lip is light green, spotted with the same dark colour ; above 

 the base it is hollowed out ; above the hollow it is furnished 

 with a strong- inflexed white horn, which rises from a some- 

 what rugged base ; and the margin is broken up into slender 

 stiff processes, which are evidently an incomplete state of the 

 fringes found on the lip of Catasetum cristatum, &c. It was 

 imported by Messrs. Loddiges. 



Fig. 3. CATASETUM barbatum, rar.proboscideum. 

 Long-beaked Catasetum. 



C. proboscideum ; labello deflexo multifido : laciniis filiformibus laceris, co- 

 lumna. apice proboscidiformi : cirrhis deflexis columna longioribus. Bot. 

 Reg. 1839. misc. no. 140. 



I had unadvisedly supposed that this plant was a new 

 species ; and it is perhaps as much entitled to such a cha- 

 racter as some others about which no doubt has hitherto been 

 raised. But I confess my inability, upon a formal examina- 

 tion of it, to distinguish it specifically from C. barbatum. It 

 is however a different looking plant, owing to the beard of 

 the lip being green and not pink. Mr. Wailes of Newcastle 

 received it from Dr. Gardner, who found it growing on a 

 small species of Palm near Sertao. I have also received it 

 from the Hon. and Very Reverend the Dean of Manchester. 



Fig. 4. CATASETUM laminatum, var. eburneum. 

 White-lipped Knife-blade Catasetum. 



C. laminatum. Sertum Orchidacewn, t. 30. 



/3. eburneum; labello eburneo columna, petalisque immaculatis. Ibid. 



The original C. laminatum, figured in the Sertum Orchi- 

 daceum, had its lip and petals spotted with purple. This, 

 which is a mere variety, is remarkable for a total absence of 

 spots from those parts, and for its lip being a pure ivory 

 white. Both varieties were sent from Mexico to the Horti- 

 cultural Society by Mr. Hartweg. 



Fig. 5. CATASETUM lanciferum. 



Lance-bearing Catasetum. 



C. lanciferum ; petalis maculatis lineari-lanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi 

 suppositis, labello subcordato-ovato fimbriato basin versus saccato 

 sub sacco cornu tripartita instructo, sub apice lamina lineari-lanceolata 

 aucto, columnse cirrhis vix columna longioribus. 



A Brazilian species, for which I am indebted to the Hon. 

 and Very Reverend Wm. Herbert. It was collected by Dr. 

 Gardner in Brazil, and is perhaps a variety of C. barbatum ; 

 but it is very different in its lip. 



