[PLATE 75.] 
THE GOLDEN SWAN-ORCHIS. 
(CYCNOCHES AUREUM.) 
A noble Epiphyte, with clear yellow flowers, from CENTRAL America, belonging to ORCHIDS. 
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Specific Character. 
| CYCNOCHES AUREUM ; racemo longo pendulo com- 
| pacto, sepalis lanceolatis planis, petalis conformibus ab 
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THE GOLDEN SWAN-ORCHIS. Raceme long, pendu- 
lous, compact. Sepals lanceolate, flat. Petals of the same 
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short stalk, at the end ovate and acute, with a round disk disci rotundati margine in processubus brevibus arcuatis 
the edge of which is broken up into short curved pro- apice fureatis soluto : 2 basilaribus majoribus discretis 
rectis, eolumná labelli longitudine. 
T°, the very singular race of Swan-Orchises, we have now the gratification of adding a new form, 
introduced from Central America by Mr. Skinner. Tt is very near the “ Spotted,” from which it 
differs in having a shorter and more compact raceme, whole-coloured pale clear yellow flowers, and a 
lip the terminal lobe of which is short and ovate, not long and linear-lanceolate, while the append- 
ages into which the edge of the disk is broken up are short, forked, all radiating from the centre, 
instead of the uppermost one being bent back, and the two lowest are very considerably larger than 
the others, 
Is this a species? or is it a form of C. maculatum, or of some other of this masquerading genus ? 
Upon this subject we venture to repeat what was said six years ago in the Botanical Register, upon 
the surprising transformations to which the Swan-Orchises are subject, and concerning which we 
have no more information than we had in 1846. "The plant to which the remarks applied was the 
green state of the Egertonian Swan-Orchis. 
“This is evidently a variety of the C. Fgertonianum, distinguished by its flowers being of a pale watery 
green, and not deep purple. But what is C. Egertonianum itself? In Mr. Bateman’s magnificent 
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