Tab. 187.—The plant, the very grand flower-stalk, showing a 
curious flower with four sepals, two tepals, two lips. 
Obs.—It is necessary to correct on Tab. 83 the name to 
Catasetum discolor, Lindl., var. fimbriatum, Rehb. f. MS., in heu 
of the quite inexplicable C. discolor, Lindl., C. fimbriatum, Rehb. f. 
—H. G. RB. f. 
I take a particular interest in the species of the genus 
Catasetum, and I have a very considerable number of species, 
almost all of which require the following treatment :—When 
growing they are placed in a warm and damp stove, rather near 
the light, and with moderate ventilation. When at rest they are 
kept nearly dry and cool at the same time. They like to be 
grown in baskets full of spongy peat and sphagnum, which their 
peculiar roots will in some species soon cover and present a 
rounded, interlacing whitish mass, firm and compact. Catasetum 
laminatum so treated is a very free flowering species, and well 
worth cultivating from the peculiar form of the flowers, which 
are produced in long pendant spikes. My specimens came from 
Mexico, and were suppled to me by Mons. Boucard.—W. W. S. 
