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* MONACHANTHUS discolor. = 777. 7 
Dingy Monk-flower. ; 
A —e 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHIDER, $ VANDER, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
MONACHANTHUS. Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala 
deorsúm versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, ventricosum, sepalis 
multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa, mutica. Anthera et Pollinia Cataseti. 
—Epiphyta Cataseti habitu. Genera et Sp. Orch. 157. 
M. discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello hemispherico marginibus planis 
medio fimbriatis. 
Epiphyta, pseudobulbis 3-poll. longis, oblongis, teretibus, leviter corru- 
gatis, cicatricibus foliorum annulatis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, plicata. 
Racemus cylindraceus, laxus, multiflorus, spithamam longus. Sepala line- 
aria, obtusa, reflexa, viridi-fusca. Petala recta, conformia, fusco-purpurea. 
Labellum posticum, cucullatum, acutum, carnosum, viridi-purpureum, intus 
viridi-luteum, margine reflexo medio fimbriato. Columna brevis, viridi-lutea, 
mutica, stigmatis excavati margine inferiore convexo prominente, lateralibus 
deorsum productis. 
A very rare plant in Demerara, whence Mr. Bateman 
received a single bulb by his collector, Mr. Colley. We are 
enabled to figure it by means of a specimen from the collec- 
tion at Knypersley, which we received in November last. 
Although not handsome, this is an interesting plant, as 
confirming the genus Monachanthus, which before consisted 
of but a single species found in the Brazils, of which we shall 
give a figure in some future number of this work. It differs 
from M. viridis in the number of the flowers, in their colour, 
and especially in the form of the lip, which looks more like 
an old rusty iron scull-cap, than any thing else we can com- 
pare it to. 
* Monks flower, which is the meaning of this generie name, will not be consi- 
dered unapplicable, when you compare the labellum of the original species to a 
cowl. 
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