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CYCNOCHES LODDIGEST inp. 
LODDIGES’ CYCNOCHES. 
CYCNOCHES. Vide Lindenia, VU, p. 209. 
Cycnoches Loddigesi, Sepala viridia apice fusca et obscure maculata, mox rufescentia ; supremum liueari- 
oblongum, arcuatum, 7 1/2 cm. longum, lateralia 5 cm. longa, a basi connata, ovato-oblonga, subundulata, pendula. 
Petala ejusdem coloris cum sepalis, sed minus conspicue maculata, oblongo-lanceolata, inaequilatera, decurva, 6 I/4.cm. 
longa. Labellum potentissimum, cum columna continuum, anguste oblongum, convexum, carnosum, medio album, 
apicem versus tenue, sordide lutescens, undique maculis latis inaequalibus Sanguineis notatum; ungue brevi alato 
maculoso, alis lutescentibus; disco convexo albo. Columna gracilis, arcuata, utrinque clavata, dimidio inferiori atro- 
purpureo, superiore complanato virescente purpureo maculato. Anthera cito decidua. Clinandrium postice bicorne, 
cornubus falcatis supra antheram incurvis. 
Cycnoches Loddigesi LINDL. Bot. Reg., t. 1742. — Bot. Mag., tt. 4215, 3855. — Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 2000. 
— Knowres & Westc. Flor. Cab., t. 15. — Harv. Parad., Il, t. 13. — Hook. First Cent. of Orch. Pl., t. 48. 
he genus Cycnoches deserves a particular interest owing to the size 
and the curious shape of its flowers, and to the fact that these flowers 
are dimorphous. 
What Linney observed about the present species in the Botanical Register 
is interesting to remind here, as a contribution to the history of this species 
and a proof of the perplexity caused by that dimorphism to the ancient botanists. 
Our plate has been prepared after a plant which flowered last spring in the 
houses of L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, and which produced a scape bearing 
only male flowers; the female flowers are far less frequent, although it was 
mentioned recently they had appeared in an english collection. The Orchidists, 
however, would be more acquainted with these forms, if the genus Cycnoches 
should occupy in the collections the place it really deserves. 
The C. Loddigesi was introduced by Messrs. Loppices, of Hackney, and 
described for the first time by LinpLey in 1832, but it soon became very rare 
till a few years past. 
Le genre Cycnoches est célébre pour la grandeur et la forme curieuse de 
ses fleurs, ainsi que pour leur dimorphisme, particularité assez rare dans la famille 
des Orchidées. 
La citation suivante de Linpey est intéressante A noter A cause des ren- 
seignements qu’elle fournit, tant sur l’histoire de cette espéce que sur l’étonnement 
que causa aux botanistes anciens la premiére constatation de ce dimorphisme : 
« En aoit 1836, écrit Linptey dans le Botanical Register, M. Witmer, de 
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