1752 
* MONACHÁNT HUS viridis. 
Green-flowered Cowlwort. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncuipgg $ Vannes, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
MONACHANTHUS.—Supra, vol. 20. fol. 1735. 
M. viridis; racemo multifloro, labello oblongo cuspidato margine levi, sepalis 
petalisque rigidis ovatis. 
M. viridis, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 157. 
Planta facie omnino Cataseti tridentati quo foliis et caule tantum con- 
venit ut floribus ademptis eandem diceres. Flores carnosi, herbacei, labelli 
margine vitellino. Sepala ovata, acuta, rigida, petalis parallela. Petala 
conformia, sed latiora et maculis quibusdam purpureis obscuris notata. 
Labellum posticum ventricosum, carnosum, 13-poll. longum, ore obliquo 
levi cuspidato. Columna brevis, ovata, carnosa, mutica. 
This is the original species on which the genus Mona- 
chanthus was founded. In habit it is so like Catasetum tri- 
dentatum that we long doubted whether it ought to be gene- 
rically separated. The absence of the long tendril-like 
processes, which are so conspicuous upon the column of 
Catasetum, was, however, so remarkable a circumstance, 
that we came to the conclusion that it must be an essentially 
distinct form ; and the discovéry of the curious Monachanthus 
discolor, figured at tab. 1735, has shewn that we judged 
correctly. 
A native of Brazil, growing upon trees in the Corcovado, 
whence Dr. Hooker received the drawing and specimen 
which first made the genus known. Our figure was made, 
from a specimen communicated last November from Went- 
* See fol. 1735. 
