CATASETUM. 



ORCHIDES. 669 



Flowers about 30 in a spike, with a brown stain upon the lip. Very distinct. Comm. 

 by Mr. Rigby of the Stanhope Nursery, old Brompton. 



Perigonium viride, labelium medio brunneum basi albidum. 



Trop. America. 



Huc : Cyimpcdium Socco Fl. Flum. IX. 65. 



16. CATASETUM FIWBRIATUM Lindl. Paxt. Fl. G, I. 124. Xyl. 84. {Myanthus fimbrialus 

 Morr. Ann. Gand. 231) : 



Racemo cernuo multifloro, sepalis petalisque linearibus acuminatis, 

 lateralibus longioribus, labello plano cordato membranaceo dentato vel 

 basi saccato conico, dente prominente in discum. 



Habit of Catasetum cernuum. It is said to have obtained an e.xtra gold medal at 

 the national Hort. Exhib. at Brussels 18i8, when ..pendanl trois jours plus de 100000 

 yeux se fixerent sur cetle ^trange et admirable gynandre , dont le parfum erabaumail 

 la salle". — In this country people would have hardjy remarked it. 

 Two varieties: green and white ; rose and yellow. 



17. CATASETUM TRIODON Rchb. fil. in Otto Hamb. Gartenztg. 1857. 313. 



18. CATASETUM DELTOIDEUM Lindl. B. Reg. XXVII. 1840. Misc. 157. Huc: Myanthus 

 delloideus Lindl. B. Reg. 1896 : 



Labello imberbi sagittato triangulari, angulis posticis rotiindatis apice 

 dilatato calloso margine recurvo basi tuberculato. 



British Guiana. — Hook. Bot. Mag. 3923. Sepala et tepala viridia brunneo guttala. 

 Labellum disco viride, violaceo maculatum, lobi laterales violacei. 



19. CATASETUM LANCIFERUM Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXVII. 1841. 5. fig. 5: 



Petalis raaculatis linearilanceolatis sepalo dorsali conformi suppo- 

 sitis, labello subcordato ovato fimbrialo basin versus saccato sub sacco 

 cornu tripartito instructo', sub apice lamina iineari-lanceolata aucto, co- 

 lumnae cirrhis vix columna longioribus. 



A Brazllian species, for which I am indebled to ihe Hon. and Very Rev. Wm. 

 Herbert. Coll. by Gardner in Brazil. Var. of barbatum. but very different in its lip. 



Sepalum supremum ct tepala rosea, sepala lateralia violacea , columna albido 

 virens, labellum albidum. medio flavum. 



Bot. Reg. XXX. 1844. Misc. 40. Very like C. cristatum. but the margin only of the 

 lip is broken up into fringes ; and at ihe point is a broad lancet-shaped spine. 



20. CATASETUM (MYANTHUS) CORNUTUM Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXVI. Misc. 182. XXVH. 

 5. flg. 2: 



Petalis maculalis lineari-lanceolatis, sepalo dorsali conformi suppo- 

 sitis, labello subcordato ovato basin versns saccato supra saccum cornu 

 valido inflexo instructo, processibus terelibus rigidis fimbriato, basi den- 

 tato, columnae aciiminatae cirrhis cornu labelli attingentibus. 



Demerara. With ihe habit of Catasetum barbatum, 16 and more flowers in a raceme 

 of dull green. richly 8|>otted with deep blackish purple. The lip is light green, 

 spoited wiih ihe same dark colour; abovd the base it is hollowed oui; above the 

 hollow it is furnished with a slrong inflexed white horn, which rises from 

 a somewhat r^igged base; and Ihe margin is broken up into slender sliff processes, 

 which are evidently an incompletc stale of the fringes found on the lip of Catasetum 

 cristatum, barbatum. 



21. CATASETUM CRISTATUM Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 966. B. R. XXX. Misc. 40: 



Foliis oblongo lanceolalis, perianthiis explanatis, sepalo supremo pe- 

 talisque connivenlibus, labello fimbriato crislatoque expanso cristae piiis 

 crassis lucidis compressis obtusissimis emarginatisque simplicibus. 

 Brazil. 



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