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female, while the smaller and more numerous flowers on the ong 
raceme (cut short in the figure), and which have a much divided lip, 
are male.” It is not, however, the C. Warscewiczii of Reichenbach. 
9 a plant of Cycnoches pentadactylon, Lindl. in the 
collection of Mr. E. Gotto, The Logs, Hampstead Heath, pro-~ 
duced flowers of both sexes, and a figure of each was published 
(Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. p- 188, fig. 26). 
In 1891 a new species was described from the collection of Mr. 
H. J. Ross, of Florence, under the name of C, Rossianum, Rolfe 
(Gard. Chron. 1891, ix. p. 466). It had been purchased under the 
name of C. Warscewiczii, and had flowered on various occasions 
before January, 1889, when a female flower was produced and was 
sent to Kew for determination. Its origin was not known at the 
time, but the subsequent production of male flowers aud the dis- 
covery that there was only a single plant of Cycnoches in the 
collection revealed its identity. This was the first species described 
from materials of both sexes. 
In 1891 the female of Cycnoches chlorochilon appeared in two 
different collections. In June of that year M. Houzean de Lehaie, 
Hyon, near Mons, Belgium, sent to Kew male and female flowers 
of a Cycnoches received from Caracas. The male was the well- 
known C. chlorochilon, and though borne on a different plant there 
was little doubt that the female belonged to the same species. 
month later both kinds of flowers appeared in an importation b 
Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, but the three females were in eac 
case borne on separate plants. Shortly afterwards, however, both 
sexes appeared on the same plant in M. Houzeau’s collection, thus 
confirming their specific identity (Rolfe in Gard, Chron. 1891, 
: BP 69, 394). : g 
y this time it had become increasingly evident that some mistake 
had been made with respect to ertonianum, though materials 
were not forthcoming to clear up the mystery of Bateman’s figure, 
which it was now certain showed two different kinds of male flowers 
on the same pseudobulb. Shortly afterwards the receipt of male 
flowers of another species afforded an opportunity for a comparison 
of all the materials available, and a re~perusal of Bateman’s story 
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