not being further examples of plants masguerading with false 
faces? For ourselves we cannot answer the question; nor 
should we be astonished at finding some day a Cycnoches no 
longer a Cycnoches, but something else; perhaps a Cata- 
setum. If one could accept the doctrine of the author of the 
“ Vestiges,” it might be said that in this place we have found 
plants actually undergoing the changes which he assumes to 
be in progress throughout nature, and that they are thus 
subject to the most startling conditions only because their new 
forms have not yet acquired stability. 
Be that as it may, it will be as well to state in this place 
what the so-called species are of this extraordinary genus, 
and what the changes are which they have been seen to 
undergo. 
So-CALLED SPECIES or CYCNOCHES. 
1. C. Loddiges (Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. p. 154. Bot. 
Cab. t. 2000. Bot. Reg. t. 1742.)—— Surinam —— 
Flowers very large, fragrant, green and purple, with a 
white spotted lip. Sports by producing smaller broad- 
lipped: flowers without scent, and with a very short club- 
shaped column. 
2. C. ventricosum (Bateman Orch. Mex. & Guatemala, t. 5.) 
—— Guatemala.—— Flowers large, green, with a white 
lip. Sports to Egertonianum. 
3. C. chlorochilon (Klotzsch. Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 16.) 
Maracaybo.—— Flowers very large, green, whole- 
coloured. Has not been observed to sport: but is pro- 
bably a mere variety of C. ventricosum. 
. ©. pentadactylon (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 26. 
t. 22.)—— Brazil.—— Flowers large, yellowish green, 
banded with brown. Has not been observed to sport. 
5. C. maculatum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840. misc. 8. Sertum 
Orchidaceum, t. 33.) —— Mexico ? La Guayra. 
Flowers small, yellow, spotted with brown. Has not 
been observed to sport. 
6. C. Egertonianum (Bateman Orch. Mex. & Guatemala, 
t. 40. Bot. Reg. 1846. t. 46.)—— Guatemala and 
Mexico. — — Flowers small, purple or greenish, unspotted. 
Sports to ventricosum. 
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