginosum, Bolfe, in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, iv. (1887), 

 p. 473 {non Lindl.). 

 This is a plant which flowered in the Kew Collection during 



the autumn of 1888. 



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nosum, Lindl., described from a female specimen only, of which 

 the native country is unknown. But on working up the present 

 paper and comparing the dried specimens side by side, I think 

 the identification erroneous, and have therefore proposed the new 

 name above cited. The plant, which is a native of British Guiana, 











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