ip is light green, spotted with the same dark colour ; above 
he base it B hallowed out; above the hollow it is furnished 
with a strong inflexed white horn, which rises from a some- 
what rugged base ; and the margin is broken up into slender 
stiff processes, which are evidently an incomplete state of the 
fringes found on the lip of Catasetum cristatum, &c. It was 
imported by Messrs. Loddiges. 
Fig.8. CATASETU M barbatum, var. proboscideum. 
Long-beaked Catasetum. 
C. proboscideum ; labello deflexo multifido : laciniis filiformibus laceris, co- 
lumné apice proboscidiformi: cirrhis deflexis columna longioribus. Bot. 
Reg. 1839. mise. no. 140. 
I had unadvisedly supposed that this plant was a new 
species ; and it is perhaps as much entitled to such a cha- 
racter as some others about which no doubt has hitherto been 
raised. But I confess my inability, upon a formal examina- 
tion of it, to distinguish it specifically from C. barbatum. It 
is however a different looking plant, owing to the beard of 
the lip being green and not pmk. Mr. Wailes of Newcastle 
received it from Dr. Gardner, who found it growing on a 
small species of Palm near Sertao. I have also received it 
from the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester. 
Fig. 4. CATASETUM laminatum, var. eburneum. 
White-lipped Knife-blade Catasetum. 
C. laminatum. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 30. 
B. eburneum; labello eburneo columné petalisque immaculatis. Ibid. 
The original C. laminatum, figured in the Sertum Orchi- 
daceum, had its lip and petals spotted with purple. This, 
which is a mere variety, is remarkable for a total absence of 
spots from those parts, and for its lip being a pure ivory 
white. Both varieties were sent from Mexico to the Horti- 
cultural Society by Mr. Hartweg. 
Fig. 5. CATASETUM lanciferum. 
Lance-bearing Catasetum. 
C. lanciferum ; petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi 
suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato fimbriato basin versus saccato 
sub sacco cornu tripartito instructo, sub apice lamin lineari-lanceolat& 
aucto, columne cirrhis vix column longioribus. 
A Brazilian species, for which I am indebted to the Hon. 
and Very Reverend Wm. Herbert. It was collected by Dr. 
Gardner in Brazil, and is perhaps a variety of C. barbatum ; 
but it is very different in its lip. 
