Tas. 7069. 
CATASETUM GARNETTIANUM. 
Native of the Amazons River. 
Nat. Ord. OncuipEx.—Tribe VanpEZ. 
Genus Catasetum, Rich. ; (Benth. et Hook. F. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 551.) 
Catasetum Garnettianum ; pumilum, pseudobulbis ovoideis demum fusiformi- 
bus vaginatis, foliis lanceolatis acuminatis 3-nervlis, racemis erectis 
paucifloris foliis longioribus, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis ovariis pedicellatis 
multo brevioribus, perianthio fuseo-purpureo albo-fasciato, sepalis oblongo- 
lanceolatis acutis concavis lateralibus deflexis dorsali petalisque erectis, 
labello lineari albo dorso medium versus gibboso, marginibus infra 
medium apiceque truncato ciliis longis crassis patentibus pectinato, 
columna elongata pallide virescente rubro-punctulata apice incurva. 
C. Garnettianum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1888, vol. ii. p. 692. 
In habit and floral characters this species has, as Mr. 
Rolfe remarks, strong affinities with C. barbatum (My- 
anthus barbatus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1778), and especially 
to its var. proboscoideum, Lindl. 1.¢. 1841, t. i es Jes 
From both it differs in the much paler flowers with broad 
bars of brown-purple on the sepals and petals. In the 
true barbatum the scape is red brown, the sepals and petals 
green spotted with purple, the lip is shorter, of a dirty 
rose colour, and fringed all round with cilia, and the back 
of the column is blood-red. In var. proboscoideum the 
petals are also green, spotted and partly barred with 
purple, the lip longer than the sepals, green, and its 
margins crinite with long cilia. It is, in fact, almost as 
different from barbatwm true as the latter is from Garnet- 
tianum. ‘Another closely allied species is C. cornutum, 
Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, Mise. No. 182, and 1841, t. 5, 
f. 2, which with the sepals and petals of var. proboscoideum 
has a short triangular green purple-spotted ovate lip, and 
the cilia reduced to stout blunt processes. Still another 
is lanciferum, Lindl. l.c. f. 5, which has the sepals and 
petals of cornutum, and a lip approaching in shape to 
that of C. Garnettianum, but green, broader at the base, 
Auveust 1st, 1889. 
