Tas. 7470. 
CATASETUM Ranpu (Masc.). 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—Tribe VanDEx. 
Genus Catasetum, Rich.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p.537.) 
Carasetum (Myanthus) Randii (Masc ); pseudobulbis oblongis, foliis oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, scapo ascendente plurivaginato vaginis brevibus 
obtusis, racemo masculo erecto multifloro ; floribus masculis 2% poll. latis, 
sepalis petalisque subconsimilibus patentibus lanceolatis acutis subun- 
dulatis marginibus incurvis pallide viridibus purpureo-macalatis, labello 
parvo infero trilobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus fimbriatis, basi inter lobos 
laterales crista compressa erecta lamellata lamellis fimbriatis instructo, 
lobo terminali angusto lineari porrecto basi dilatato et dorso tumido- 
marginibus fimbriatis, dein integro apice truncato denticulato, 
disco basin versus setis elongatis nicillato, columna clavata tereti, 
antennis deflexis incurvis, anthera longe rostrata, polliniis obovoideis, 
caudicula lineari, glandula orbiculari floribus fom. subglobosis, sepalis 
petalisque oblongis recurvis, labello supero urceolari hemispherico, 
columna brevissima crassa rostrata. 
C. Randii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1894, p. 394; 1895, App. IT. p. 36. 
Mr. Rolfe, who first distinguished and published this 
species, observes that its nearest, and indeed very near 
ally, is (as a reference to the figures at t. 7069 of this maga- 
zine shows) C. Garnettianum, Rolfe, a native also of the 
Amazons. Indeed, except from its much larger size, more 
spotted perianth, and the far more complicated appendages 
of the lip, Randii might be regarded as an exaggerated and 
more highly developed form of Garnettianum, which suggests 
that intermediates connecting them may be discovered. 
The pollinia of the two are identical. Under the above 
cited plate I have described the affinities of Garnettianum 
with its other allies, to which I must refer for information 
on this point in respect of C. Randii. I have in the same 
article given Mr. Rolfe’s sections of the genus Catasetum, 
founded on their sexuality and the position of the lip; where 
these dicecious species with deflexed antenne on the male 
column, an anticous lip of the male, and a posticous lip of 
Apxit Ist, 1896. 
