278 A Report on New and Rare Plants, $c. 



Forbes, are specimens of this plant, with which the plant that 

 floweredinthe Garden ofthe Society, agreed in all its characters. 

 A figure may be found in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 2539. 



XXII. Arthropodium minus. JR. Brown. 

 A tuberous rooted plant, about eighteen inches high, leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, erect, of a pale glaucous green, quite 

 smooth, and shorter than the panicle. Panicle slightly com- 

 pressed, very slender. Flowers about two together, or solitary, 

 pendulous, pure white ; the tuft of the stamens yellow, the 

 anthers purple. A hardy green-house plant, flowering in J uly. 

 Raised from seed sent to the Society from New Holland in 

 1823, by Mr. Charles Frazer. A figure, from a plant in the 

 possession ofthe Society, is in the Botanical Register, tab. 866. 



ORCHIDEOUS PLANTS. 

 XXIII. Catasetum Claveringi. Lindley. 

 This noble species of Catasetum was brought from Bahia de 

 S. Salvador in 1823, by Mr. George Don. It is a parasitical 

 plant, consisting chiefly of a cluster of oblong bulbs, covered 

 with the remains of the dry sheaths of the leaves of former 

 years. The leaves are long, lanceolate, plaited and wavy, of a 

 bright green, slightly spotted with purple towards their base. 

 The flowers are disposed in a spike, upon a radical scape, which, 

 together with the flowers, is about half the length of the 

 leaves. The flowers are very large, somewhat globular, quite 

 free from pubescence, and having a powerful but pleasant 

 smell of honey ; on the outside they are dingy green, in the 

 inside they are banded with irregular spots of a rich purple, 

 like the flowers of some kinds of Stapelia. The labellum 



