572 ORCHIDES. 



CATASETDM. 



pierced in the middle by a narrow aperture , whicb leads into a conical chomber 

 or bag, whicb is not observed till tbe back of the iip is tumcd up. Lodd. obtained 

 it from Guayana. 



Lindl. Sert. Orchidaceum 1841. tab. 41: Foliage as in others. Flower stems 12 — 

 15' liigh, 7—8 flowered. Flowers full 4" diam : at first erect. benl down lowards the 

 point. Sepals lanceolate equal, spreoding, inside deep purple, spotted with yellow, 

 outside tinged wilh yellow. Petals of thc same form and nearly the same size , but 

 are ihinner in texture , more spolted with yellow, and at flrst form an arch over 

 ihe column, but after the flower has been for some time expanded, they spread back 

 even more than the dorsal sepal. The lip is of a most irregular form and rich 

 yellow, thickly sprinkled with crimson dots; in form it is roundish ovate . wiih a 

 contraction on each side, and a gradual tapering to thepoint; ali round it isbordered 

 by long fringes ; in ihe middle is a callous perforation , kidney shaped in front, 

 slightly lobed and warted at the back ; tbis perforation opens into a small bag-shaped 

 chambcr, which projects below the underside of ihe lip. At flrst the lip is flat; but 

 it soon turns back at the point , so that at last it is bent in the middle at almost a 

 right angle and hides the conical chamber aiready described. 



Huc : Catasetum {Myanlhus) incurium Kloizsch in Otto und Dieirich Allg. Gartzg. 

 1854. 178 : 



Psendobulbis magnis cylindricis fusiformibus articulatis, foliis 



racemo paucifloro pseiidobul.bum paululum superante, perigonii foliolis 

 exterioribus patenti incurvis virescenti fuscis anguste lanceolalis acu- 

 minatis, margine involutis, interioribus brevioribus viridi purpurascenti- 

 bus striclis erectis, margine recurvis; labello saccalo ovato acuminuto 

 flavoviridi, infra apicem obsoletissime bilobo, antice purpureo macuialo, 

 inarginibus Jateralibus acute dentatis magis deflexis; columnae cirrhis 

 vix columna longioribus. 



Peru. Warscewicz. Matthieu. 



Es leidel keinen Zweifel , dass die Bluthenforra, namentiich ilie Form des Label- 

 lums, so sehr von der ailer ubrigen Arten abweicht, dass die Aufsteliung einer neuen 

 Species , die im Sysiem zwischen Catasetum saccatum und Calasetum callosum zu 

 stehen kommt, durchaus gerechtfertigt erscheint. 



Huc : Catasetum inctirvum Kloizch Gard. Chronicle 1855. 4. c. Xyi. : 

 Whether it is a monster, as it well may be, or merely a gigantic form of C.sacca- 

 tum itself, we are unable to say. No one indeed in the present state of knowledge 

 can pretend to form a positive opinion as lo what are natural, what monsirous, whai 

 permanent , what accidentai states of the genus Catasetum. The best service that 

 can in ihe meanwhile be rendered to science, Is to pubiish flgures of the flowers 

 of as many forms, lorvae, species, or whatever they may prove to be as appear to be 

 different from- each otlicr. 



Lord Bishop of Winchester. v. Warscewicz. 



28. CATASETUM TABULARE Lindl. Boi. Reg. XXX. 1840. Misc, 40. pag. 35: 



Vegelalione, 'sepalis pelalisque omnino C. laminati, labello oblongo 



anlice concavo basi cornulo fimbrialo exlus sub apice lineis serrulatis 



elevatis striato secus medium crista labulari Iiita transversa corrugata 



antice dentata aucto. 

 Granada. 



This is very like the Guatemala C. laminaium. but the structure of the lip is dif- 

 fcrent. In place of ihe thin knife-like crest of thot specics, thcre is a broad raiscd ob- 

 long flcshy lable of a yeliowish brown colour , closcly wrinkied across and broken 

 up into asperities , which , at the front of the lable where it forms a Kind of cliff ab- 

 ove ihe lip are extended into strong teeth. On the outside of the lip near the poini 



