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* M0NACHANTHU8 discolor. 



Dingy Monk-flower. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDIUA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^, § Vande^, Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p. 262.) 



MONACHANTHUS. Pcrianthium explanatum. Sepala et pefala 

 deorsilm versa. Labellum posticum, carnosum, indivisum, vcntricosum, sepalis 

 multo majus. Columnahrevh, crassa, mutica. Aiithera et Pollinia Cataseti. 

 — Epiphyta Cataseti habitu. Ge7iera et Sj). Orch. 157. 



M. discolor; racemo laxo multifloro, labello hemispherico marginibus planis 

 medio fimbriatis. 



Epiphyta, pseudobulbls 3-poll. longis, oblongis, teretilms, leviter corru- 

 gatis, cicatricibus foUorum annulatis. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, plicata. 

 Racemus cylindraceus, laxus, multiflorus, spithamam longus. Sepala line- 

 aria, obtusa, rejlexa, viridi-fusca. Petala recta, conformia,fusco-jnirpurea. 

 Labellum posticum, cucullattim , acutum, carnosum, viridi-purpureum, intus 

 viridi-luteum, margine refiexo viediofimbriato, Columna brevis, viridi-lutea, 

 mutica, stigmatis excavati margine inferiore co7ivexo prominente, lateralibus 

 deorsum productis. 



A very rare plant in Demerara, whence Mr. Bateman 

 received a single bulb by his collector, Mr. Colley. We are 

 enabled to figure it by means of a specimen from the collec- 

 tion at Knypersley, which we received in November last. 



Although not handsome, this is an interesting plant, as 

 confirming the genus Monachanthus, which before consisted 

 of but a single species found in the Brazils, of which we shall 

 give a figure in some future number of this work. It diflfers 

 from M. viridis in the number of the flowers, in their colour, 

 and especially in the form of the lip, which looks more like 

 an old rusty iron scull-cap, than any thing else we can com- 

 pare it to. 



* Monks flower, whicb is the meaning of this generic name, will not be consi- 

 dered unapplicable, when you compare the labellum of the original species to a 

 cowl. 



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