CYCNOCHES. 143 



Messrs. Loddiges, in whose nursery it flowered imperfectly shortly 

 afterwards^ but more perfectly in the Horticultural Society's Gardens 

 at Chisvvick and other places two years later. It is the type or 

 species on which the genus was founded ; it has now become very 

 rare if not entirely lost to cultivation. 



0. maculatum. 



Stems and leaves cliaracteristic of the genus. Racemes of male 

 flowers 15 — 18 inches long, deflexed, 5 — 7 or more flowered. Flowers 

 patent, 3 — 4 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals similar and sub. 

 equal, lanceolate, acute, undulate, light yellow-green much spotted with 

 red-purple ; lip white, clawed, the claw grooved, the blade lanceolate 

 acute, with the margins incurved and with 5 — 6 round fleshy, finger- 

 like bristles spotted with purple below the middle. Column slender, 

 curved, greenish yellow spotted with red. 



Cycnoches maculatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 8. Id. Sert. Orch. 

 t. 33. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 561. Illus. Jiort. 1873, t. 143. 



Discovered by Ross in Mexico^ and sent by him to Mr. Barker^ 

 of Birmingham^ in whose collection it flowered in 1839. The male 

 flowers only are known. Like the preceding species it appears at 

 present to be lost to cultivation. 



0. pentadactylon. 



Racemes of male flowers pendulous, many-flowered ; of female, 



erect, few-flowered. Flowers greenish yellow sometimes white, barred 



and blotched with chocolate-brown, parts of the lip white 



spotted with red ; the column purple below the anther. The male 



and female flowers are shown in the accompanying woodcut. These 



convey a far clearer idea of the difi'erence between the two sexes in 



this species than can be done by a description which in the absence 



of materials we are unable to give.* The five curious finger-like 



appendages of the lip of the male flower suggested the specific 



name. 



Cycnoches pentadactylon, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. No. 26 ; and t. 22. 

 Id. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. sub. t. 75. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 561. Rolfe 

 in Gard. Chron. VI. s. 3 (1889), p. 188, with figs. 



Introduced by our Exeter firm in 1811 through William Lobb, who 



detected it in the neighbourhood, of Rio de Janeiro, and shortly 



afterwards re-imported from that city by Messrs Loddio-cs. We find 



of 



jy, wno Kinaiy sent us a llower ; we thought it best, however, to leave the tpvf 

 it is. 



