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PL. DH-DIII. 
CATASETUM SPECIES and var. NOVAE 
CATASETUM. Vide Lindenia, 1, Pp: 59. 
Catasetum splendens, C. maculatum, C. macrocarpum, C. Bungerothi et variae plantae his speciebus plus minus 
affines, an hybridae inter eas ap. nat. productae. Vide Lindenia, X, PP- 23, 45, 47; 49, 51, 53, 55, 57) 59. — 
Journ, des Orchidées, V, PP- 203, 250, 251, 252, 267, 268, 302, 303, 315, 365. — Inip., VAGSppen la aa. 
i Ppa be Lindenia has already published last year, in nine plates, a selection 
Kees a of most remarkable forms of this wonderful group of Catasetum which 
lucent suddenly revealed itself in the importations sent by the collectors of 
L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE. 
Since then, the new flowerings have revealed still a great number of very 
distinct varieties or natural hybrids and for the most part extremely remarkable. 
The limited space that we have at our disposal does not allow us to have 
a separate plate for each of these plants, in spite of the lively interest that they 
present, we have decided to figure a certain number in a group on a double plate. 
This plate will have, we think, the advantage of facilitating comparisons and 
of giving our readers an idea of the vast comprehension of this group, where 
the transitions are so attenuated that it is extremely difficult to trace the limit 
between the different forms. 
We shall not here return to the views that Mr A. Coenraux has given in 
detail, in the preceding volume, relative to the origin of these different forms and 
to the connexion which exists between them. 
We undertake to denote briefly some of the principal characters of those 
that we figure to day. 
To commence at the bottom of the plate on the left side we find first of all 
a very curious and fine variety of C. splendens remarkably clouded with a red- 
purple on a back ground of whitish cream slightly tinged with green; it is in 
some ways intermediate between the plant described by Mr O’Brien as C. macro- 
carpum var. Lindent and C. Bungerothi. 
The inflorescence which comes next is of great elegance and of a rich golden 
yellow. This plant and likewise the one which occupies the right hand corner on 
the same line are evidently natural hybrids between C. macrocarpum and C. Bun- 
gerotht or C. splendens. The first differs relatively very little from C. maculatum, 
the second is more distinctly intermediate. 
The plant between the two, that we have just mentioned, is C. splendens 
rubrum described by M. A. Coanraux in the Yournal des Orchidées. It is a flower 
of very great attraction, the petals of which are very fine. 
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