quite destitute of fringe. The colour of the flowers is 
strikingly different in all the three ; here ofa rich yellow 
green, the inside of the lip and the apex of the middle lobe 
of a deep golden brown colour. In a (Bot. Mag. |. c. fig. 
A.) the lateral lobes of the lip have a short fringe ; here it 1s 
very long and reddish. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is 
indebted for the possession of this plant to Mr. Hoste (?), 
who kindly sent pseudo-bulbs of it to Mr. Murray in 
1838. They flowered in November, 1839, in great perfec- 
tion. With the exception of the points above alluded to, 
our description of Monacanrnus discolor will be found 
characteristic of this. Had the Genus itself been founded 
upon the M. discolor, instead of the evidently abortive- 
flowered M. viridis (Lanvu. Bot. Reg. t. 1752), we should 
think more favorably of it as distinct from Caraserum : and 
of the species at present known we would wish to confine it 
to M. discolor (Bot. Reg. t. 1735 and Bot. Mag. t. 3601), 
M. jimbriatus (Bot. Mag. t. 3708), M. Bushnani (Tab. 
nostr. 3832), and to the very beautiful and very distinct 
M. roseo-albus. These have a decidedly marked charac- , 
ter distinct from Cataserum. Yet, strange to say, flowers 
of the two, and even of Myanruus also, have been found 
by Scuomsurek growing from one and the same root! 
(See Linpt. Bot. Reg. t. 1951, and Hooxer’s Icones 
Plantarum. 
Fig. 1. Column; and section of the Labellum :—magnified. 
