Tas, 5582: 
WARSCEWIZELLA vexata. 
Veiled Warscewizella. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuipE#.—GyNaNDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium carnoso-membranaceum, oblique insertum. La- 
bellum brevissime unguiculatum, subquadratum, lobatum, basi cucullata 
columnam amplectens, ceterum planiusculum, basi lamelliferam. Mentum 
modicum. Columna semiteres, foved triangula angusté sub rostello trilobo 
abscondité, lobus rostelli medius prosiliens. Anthera depresso-mitrata, 
apiculata, valvis posticis persistentibus, bilocularis. Pollinia 2 depressa, 
oblonga, alté bipartita, in caudicula ligulataé, apice hastataé. Glandula 
rhombea. (Character ex Reichenbach.) 
WarscewizEnna velata; ebulbis, foliis (4-5) spithameis pedunculis uni- 
floris duplo longioribus, sepalis petalisque reflexis, sepalis lateralibus 
lanceolatis acutis dorsali majore, petalis lato-ovatis acutis, labello ex- 
panso subquinquelobo a basi brevissime unguiculato, callo semi-ovato 
varie dentato in laminam transcendente, carinis transcendentibus in- 
tegerrimis ; columné utrinque angulata. 
Warscewizetua velata. Rehd. fil. in Schl. Bot. Zeit. 1865, p. 99. 
ZYGOPETALUM velatum. Idem in litt. 
The genera Huntleya, Bollea, Warrea, Warscewizella, Pes- 
catorea, and Zygopetalum—to any one of which our present 
subject might put forth a claim to belong—form a sort of 
tangled skein, which neither a Lindley nor a Reichenbach 
have yet been able to unravel. I frequently pressed my late 
lamented friend, the former of the two botanists referred 
to, to undertake the examination of this difficult subject, but 
death snatched him away before he could bring himself to 
deal with a problem on which his views were constantly fluc- 
tuating, and I doubt whether the matter is even now ripe 
for solution. I find that Reichenbach, who saw the present 
plant in flower, regards it as identical with his own V. velata, 
but there is also a considerable resemblance to W. marginata, 
figured in ‘ Pescatorea’ and in the Professor’s own ‘ Xenia 
Orchidacea.’ 
For my own part, although I formerly had doubts as to 
JUNE lst, 1866. 
