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Cycnoches bakbatum. Lindley. A very pretty orchidaceous epiphyte from Ctfsta Rica, with 

 long drooping hairy racemes of yellow flowers spotted with brown, and with a shaggy lip. Flowered 

 with Mrs. Lawrence. 



A singular and handsome plant, which appears almost to connect Gongora with this very sportive genus. A young 

 plant scarcely exhibits a pseudo-bulb at all, only several imbricating, leafy scales terminated by an oblong-oval, 

 acuminated, plaited leaf. When the leaf is fully developed the almost naked pseudo-bulb appears, ovate, compressed, 

 green, smooth, with the withered scales at the base. Scape from the base of the pseudo-bulb, a foot long, dark purple, 

 pubescent or hairy, jointed, sheathed with scales at the joints ; this is terminated by a drooping many-flowered raceme, 

 a foot long, of which the rachis and pedicel-like ovaries are dark purple, and hairy. Flowers moderately large, at first 

 sight a good deal resembling those of Gongora maculata, but larger. Lip very hairy or bearded, hanging down, white 

 tinged with yellow, and elegantly spotted with deep blood colour. — Botanical Magazine, t. 4479. 



Codi^tjm (Ceoton) Picturatus. A plant of most singular leaf-development ; the 

 whole are highly coloured. It presents one of those strange freaks of nature in the 

 vegetable kingdom unaccountable as they are interesting. It is from the New Hebrides, 

 and will no doubt, like the other known species, require a strong heat to grow it well. 



Some of the leaves are uniform in shape, about an 

 inch in breadth, and eighteen in length. The plant pro- 

 duces others of a totally different character, consisting 

 of an oblong leafy peltate base, from the back of which the 

 costa is continued like an excurrent thread, at the end of 

 which grows another elongated leafy portion, with a cupped 

 Xjeltate base. — Butt's Catalogue, 1876. 



Catasetum waeczewitzii. (alias AYarc- 

 zewitzia, Skinner.) A most fragrant terrestrial 

 Orchid from Panama. Introduced by Mr. Skinner. 

 Flowers pale green. Discovered by Warczewitz; 

 blossomed at Penllergare in April with J. D. 

 Llewelyn, Esq. (Pig. 34.) 



C. Warczewitzii, (Monachanthus) racemis brevibus 

 densis pendulis, sepalis petalisque subrctundo-ovatis patulis 

 incurvis, labelli galea, antica basi compressa, apice ventricosa 

 lobis membranaceis planis lateralibus parvis serratis inter- 

 medio bilobo laciniis divaricatis hmbriatis, columna mutica. 



This has found its way into cultivation under the name 

 of Warczewitzia, Mr. Skinner having supposed the genus to 

 be new, and desiring to give it to the bold and indefatigable 

 naturalist who discovered it. We quite agree with Mr. 

 Skinner that if patience, and unwearied industry, courage 

 that never quails before danger, and enthusiasm which 

 despises difficulty, should give a naturalist a claim to a genus, 

 Mr. Warczewitz most eminently has one. But he must 

 wait for another opportunity, the plant that was given him 

 being undoubtedly a Catasetum, and nearly related to 

 C. discolor. As a species it is perfectly distinct from all 

 others ; the flowers which grow in a close pendulous raceme, 

 consist of roundish ovate sepals and petals, and a helmetted 

 lip which spreads into a thin 3-lobed limb, the middle lobe 

 of which divides into two diverging fringed halves. They 

 are pale green, with bright emerald green veins, and though 

 not gaudy are extremely pretty. Their charm consists, 

 however, in their delicious fragrance, -which is quite equal 

 to that of Aerides odoratum 



