Tas. 7502. 
CYCNOCHES Haacn. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuiprx.—Tribe VANDEX. 
Genus Crcnocues, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 552.) 
Crcyocurs Haagii; caule crasso folioso compresso, foliis snbdistichis 6-8-— 
pollicaribus lanceolatis acuminatis basi angustatis laete viridibus, subtus 
pallidioribus carinatis nervis 5-7, vaginis caulinis brevibus levibus, 
racemo axillari breviter pedunculato suberecto 6-7-floro, pedunculo basi 
vaginis brevibus obtusis membranaceis instructo, rachi pedicellisque 
teretibus pallide viridibus, bracteis lanceolatis membranaceis brunneis 
icellis brevioribus, floribus 2-24 poll. latis, sepalis oblongo-ovatis 
obtusiusculis concavis petalisque patulis intus sordide flavo-viridibus extus 
lividis, petalis ovatis subacutis, labello carnoso rotundato subacuto con- 
vexiusculo albo maculis paucis rufis asperso basi cordato saccato, disco 
ad orem sacci tuberculis 2 conniventibus instructo, columna viridi infra 
medium punctulata, anthera parva. 
O. Haagii, Rodrig. Gen. § Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. ii. (1881) p. 221, Ic. ined. 
t. 687. 
The genus Cycnoches, a near ally of Catasetum, now con- 
tains ten or eleven described species, of which four have 
been figured in this magazine (tabs. 3855, 4054, 4215, 
4479). They differ greatly from one another in the size 
and colour of the flower, and especially in the form of 
the lip, but agree in the singular slender arched column, 
and in the structure of the pollinia. All are tropical 
American. 
C. Haagii, which is remarkable for the lurid green of 
its sepals and petals, is a native of the delta of the 
Amazons, and was first described in 1881 by J. Barbosa 
Rodrigues, from specimens procured from the River 
Andira, a tributary of the Amazons in lat. 8° 80’ 8. and 
long. 57° 38’ West. The drawing here given is of a fine 
plant received in May, 1891, from EH. 8. Rand, Esq., of 
Para, to whom the Royal Gardens are indebted for other 
interesting allied Orchids, notably Catasetum Randi (Tab. 
7470) and C. Lemosii (Tab. 7444). It flowered in a tropical 
house for the first time in October, 1892, and again in the 
same month of 1895. 
NovemBek Ist, 1896. 
