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* CATASETUM liiridum. 

 Lurid Catasetum. 



GYNANDRIA MOl^ANBRIA. 



Nat. ord. OrchidEjE. Juss. § Vandese Lindl. (Introduction to the 

 Natural System of Botany, p. 262). 



CATASETUM. Supra, vol. 10,/o/.840. 



C. luridum ; caulibus defoliatis angustis sulcatis, perianthio subgloboso parum 

 maculate, sepalis petalisque oblongls apice rotundatis, labello cucullato car- 

 noso mutico apice paulo producto truncato, racemo brevi nutante. 



C. luridum. Lindl. Gen. Sf Sp. Orch. p. 156. 



Anguloa lurida. Link in Verhandl. des Vereins. z. bef. des Gartenb. in dem 

 Konigl. Preuss. Staat. I. p. 289. t. 6. 



Cavles dejlorati angusd, cinerei, sulcati, 3-5 uncias longi. Folia pli- 

 cata, suhundulata, acuminata. Racemus vix pedalis, apice nutans, pauci- 

 fiorus ; bracteis hrevibus canaliculatis obtusis. Perianthium globosum ; se- 

 palis petalisque herbaceis oblongis apice rotundatis maculis quibusdam pal- 

 lidas notatis. Labellum carnoswm, cucullatum, lutcscens, antice truncatum 

 subemarginatum, mnrginibus atro-purpureis maculatis, nee ciliatis, nee den- 

 tatis, nee injiexis. Coluinna bicirrhosa generis. 



After having been imported into Prussia some years since, 

 and been apparently lost, this rare plant has suddenly made 

 its appearance almost at the very same time in several col- 

 lections. The first notice we had of it was from Messrs. 

 Loddiges, with whom it flowered in September, 1833. Al- 

 most immediately afterwards, it was communicated to us by 

 our amiable and much lamented correspondent the late 

 Mrs. Arnold Harrison, whose truly splendid collection of 

 Orchideous epiphytes has lately been added to the stock of 

 Mr. Knight, of the King's Road ; it was obtained by that 

 lady from Bahia. We had scarcely secured a drawinp- of 

 Mrs. Harrison's specimen, before a sketch and specimens 

 reached us from Mr. Bateman ; and before many more days 



* A name, the meaning of which is unexplained. 



