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CATASETUM maculatum. 
Spotted Feelerbloom. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEA, $ VANDER. 
CATASETUM. Botanical Register, vol. 20. fol. 1667. 
C. maculatum ; sepalis petalisque conniventibus, labello carnoso galeato basi 
inflexo lateribus suis invicem imbricantibus. 
a. labello basi ciltato. 
C. maculatum. Bateman Orchid. of Mexico $ Guatemala, t. 11. an Kunthii ? 
C. integerrimum. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3823. 
B. labello basi levi. 
'This Catasetum is very nearly the same as the old C. 
tridentatum, from which it differs in its helmet-shaped lip 
having the lower edges brought together so as to press upon 
the column, instead of being wide apart. Whether or not it 
is the C. maculatum of Kunth I am unable to say. It pro- 
bably is, it possibly is not. That plant was never seen by 
the Botanist who described it, but it was taken, up from M. v. 
Humboldt's notes. Those notes were made upon the living 
plant as found at Turbaco, and are therefore less liable to 
error than if they had been made up from a dried specimen. 
Now Baron Humboldt says that in his plant the petals are 
somewhat serrated, and the leaves only three inches long, 
arising from the apex of the bulb; but here the petals are 
not serrated, the leaves are nearer a foot in length, and they 
arise from the sides, not apex, of the pseudo-bulb. Are these 
differences unimportant? Serrated petals are not uncommon 
in the order, but they have not yet been seen in Catasetum ; 
in this plant the lip is sometimes serrated, sometimes perfectly 
even at the edge; perhaps therefore the petals may be also 
both serrated and entire in different individuals. It is pro- 
bable that there is some mistake about the length of the 
leaves, because no such size either has been or seems likely 
