Nimmoane. N. O. Orchideze. 
TAB. CLXXVII. 
CATASETUM CRISTATUM; var. monstrosum. 
Monacanthi et Myanthi cristati, proles biformis. Lindl. Bot. 
Reg. t. 1951. 
I had, more than a year ago, expressed my opinion that 
Myanthus could not be distinguished generically from Catasetum, 
and Jam happy to find that the learned author of the former genus 
now not only coincides in that opinion, but also unites his Mona- 
canthus with it. Indeed the very plant upon which this latter 
genus was founded (M. viridis, Bot. Reg. t. 1752), I have long 
known at Wentworth Gardens, and on the first sight of it, I 
mentioned to Mr. Cooper my opinion that it was only a mons- 
trosity of some Catasetum ; nor am I sure that it is not the very 
Species here figured, with all its flowers metamorphosed so 
as to resemble the original Catasetum, having no perfect anther 
and the sets of the column obsolete. Monacanthus discolor 
(Bot. Reg. t. 1735), having perfect flowers and no sete, has a 
better right to be distinguished from Catasetum than M. viridis, 
In regard to the present singular monstrosity, some information 
respecting it was many months back communicated to me by 
Dr. Schomburgk from Demerara, and the specimen was sent to 
Dr. Brown in London. Shortly after, my friend and former 
pupil, Dr. Nimmo, favoured me with the plant here figured, 
preserved in spirits. In the meanwhile a fine specimen flowered 
at Zion House, which Professor Lindley figured in the Botanical 
Register. 
