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and spotted Tvith purple inside; lip green, fringed -ivith a 3-ellow recurved flap 

 at the end. This species appears to have been introduced in the early half of 

 this century. A specimen was exhibited by Major-General E. S. Berkeley at 

 the Temple Show on May 28th, 1891, which had been received from Rio dc 

 Janeiro . — Bra:: il. 



Fig.— Orchid .Ubiim, x. t. 480. 



C. BUNGEROTHI, N. E. Brov:n. — A most distinct and very handsome 

 species of Catasetum, introduced from Equatorial America by the Compagnic 

 Continentale d'Horticulture {Lindenia, ii. t. 67). The plant has stout fusiform 

 pseudobulbs eight to nine inches long, which bear several acutely lanceo- 

 late plaited deep-green leaves, which leave on the older ones the annular 



scars, that indicated the 

 point to whicli they 

 had been attached. The 

 flower scape, which bears 

 many-flowered racemes, 

 sjiriugs from the base 

 of the stems, and the 

 flo^^-ers, which arc four 

 inches across, are very 

 attractive on account of 

 their breadth and ])urity 

 of colour. The .sepals 

 arc two inches long, and 

 the smaller )ictals are 

 lanceolate, very acute, 

 radiating in a semicircle, 

 so that they all stand 

 above the lip, which is 

 large (two and a half 

 inches across), ti'aus- 

 versely - oblong, deeply 

 concave, the apex biden- 

 tatc. and the base shortly 

 and bluntly spurred. The 

 column is obtuse, incurved wliite, having at its base a pair of thick white 

 horn-like cirrhi. The large size of the flowers, and their pure whiteness in 

 every part, gives the plant a verj' attractive appearance. — Eriuidor. 



YlK. — Lindniia, ii. t. 57 ; l-tcirlmhachia. ii. r. (to : Juiirii. rf Hurt.. .\iii issc p 5(;.^j 

 f. 83; Giiril. Chrmi. 3 fer., i, 1887, p. 142, f. 32; lh4. .Vii,/.'. (ISSS)' t. ffjws ; Orrli'itl 

 Allium, viii. t. 352 ; Garden, sxxiii. 1888, p. SSS. 



C. BUNGEROTHI AUREUM, Linden et Eodigas.-A very distinct variety with 

 yellow flowers. 



Fig. — Lindenia, iii. I:. IIG. 



C. BUNGEROTHI POTTSIANUM, Linden rt Bodigas.—lhiR variety differs 

 from the type in having the two upper petals spotted with carmine, named in 

 honour of the late Arthur Potts, Esq., of Chester. 



Fig. — Lindenia. iii. t. 104. 



CATASETUM BrSGEUOTHI. 



