CATASETUM MACROCARPUM. 
[PLaTE 189. ] 
Native of Tropical South America. 
Epiphytal. Stems oblong, fusiform, three to four inches long, with a crown of 
leaves at the apex. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, acute, nervose, narrowed into 
a stalk-like portion, and then dilated at the base so as to sheath the stem, on 
which they leave annular scars when they fall away. Scape radical, drooping, 
bearing a few showy blossoms of singular form. lowers of large size, stalked, 
fleshy in texture, at first sight suggestive of those of a Paphinia from the peculiar 
and well-marked spotting; sepals lanceolate acuminate, two and a half inches long, 
the lateral ones somewhat falcate and widely spreading, pale greenish yellow, almost 
entirely covered with chocolate-brown spots, the general arrangement of which is m 
transverse lines; petals oblong acuminate, nearly an inch broad, broader than the 
sepals, the ground colour pale greenish, spotted over like the sepals, but with rather 
larger spots of brown, more or less concave, turned back so as to lie parallel with 
the dorsal sepal; tip an inch and a half across, cucullate, ie, deeply hollowed 
into a bluntly cone-shaped form, three lobed, the lobes triangular, golden yellow 
inside, spotted with crimson, deep yellow, but more lightly spotted near the edge 
on the outer surface, the blunt apex of the cone green, and more or less spotted. 
Column ligulate, with a horn-like point, pale yellow, bearing a pair of cirrhi directed 
towards the lip, spotted with crimson on the outer surface. 
CaTaseTuM MacrocarpuM, Richard, in Kunth’s Synopsis, i., 331; Humboldt, | 
Bonpland, and Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plantarum, vii., 631; Reichenbach 
Ju., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, vi., 564. 
CATASETUM TRIDENTATUM, Hooker, Exotic Flora, tt. 90, 91; Jd., Botanical 
Magazine, t. 3329; Sims, Botanical Magazine, t. 2259. 
Catasetum Cuiavertnem, Loddiges, Botanical Cabinet, t. 1344. 
The subject that we now propose to introduce to the pages of our Album is _ 
one belonging to a most peculiar genus—a genus, moreover, that is not much 
sought after by cultivators in general. We trust, however, that by bringing forward 
‘the accompanying beautiful representation of one of these plants the attention of our 
readers will be attracted towards it, and that, as a consequence, the species may 
become more generally known and more widely cultivated, as they well deserve to be, 
by others besides those growers who take an interest in almost all classes of the 
Orchid family. Our plate was taken from a well-grown specimen in the possession 
of W. McDonald, Hsq., of Woodlands, Perth, whose fine collection is well known. 
Catasetum macrocarpum is a deciduous plant, losing its leaves when the growth 
_ W completed. It has broadish plaited light green foliage, which grows about a foot 
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