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PL. CDEXXAVIL 
CATASETUM STUPENDUM coen. 
THE ASTONISHING CATASETUM. 
CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, vol. I, p. 59. 
Catasetum stupendum. Foliis elongatis, oblongo-spathulatis acutiusculis, inferne longe attenuatis; scapo erecto 
paucifloro; floribus amplis, longiuscule pedicellatis; sepalis membranaceis, anguste lanceolatis, acutissimis, margine 
involutis, dorsali erecto non incurvo, lateralibus leviter incurvis patentissimis et leviter deflexis ; petalis membranaceis, 
lineari-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, erectis, sepalo dorsali arcte conniventibus; labello carnoso, pendulo, sepalis 
lateralibus paullo breviore, obovato-suborbiculari, apice rotundato, non lobato margine inferna integerrimo lateraliter 
superneque longiuscule inaequaliter fimbriato, limbo satis convexo superne obscure lateque costato supra basin pro- 
fundiuscule angusteque saccato, sacci ore transverse dilatato margine antice posticeque prominente; columna longis- 
sima, crassa, leviter clavata, apice longe rostrata, antennis elongatis divergentibus laevibusque. 
Catasetum stupendum Coan. in Fourn. des Orchid., V1, p. 13 (1895). 
his, one of the many novelties recently introduced, deserves certainly 
attention on account of the size of its flowers, of their distinct colouring 
and strange shape. It flowered for the first time during the last winter 
among the collections of L’Horticutrure INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. 
Like nearly all its congeners, this species is dicecious, and the flowers repre- 
sented on our present plate are the male ones, the female ones being not known 
yet. It belongs to Mr. Rorre’s section Myanthus, and to the first division of that 
section. 
It comes not very near to any species of the same group, although it bears 
some general analogy to C. saccatum Lot., but it will be seen, at a glance on 
the figure of this species (Lindenia, pl. 269), that the differences are numerous, 
the lip notably having a very distinct form in the two species. 
Parmi les nombreuses nouveautés que le genre Catasetum nous a fournies 
dans ces derniers temps, celle-ci est certainement remarquable par les dimensions 
de ses fleurs, par leur coloris spécial et surtout par leur conformation étrange. 
Introduite du Pérou par L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, elle a fleuri l’hiver 
dernier dans les serres de la célébre Société bruxelloise. 
Le C. stupendum a des pseudobulbes coniques, un peu comprimés, hauts de 
dix centimétres, d’un vert clair, couverts des débris des vieilles feuilles, réduites 
a l’état de minces pellicules blanchatres. Feuilles longuement oblongues-spathu- 
lées, un peu aigués, fortement atténuées inférieurement, a 5-7 nervures trés 
saillantes 4 la face inférieure, d’un vert clair, dress¢es avec le sommet un peu 
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