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remarkable that on Kunth's plate, above cited, there is a figure of 

 a female flower attached to the fruit, but, being restored from 

 the withered flower, it is inaccurate in some respects, notably the 

 column and lip, which have clearly been helped out from the 

 male flower. In Lindley's Herbarium is a most interesting 

 specimen, with eight female flowers below and two males at the 

 apex of the raceme. 













10. Catasetum Naso, Lindl. 



c? . C. Naso, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxix. (1843), Misc. p. 71 ; id. 

 xxx., Misc. p. 36 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4792. 

 2 • There is a MS. drawing at Kew of a plant which flowered 

 at Syon House, which shows both sexes of this species. The 

 drawing is unfinished, but a single detached flower of either sex 

 is finished in colours. The male has the petals somewhat resem- 

 bling the lip in character, though otherwise normal. Under- 

 neath is written, " Another apparent var. of Cat. ITaso— but 

 with remarkable petals." The female is quite normal, and under 

 it is written " Monachanthus viridisP This very drawing is the 

 original of Bot. Mag. t. 4792, but for some reason the female 

 flower is altogether omitted from the plate. Sir William Hooker 

 remarks : — " Drawings of the two kinds of flowers here given 

 .... were submitted to Dr. Lindley, who considers them to be 

 varieties of C. Naso ; as such we represent them, with a feeling, 

 however, upon our minds that they may all be sports of the 

 original G. tridentatum." I may add that in the published 

 plate all the flowers represented on the raceme are males in the 

 normal condition, and that the detached flower represents a 

 peloriate state of the same, with fimbriate petals, as pointed out 

 above. 



















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11. Catasettjm (Ekstedii, Reichb.f. 



6. C. (Erstedii, Reichb.f. in Bonpl. iii. (1855), p. 218 ; id. 



in Walp. Ann. Bot. vi. p. 565. 

 $. C. CErstedii, Reichb.f.-, Walp. Ann. Bot. vi. (1861), 





p. 577. 



12. Catasetum pileatum, Reichb.f. 



6 . C. pileatum, Reichb.f in Oard. Chron. n. s. xvii. p. 492 ; 

 id. xxvi. p. 616 ; Sander, Reichenbachia, ii. p. 91 (also $ ), 



t. 90.— C. Bungerothii, N. E. Br. in Lindenia, ii. (1886), 











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