1857 
* ZYGOPÉTALUM cochleáre. 
Spoon-lipped Zygopetalum. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHIpace®, $ VANDEA. 
ZYGOPETALUM,Hooker. Perianthium explanatum, sepalis petalisque 
ascendentibus subzequalibus, cum ungue producto columnse connatis. Labellum 
muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente : cristã magnà transversà carnosà. 
Columna brevis, arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, 
bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia. Herbe terrestres, sub- 
acaules, foliis plicatis patentibus.  Flóres speciosi, labello ceruleo. Gen. 
et Sp. Orch. 187. 
Z. cochleare ; folis plicatis pedunculis unifloris radicalibus solitariis duplo 
longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis conniventibus inferioribus 
majoribus, labello cochleato bilobo cristã transversà crenatá. 
Pseudobulbi nulli.» Folia pallidè viridia obovata vel oblonga, plicata, 
pedem longa, infima abbreviata petiolaria. Pedunculi ex ‘axillis foliorum 
infimorum, basi vaginati, uniflori, erecti, apice sub ovario bracteá cucullatá 
oblongá. ^ Oyarium albidum,- incurvum. Perianthium semi-explanatum. 
Sepala ovata, subundulata, acuta, albo-viridia, lateralia majora. Petala 
sepalo supremo conformia et equalia. Labellum cum columna basi paululum 
elongata articulatum, concavum, unciam latum, 1} unc. longum, indivisum, 
emarginatum, extús albidum, intus venis creberrimis atroceruleis velutinis 
pictum ; breve unguiculatum, supra unguem callo lato rotundato convexo 
pluriés plicato et cristato instructum. Columna feres clavata, dorso viridi-alba, 
fronte purpureo-striata, basi paululum producta. Anthera bilocularis valvis 
bilabiatis. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia. 
Beautiful as all the species of Zea are, without 
exception, thisis perhaps upon the whole the most attractive, 
not only on account of the delicate waxy surface of the petals 
and sepals, and the peculiarly rich veining of the Lapis lazuli 
blue of its lip, but because of its delicious fragrance. If Lilies 
* So named by Sir William Hooker from Levyvéo, to join ; in allusion to the 
adhesion of the segments of the perianth by their bases, in the original species. 
