Register, referred to Myantuus, without any allusion to its 
exceedingly close affinity with his Carasrrum cristatum, a 
similarity so great, that I was at first disposed to consider 
our plant with a white lip the same species, differing chiefly 
in being furnished with a spur or tooth-like process at the 
base of the lip. The two plants are indeed, I doubt not, 
specifically distinct ; but they cannot be separated generi- 
cally, and perhaps Professor Linney will agree with me in 
thinking, that Myanruus should only form a section of 
CaTasEtum. 
Our kind friend, Mr. Atucarp, imported the plant here 
figured, from Demerara ; and it blossomed in his collection 
at Stratford Green, Essex, in the month of May, of the 
present year (1836). The flowers, when the box was open- 
ed which contained the specimen, yielded an odour very 
similar to that of Juniper Berries. 
Descr. Bulb ovate, sheathed with large, broad, striated 
scales, which, in the upper part, bear several distichous 
obovato-lanceolate, striated and somewhat plaited, mem- 
branous leaves, tapering at the base. Scape arising from 
the base of the bulb, in our specimen at once drooping, 
ring a many-flowered raceme, green below, dark purple 
above. Flowers spreading. Petals and sepals narrow- 
oblong, grooved, dark green, spotted with dark purple 
within, with paler spots on the outside. The upper sepal 
and two petals meet together in a nearly erect position 
above the column ; the two lateral sepals, at first patent, 
become eventually singularly deflexed. Colwmn elongated, 
semiterete, greenish-brown, with a long, acuminated point, 
beneath which the anther is lodged : in front, one on each 
side the stigma, are two deflexed sete. Lip deflexed, shorter 
than the sepals, linear-oblong, with a short, pale greenish- 
brown sack a little above the middle, fringed with numerous 
long, upright, white, fleshy hairs; in the disk, at the base, 
is a long, white, curved, fleshy, horn-like process. Anther- 
case with a long, acuminated point. Pollen-masses as in 
Cataserum. Germen clavate, dark purple. 
Fig. 1. Column and Lip. 2. Anther-case. 3, and 4. Pollen-masses : 
magnified. 
