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* MYÁNTHUS cérnuus. 
Drooping Fly-wort. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipem $ VANDEZ. ‘(Introduction to the Natural Sys- 
tem of Botany, p. 262) 
MYANTHUS. Lindl. Supra, fol. 1538. 
M. cernuus. Gener. and Sp. of Orch. pl. part 3. p. 155. 
Catasetum trifidum. Hooker. Bot. Mag. t. 3262. 
This very curious plant is found growing upon the trunks 
of trees near Rio Janeiro. It seems first to have found its 
way to this country through Trinidad, whence it was sent 
to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, and figured in the Bota- 
nical Magazine. , 
For the beautiful drawing which we now publish, we are 
indebted to Miss M. A. Huntley, the daughter of the Rev. 
J. T. Huntley, in whose rich collection it flowered in great 
beauty in May last. ! 
Like all the species with the habit of the now common 
Catasetums, this is very easily cultivated, provided it is 
rested'for some months by being kept cool and dry, when 
not growing, and is vigorously forced when in full vege- 
tation. We know not whether it is as avid of water as 
some of the Catasetums, but we find those plants thrive best 
when their roots are actually immersed in water while 
growing. 
[In the dissections, fig. 1. represents a side view of the 
flower, to shew that when it is expanded the two petals are 
connivent with the upper sepal; fig. 2. shews the labellum 
jointed with the column; fig. 3. a back view of the pollen- 
masses with their caudicula and gland. M. A. H.] 
* From pvïa a fly; the flowers look when dried very much like a fly 
pressed flat, 
mo 
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