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Coryanthes (Supplement)

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.)