ARETHUSEJE. 499 
lumnáque rufis.  (Labellum mobile, reflexum, irritatione inflexum, 
column:x incumbens, R. Br.) 
l. CatgANa major. Brown, Prodr. 329. Endl. ic. gen. t. 1598. 
C. * folio lanceolato lineari plano, scapo medio unibracteato laminá 
. labelli levi: utràque extremitate angustatà semiovatà." 
Hab. in N. Hollandia, juxta Portum Jackson, R. Brown, in sylvis sterilibus, 
A. Cunningham, juxta Rocky Cape solo sterili arenaceo in Tasmannia, 
Dec. Gunn, 946. (hab. s. sp.) . 
Upon this singular plant Mr. Gunn has favoured me with the following 
note. ‘This is a most curious species. When expanded, the top is 
erect, resembling as my men said, the lid of an antique pewter pot ; but 
the least shake made it close downwards with a sudden spring, so that 
when first collected, not aware of this peculiarity, I believed the upper 
parts of the flowers to have been knocked oíf. With the greatest care 
I could only get three or four specimens into my paper without the lids 
clesed, The irritable part appeared to be the lower part of the hinge, 
as I tried many with ends of a straw. The colour is a dark red, pretty 
well preserved in drying. To me the whole looked not unlike a bird's 
head and body." 
2. CaLEANA minor. R. Brown, Prodr. 329. 
C. “folio filiformi-lineari canaliculato, scapo medio ebracteato, labelli 
lamina tuberculata: apice angustato bilobo." 
Hab. in N. Hollandia, juxta Portum Jackson, R. Brown. (hab, s. sp. a 
cel. invent.) 
3. CarEANA nigrita. Lindl. Swan River, pl. no. 262. 
C. folio ovato acuminato obtuso basi cucullato, scapo nudo, labelli laminá 
lineari tuberculatà basi subcordatà apice angustata indivisa. 
Hab. in N. Hollandia, ad Swan River, Drummond. (hab. s. sp.) 
For an account of the singular irritability of this plant see the sketch of 
Swan River Vegetation in the Appendix to the first twenty-three volumes of 
the Botanical Register, page liv. 
Div. 3. VANILLEZ. 
Vanillacez. Lindi. Nat. Syst. ed. 2. p. 341. 
Pollen pulvereum, granulosum, aut in 
Folia evaginata, cum caule articulata, 
sæpiùs reticulata glabra dura et plicata. Caulis in quibusdam scandens. 
Radices omnium fibrose. Fructus sæpiùs carnosus. Semina in Vanilla 
et Cyrtosia aptera, in Erythrorchi marginata, caeteris ignota. 
Stigma ad columne apicem. 
massà pulposà concretum. 
April, 1840. KKK 
