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CATASETUM rripentatoum. 
Tridentate Catasetum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nat. Orv. ORCHIDEZ. 
Gen. Cuar.—Corolla resupinata ; oie — eg labello sac- 
cato-concavum. Columna bico filiformia, arcuato- 
conniventia. Anthera opercalats, chveae eer infra apicem atte- 
a ee ae insidens. Pollinis masse duz, pedicello communi suf- 
h. M. : 
. in Kunth 
Parasiticum. Folia membranacea, ex apice bulbi geese p00 Pedunculi 
radicales, uni- send multiflori, bracteati. § magni. 
ee: Eitan petalis duobus interioribus maculatis, labello 
tride 
Whole lat from a foot and a half to two feet i in height. 
Root composed of many, large, white, thick, smooth fibres. Bulb five or six 
inches in = — subcompressed, covered at first with the sheath- 
ing bases of the leaves, afterwards naked, green, marked with reddish 
rings where the leaves have es inserted, and longitudinally striated. 
considerably 1 the athing of the bulb; these sheaths are 
a more membranaceous texture the leaves themselves, paler 
aps and Pies closely striat 
S from the root by the side of the bulb, _< ve or fourteen inches 
in beg cylindrical, green, jointed, and furni oe hort membra- 
sheaths, which are slit on one side, 
ceolate, concave the two inner rat are hrosdly ovate, concave, 
subacuminate, re gre thet gun spotted with Lip 
large, cucullate, — its margin except in font, where 
there are three teeth, the Leet ‘faintly and obliquely striated ; 
its colour is a Scie; yellow, "greenish at the summit; there are some- 
times a few very indistinct purple spots within. Column united by its 
base with the back of the lip, an inch long, curved forward, yellow, the 
back convex, the front concave, its extremity egg y acuminated, and 
having a little claw-like penetes, at the very point. From the ig or 
cesse: 
placed within the lip. Sree concave, 8 aiaaaicate, viscid. Anther rope 
culiform (deckdntsaz\, and applied to ‘the upper attenuated one 
sna lanceolate, peg having i at its <a 
Cells containing each a large, page era siate, Cee. at 
back, united by their bases to an oblong, bro fownlih footstalk, whose mar- 
gins are = and whose base is fixed upon a thick a aren, 
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