506 Lindli'i/s Ladies' Botany. 



grows very slowly, and seems indisposed to make more than one 

 shoot in a year, or than one shoot at a time." {Bat cm. Oc/iid., 

 Part I.) 



2530. CATASE'TUM [D p.r.w Batem. Ocliiil., t. 2. 



•maciilatum Auh/A sTjioiteA-Jlowered ^ tZ3 or 3 ... G. spotted with P. New Grenada 1836 



Originally discovered by Humboldt, near the town of Turbaco, 

 in New Grenada (and at that time it was the only catasetum 

 known); but Mr. Skinner, who met with it on the eastern coast 

 of Nicaragua, has the merit of having introduced it into this 

 country. " Nothing can be easier to cultivate than the different 

 species of Catasetum : they flower profusely alike under damp 

 or dry, under hot or cold, treatment; perhaps, however, they 

 attain their greatest vigour if subjected during the summer to a 

 powerful moist heat, with a plentiful supply of water ; but in the 

 winter they should be kejit tolerably dry." (Balcm. Orchid.^ 

 Part I.) 



23J0((. ( VCNO'CHES [Batem. Orchid., t. 5. 



*vcntric5sum .B«to«. ventricose-//7J/;f(f £ E] or 2 ... G.W Guatemala ? 1835 D p.r.w 



" The genus Cycnoches was founded by Professor Lindley, 

 upon a remarkable plant from Surinam (C. Loddigesii), the 

 sepals and petals of which bore as close a resemblance to the 

 expanded wings of a swan, as did the column to the long arching 

 neck of the same graceful bird ; and these peculiarities are well 

 expressed in the term Cycnoches (swan-neck). For upwards of 

 four years, the genus had consisted of only a solitary species ; 

 when a second made its appearance in the person of C. ven- 

 tricosum, which was discovered in the neighbourhood of Istapa, 

 by Mr. Skinner." {Batem. Orchid., Part I.) 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Ladies' Dolnny ; or, a familiar Introduclion to the Study of 

 the Natural System of Botany. Vol.11. By John Lindley, Pli.D., 

 F.R.S., &C-, Professor of Botany in the University College, London. 



After the favourable reception which the public have given 

 to the first volume of Dr. Lindley's Ladies' Botany, it having 

 already gone through three editions, it seems unnecessary to say 

 more respecting the second volume, than that it is executed on 

 the same i)lan as the first. The number of letters in the first 

 volume was 25; and the volume before us extends the number 

 to 50. The plates are admirably executed, from original draw- 

 ings; and the letterpress is so clear and perspicuous, that no 

 person, from seeing it and referring to the plates, can have the 

 slijjhtest difTiculty in making out the author's meaning. This 

 work will do more towards diff'using a general taste for botany, 

 and of that kind of knowledge of plants which consists in know- 

 ing .something more of them than merely their names, than any 

 oilier work that ever was published^ It cannot be sufficiently 



