1752 



* MONACHANTHUS viridis. 

 Green-flowered Cowlwort. 



GYNANDRIA MQ-NANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^e § Vande.e, Juss. (^Introduction to the Natural 

 Systein of Botany, p. 262.) 



MONACHANTHUS.—Supra, vol. 20. fol. 1735. 



M. viridis ; racemo multifloro, labello oblongo cuspidato margiiie lasvi, sepalis 

 petalisque rigidis ovatis. 



M. viridis, Lindl. Gen. ^- Sp. Orch.p. 157. 



Planta /acie omnino Cataseti tridentati quo foliis et caiile tantum con- 

 venit ut Jioribus ademptis eandem diceres. Flores carnosi, herhacei, lahelli 

 marcfine vitellino. Sepala ovata, acuta, rigida, petalis parallela. Petala 

 conformia, sed latiora et maculis quibusdam purinireis obscuris notata. 

 Labellum posticmn ventricosuni, carnosum, \h~poll. longum, ore obliquo 

 IcEvi cuspidato. Columna brevis, ovata, carnosa, mutica. 



This is the original species on which the genus Mona- 

 chanthus was founded. In habit it is so like Catasetum tri- 

 dentatum that we long doubted whether it ought to be gene- 

 rically separated. The absence of the long tendril-like 

 processes, which are so conspicuous upon the column of 

 Catasetum, was, however, so remarkable a circumstance, 

 that we came to the conclusion that it must be an essentially 

 distinct form ; and the discovery of the curious Monachanthus 

 discolor, figured at tab. 1735, has shewn that w^e judged 

 correctly. 



A native of Brazil, growing upon trees in the Corcovado, 

 whence Dr. Hooker received the drawing and specimen 

 which first made the genus known. Our figure was made 

 from a specimen communicated last November from Went- 



* Sec fol. 1735. 



