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CATASETUM Claveringi. 
Captain Clavering’s Catasetum. 
GaNkNDutat M ONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncHIDEZ.—Div. IV. Epidendree. Sect.J. Ecalcarate vy. 
ad maximum saccate, Pollinia 2. Supra fol. 832. 
CATASETUM, Rich.—Perianthium rectum, sepius globosum. La- 
bellum saccatum, concayum, sepalis difforme.. Columna aptera bicirrhosa. 
_Anthera cornuta, bilocularis. Pollinia postice biloba, in filo maximo, denu- 
dato, transyerso, demum elastice contractili, inserta. 
Div. I. Perianthium globosum. Labellum saccatum, galeatum. 
C. Claveringi, spicA foliis breviore, labello carnoso apice tridentato, sepalis 
oblongis obtusis: interioribus Mmaculatigges et as 
Bulbi epigai, aggregatt, ovales, subfusiformes, vaginis foliorum rigidis 
pallidis undique vestiti. Folia 4-5, lanceolata, glaberrima, ad basin attenu- 
ata, pallide viridia, 5-nervia, subplicata, nervis lateralibus approximatis & 
medio distantibus. Bulbi juniores et bases foliorum purpureo hic illic macu- 
lati. Scapus radicalis, teres, glaucus, foliis multo brevior, 6-florus, vaginis 
brevibus, pallidis, ‘substriatis vestitus. Flores maximi, spicati, globost, 
Myrrhidis odore, cito decidui. Sepala secunda, ovato-lanceolata, glaberri- 
ma, extus viridia apices versus rubro suffusa, exteriora intus purpuro obscuro 
‘maculata, interiora maculis purpuri intensi variegata. Labellum maximum, 
posticum, carnosum, inter sepala exteriora erectum, saccatum, cucullatum, 
apice viride, limbo et intus intense luteum, medio margine tridentatum. Co- 
lumna cum labello continua, recta, clavata, cornuta, semiteres, dorso cari- 
nata, purpuro punctata et maculata, antice cirrhis duobus filiformibus ex 
‘angulis inferioribus gynizi dependentibus, in bast labelli incurvatisa Gynizus 
quadratus, excavatus, labio inferiore tenui, porrecto, transverso. Clinan- 
drium postice in cornu column fere dimidid. longitudine productum, An- 
thera terminalis, opercularis, 2-locularis, elastice dissiliens, cristd cornuté 
cornu clinandrii respondente. Pollinia 2, pallidé-lutea, cava, postice fissa, 
‘filo annexa corneo, rhomboideo, partem clinandrit extra antheram tegente, 
idemum elastice contractili et convoluto; glandula maxima, ovata, parti su-- 
periori gynizi adherente. 
This fine new species of Catasetum was brought, in 
1822; from Bahia de St. Salvador, in Braziz, to the Horti- 
cultural Society, by Mr. George Don. It is a far more 
remarkable. plant than the -Catasetum tridentatum of 
-Hooker,. and altogether the most singular Orchideous 
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