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CYCNOCHES Egertonianum ; var. viride. 
Green Egertonian Swan-neck. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE=. $ VANDEZ—CATASETIDE. (ORCHIDS, 
Vegetable Kingdom, p. 181.) 
CYCNOCHES. Supra, t. 1742. 
C. Egertonianum ; „racemo longissimo pendulo, sepalis petalisque membra- 
naceis recurvis, labelli disco rotundato in processubus clavatis acutisque 
eequilongis soluto, columná tenui longissimà. 
a, Floribus atropurpureis. 
C. Egertonianum, Bateman Orchid. Mexic. $ Guatemala, t. 40. 
P. Floribus pallidě virentibus. 
C. stelliferum, Loddiges’ Cat. no. 1017. 
This plant was imported from Oaxaca by Messrs. Lod- 
diges, and flowered with them in August 1843, when the 
accompanying figure was made. It is evidently a variety of 
the C. Egertonianum, distinguished by its flowers being of a 
pale watery green, and not deep purple. 
But what is C. Egerionianum itself? In our volume for 
1848, at p. 77 of the miscellaneous matter, we have extracted 
from Mr. Bateman's magnificent work his account of how the 
long-spiked small-purple-flowered C. Egertonianum is only 
the short-spiked large-green-flowered C. ventricosum ; how 
the same plant at one time bears one sort of flowers, and at 
another time another sort; and we have shewn how the same 
plant, nay the same spike, is sometimes both the one, the 
other, and neither. C. Egertonianum is then a “ sport,” as 
gardeners say, of C. ventricosum. 
But what again is C. ventricosum? Who knows that it is 
not another * sport” of C. Loddigesii, which has indeed been 
caught in the very act of shewing a false face, something won- 
derfully suspicious, all things considered, and justifying the idea 
that it is itself a mere Janus, whose face is green and short 
on one side, and spotted and long on the other. 
Then, if such apparently honest species as C. Egertoma- 
num, ventricosum, and Loddigesü are but counterfeits, what 
warrant have we for regarding the other so-called species as j 
