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CYCNOCHES. 



no record of the appearance of female flowers till a plant in the 

 collection of Mr. Gotto, at The Lodge, Hampstead Heath, produced 

 a raceme of each kind in the summer of 1889; flowers from each 

 was sent to Kew for identification and which are here represented. 

 Cijcnoches pentadactyhn is a very handsome species, well worthy of 

 the attention of amateurs of orchids. 



Cycnoches pentadactylon. a, male ; b, female flower. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



0. versicolor. 



Male Jiuioers : Kacemes pendulous, many-flowered ; bracts ovate, 

 sheathing, ^ inch long, tawny yellow. Flowers 2 — 2|- inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals reflexed and of a peculiar colour difficult 

 to describe, a kind of deep tawny green with a velvety gloss and 

 with close-set longitudinal brown lines ; the sepals narrowly oblong ; the 

 petals broader, elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip fleshy, ovate, acute, with two 

 erect teeth in the centre between which is a deep groove, cream-white 

 witli some red spots in front of the teeth. Column green spotted with 

 brown. 



Cycuoches versicolor, Rchb. in Gard. Cliron. IV. s. 3 (1S88), p. 596. 

 A remarkable species of Brazilian origin. Keichenbach named it 

 from materials sent to him by Sir Trevor Lawrence in 1888, to 

 whom also our obligations are due. The colour of the male flowers 

 is most peculiar; the female flowers we have not seen. 



