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( 3601 ) 
MoNACHANTHUS DIScoLor: £. viridiflorus. 
Diney Monk-F.tower: Green-flowered var. 
SEEK KEKE KEKE EEE KEE EE 
Class and Order. 
GyNANDRIA MonanprliA. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEx. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium explanatum. Sepala et petala zqualia, de- 
orsum versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, 
ventricosum, sepalis multo majus. Columna brevis, crassa, 
mutica. Anthera et pollinia Cataseti—Epiphyte Cataseti 
habitu. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Monacuantuus* discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello 
hemispherico marginibus planis medio fimbriatis. 
Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1735. 
(8.) viridiflora ; floribus viridibus. (Tab. Nostr. 3601.) _ 
(y.) Bushnani ; floribus viridi-fulvis, labello minus fimbri- 
ato. (Tab. Nostr. 3601. fig. A.) 
Like so many of the epiphytal Orchidee the present 
Species is probably liable to considerable variation. Three 
plants of it, received at different times from Demerara, 
where it is a native, have all proved different in colour and 
Somewhat in the shape of the flowers. i:-. The original 
M. discolor of Dr. Linptey, with the lip and sepals dingy 
Steen, the petals purple. 2. The plant here figured, re- 
ceived at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, amongst a splendid 
Set of other Epipnyres, by favour of _— INVERARITY, pg 
this 
* From Movaé, a monk, and asbos, a flower, so called from the cowl-like 
labellum of the original species. 
