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of the true C. Eyertonianum appeared, and the fact that a similar 
confusion had led Darwin to the erroneous belief that there were 
three sexual forms of Catasetum, suggested the inference. These 
conclusions were published (Gard. Chron. 1892, xi. pp. 204, 205), 
when it occurred to me to write to Mr. Bateman, who was still 
living, and who replied that he remembered the circumstance 
perfectly, and the commotion it caused, but could not recollect 
exactly how the drawing was made, though with regard to all the 
circumstances mentioned he was inclined to concur in the suggested 
explanation. “As to the withered flowers,” he added, “ they 
onfirmation of this view came about three years later. In the 
autumn of 1894 a living plant of a Cycnoches was received from 
the late Mr. Ricardo Pfau, of Costa Rica, and in the following 
spring a young growth appeared on the top of the old pseudo- 
bulb, which was taken off and potted, and the two plants were 
Srown on side by side. In April, 1895, one of them produced 
a long raceme of purple flowers, which were identical with 
C. Fgertonianum, Batem., while in June two green flowers, 
which it had been a parent for some time were females, oe 
on the other plant (Rolfe in Orch. Rev. 1895, p. 233). One of 
these flowers is represented in the annexed figure (fig. 4), and a 
glance will show how distinct it is from the male of C. ventricosum 
P. Egerton, Oct. 1849.” The male of C. Eyertonianum is purple, 
much smaller than the other sex, and of totally different shape 
(fig. 3). The figures are approximately natural size. amates 
Two other female Cycnoches have since appeared in cultivation, 
1909, p. 63), from a plant in the collection of the Rev. J. 
Fletcher, Mundham Vicarage, Chichester, which recently produced 
THE SECTIONS OF CYCNOCHES. 
It is unfortunate that the flowers produced by Bateman’s plant 
were not preserved, for had this been the case the error would have 
been detected earlier. In 1891 I had indicated that the genus 
contained two distinct sections, one in which the two sexes were 
very similar in the perianth, the other in which they were very 
diverse (Gard. Chron, 1891, x. pp. 69, 70), though I then failed = 
detect the confusion between C. ventricosum an actoniGee 
and enumerated them as sexes of the same species. A few months 
