1857 



* ZYG0P6tALUM cochleare. 



Spoon-lipped Zygopetalum. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande^. 



Z YGOPETA L UM, Hooker. PeriantMum explanatum, sepalls petalisque 

 ascendentibus subsequalibus, cum ungue producto columntB connatis. Labellum 

 muticum, indivisum, patens, ungue ascendente : crista magna transversa carnosa. 

 Columna brevis, arcuata, semiteres. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, 



bipartibilia, in glandulam transversam subsessilia.' Herbae terrestres, sub- 



acaules, foliis plicatis patentibus. Flores speciosi, labello coeruleo. Gen. 

 et Sp. Orch. 187. 



Z. cochleare ; foliis plicatis peduuculis unifloris radioalibus solitariis duplo 

 longioribus, sepalis petalisque ovato-lanceolatis conniventibus inferioribus 

 majoribus, labello cochleato bilobo crista transversa crenata. 



Pseudobulbi nzfZZi. Y o\\a, pallidt viridia ohovata vel oblonga, plicata, 

 pedem longa, infima abbreviata petiolaria. Pedunculi ex axillis foliorum 

 infimoriiviy basi vaginati, unijiori, erecti, apice sub ovario bracted cucullatd 

 oblongd. Ovarium albidum, incurvum. Perianthium semi-explanatum. 

 Sepala ovata, subundulata, acuta, albo-viridia, lateralia majora. Petala 

 sepalo svpremo conformia et ccqualia. l^aheWum cum columna basi paululum 

 elongata articulatum, concavujn, unciam latum, 1 j unc. longum, indivisum, 

 emarginatum, extus albidum, intus venis creberrimis atrocceruleis velutinis 

 pictum ; breve unguiculatum, supra unguem callo lato rotundato convexo 

 plurie s plicato et cristato instructum. Columna teres clavata, dorso viridi-alba, 

 fronte purjmreo-striata, basi paululum producta. Antbera bilocularis valvis 

 hilabiatis. Pollinia 4, per paria incumbentia. 



Beautiful as all the species of Zygopetalum are, without 

 exception, this is 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 (tvyvvb), to join ; in allusion to the 

 adhesion of the segments of the perianth by their bases, in the original species. 



