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CATASETUM TRIFIDUM. 'TRIFID-LIPPED 
CATASETUM. 
REE REE EEE EEE EEK ERE 
Class and Order. 
Gynanpria Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord.— OrcuiveEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium rectum sepius globosum. Labellum sac- 
eatum concavum (raro explanatum), sepalis difforme. 
Columna aptera bicirrhosa, Anthera cornuta bilocularis. 
Pollinia postice biloba, in filo maximo denudato transverso, 
demum elastice contractili, inserta. Lindl. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Carasetum * trifidum: floribus maculatis, petalis duobus 
~ eum sepalo superiore conniventibus, labello patentis- 
simo plano trifido segmentis lateralibus acuminatis 
intermedio crasso obtuso breviore. 
Descr. Our plant consisted of a former year’s leafless, 
oblong, jointed, and striated bulb, or bulb-like stem, from 
the side of which arises a young shoot, with a scarcely bul- 
biform stem, sheathed with two or three scales, and bearing 
four to five elliptico-lanceolate, waved, acuminated, stri- 
ated, and acuminated leaves, bright but pale green above, 
paler and somewhat glaucous beneath. Scape, from the 
base of the stem, nearly a foot and ahalfhigh. Flowers in 
a lax, drooping sptke, large, of lurid green colour, tinged, 
and copiously spotted with purple. Bracteas rather small, 
green, 
* From xara, downwards, and seta, a bristle, from the bristle-shaped 
appendages to the column which point downwards. 
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