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MonAcHANTHUS FIMBRIATUS. FIMBRIATED 
MonkK-FLOWER. 
Class and Order. 
Gynanpria Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuiweE. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala equalia de- 
orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, 
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa, 
mutica. Anthera et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Monacuantuus fimbriatus; labello longissimo fimbriato 
intus pubescente. 
Monacuantuus fimbriatus. Gardner, MSS. 
This plant certainly belongs to the Genus Mowaceaderievs, 
agreeing, as it does, with that species, M. viridis, on which 
Livptey founded the Genus, in general habit, in its mode 
of inflorescence, and in having all its sepals and petals 
turned in the same direction. The posterior situation of 
the labellum, which covers the other parts of the flower like 
a helmet, together with its fleshy structure, and the green 
colour of the blossoms, assimilate it with MonacHanTHvs. 
pseudo- -bulbs, and the many-flowered scape, and still 
remarkably in its three-lobed fringe and labellum, and the 
excavated column. Although I have twice met with M. 
viridis in blossom in the province of Rio Janeiro, yet as it 
always so happened that the anther and pollen-masses had 
disappeared, it is impossible for me to institute a over: 
son of the two species, so far as regards these orga 
