Tail 7158. 

 OATASETUM piwbriatum. 



Native of Brazil. 



"Nat Ord. Ohchide^:. — Tribe Van ni:/i;. 

 Genus Oatasetum, L. C. Rick.; (Bentk. et. Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 551.] 



Catasetum finibriatum ; foliis 10-12-pollicaribus lanceolatis acuminatis, racemo 

 pendulo multifloro, bracteis lanceolatis, pedicellis 1— \\ pollicaribus, 

 sepalis albis roseo creberrime fasciolatis, dorsali erecto lineari acuminato 

 concavo, lateralibus sub labio deflexis lanceolatis acuminatis marginibus 

 revolutis, petalis oblanceolatis sepalis sequilongis et concoloribus, labello 

 amplo lato flabelliforrai margine anteriore recurvo pectinatim fimbriato, 

 disco antice in processum dentiformem producto medio concavo sac- 

 culum calcariforme latum conicam obtusum formante albo lateribus 

 prope basin utrinque rubro fasciolatis, columna alba rubro-punctata in 

 rostrum acuminatum producta, cirrhis breviusculis deflexis. 



C. finibriatum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. i. p. 124, cum Ic. Xyl. 84 ; 



Walp. Ann. vol. vi. p. 569; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, ii. p. 406. 

 Myanthus fimbriatus, Morten in Ann. de Gand., vol. iv. (1848), p. 453, t. 232. 



G. finibriatum has been long in cultivation on the Con- 

 tinent and in this country. It was exhibited (and won 

 a gold medal it is said) at the Brussels National Horti- 

 cultural Exhibition of 1848, by Madame Legrelle, who 

 introduced it from Brazil, and it was shortly afterwards 

 figured in the Annates de Gand, and in Paxton's Maga- 

 zine. According to the Belgian reports it excited extra- 

 ordinary attention "pendant trois jours plus de 100,000 

 yeux se fixerent sur cette etrange et admirable gynandre, 

 dont le parfum enibaumait la salle." Upon which Lindley 

 sententiously remarks, " In this country people would 

 hardly have remarked it." 



Reichenbach has described (Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. 1, 

 p. 498) a variety of it (var. fissum), grown by Makoy, of 

 Liege, as having a deeper divided lip, and toothed petals 

 spotted with purple on a light ground. This variety has 

 recently been figured in the Revue de I'llort. Beige (vol. 

 xiv. 1888, p. 273), and described by Count O. de Kerchove ; 

 but except in the dark red brown scape and rachis of the 



Febklary 1st, 1891. 



