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dull, velvety olive-green, and the lip yellowish wliite with a 

 few reddish brown spots. Native of Brazil. 



Tlie section Heteranthoe, so-called because of the great 

 diversity between the flowers of the two sexes, comprises 

 about nine known species as follows : 



7. C. Egertoniauni. Female flowers dull olive-green, in shape 



radiating- clavate fleshy appendages. The segments are pur- 

 ple-brown, or blotched with that color on a green ground. 

 Native of South Mexico and Central America. This is said to 

 sport into C. ventricosum, an error which arose from the 

 females of C. Egertonianum having been wrongly identified 

 with that species. 



Fig. IS- — Symplocos crat^egoides.— See page 90. 



like those of the previous section, solitary or borne in pairs on 

 a short suberect raceme. IVIales much smaller, more mem- 

 branous, and borne in long, pendulous racemes. The lip is 

 reduced to a small, round disk, surrounded by a number of 



8. C. Diance. A Central American species, closely 'allied 

 to the preceding, of which the males only are known. They 

 are crimson spotted with brown, and a white lip.J^It is only 

 known from dried specimens. 



