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Coryanthes (Four species all tropical)

Four species, all tropical American, have been referred to this genus. To those described on p. 382, Vol. I., the following variety should now be added:

C. maculata punctata (dotted). fl. large; sepals and petals ochre-yellow, spotted wine-purple; lip with a hood-shaped body near the base, to which a large, helmet-shaped, pedunculate appendage is attached, the hood yellowish, spotted and blotched wine-purple, the pouch more heavily marked. October and November. Demerara. (B. R. 1793; W. O. A. iii. 98.)