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MonacAntuus BusunAnt. Mr. BusHnan’s 
MOoONK-FLOWER. 
KEKE KK KEKE KEKE KEKE KEK REE 
Class and Order. 
GynanpriA Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipEz. ) 
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 Catasetii—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Monacantuvs Bushnani; labello trilobo ventricoso, lobis « 
lateralibus reflexis longe ciliatis, intermedio nudo 
valde acuto. 
Monacanruus discolor. y. Bushnani. Hook. Bot. Mag. 
t. 3601. ihe 
(8.) labelli lobis lateralibus longius fimbriatis. 
Such as is well known to be the sportive nature of the 
epiphytal orchideous plants, and especially of the Cata- 
setum-group, that it is very difficult to recognise the penpre 
_ limits of species. A single blossom of a plant, which I 
consider to be specifically the same with the present, I had 
figured at letter A of the plate of Monacanruus discolor, as 
var.y of that species. A slight variety of that again is 
_ here represented, and the plant is elevated to the rank of a 
meg ; but whether justly or not may admit of a question. 
he original M. discolor (Linpt., Bot. Reg. t. 1735) has 
the middle lobe of the labellum remarkably obtuse, and 
fringed to the very point :—my var. viridiflorus (Bot. Mag. 
t. 3601) has the mdadle lobe obtuse, but obscurely fringed : 
in our present plant the middle lobe is very ot ae 
