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CATASETUM floribundum. 
Baron de Schack's many-flowered Catasetwrii 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.— Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEJE. 
Gen. Char. — Corolla resupinata ; foliolis quinque subaequalia ; labello sac-» 
cato-concavum. Columna bicornis ; cornna retrorsa^ filiformia, arcuato- 
cbnniventia. Anlhera operculata, columna interne infra apicem atte- 
nuato-subulatum insidens. Pollinis masscB duae, pedicello communi sUf- 
fultae. — Rich. MSS. in Kuntk. 
Parasiticum. Folia membranacea, ex apice bulbi erumpentia. Pedunculi 
dicales, uni- pauci- multijlori, bracteati. Floras magni. 
Catasetum Jloribundum ; spica foliis breviore, labello obtusissime tri- 
dentato, petalis subagqualibus late ovatis acutis duobus interioribus 
intus purpureo-maculatis, reliquis columnaque concoloribus. 
Parasitic. Plant from a foot to a foot and a half high, throwing out seve- 
ral thick, fleshy, simple, white fibres. Bulbs oblong, compressed, 6-10 
inches long, fleshy, covered with the dry sheathing bases of the old 
leaves, and terminated at the extremity by a crown of 3-4 lanceolate 
pale green, ribbed, carinated and undulated, subreflexed acute leaves, 
about a foot long. 
Scape arising from the very base of the bulb, about a foot high, cylindrical, 
at intervals furnished with green membranaceous sheaths, and curved 
with the weight of its many large fleshy jlowers, which form a lax 
broad spike at the extremity. Bracteas lanceolate, shorter than the 
germen. 
Flowers very large, beautiful, scentless. Petals equal in length : the three 
outer ones nearly equal in size, the terminal one approaching to lanceo- 
late, concave, subconnivent, pale green, united at the base, the back 
subcarinated, the apex very acute, both within and without of an uniform 
pale green colour. Two inner petals equal in size with the two lateral 
outer ones, and differing from them only in being faintly spotted with 
purple in the inside. Lip superior, cucuUate, large, thick, fleshy, the mar- 
gin in front tridentate, teeth very obtuse, the sides lengthened out towards 
the base of the column ; its colour is a deep yellow, the extremity pale 
green, within it has large deep purple blotches. Column confluent, as 
it were, with the back of the lip, leaning a little forward, about 2 inches 
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