temperature, but in the warmer parts of Brisbane and the North bushhouse con- 
ditions would serve. In the South a sunny glasshouse will be necessary, though 
there is no need for artificial heat. 
WARREA CYANEA. Native of Colombia. 
This species grows in a tuft of broadly lanceolate leaves produced directly from 
the roots. The raceme is short and slender and grows from the roots. It bears 
several small flowers with ovate, pointed, white sepals and petals. The lip is 
wedge-shaped, rounded and undulated at the tip, its crest having four to six 
elevated lines. It is pale blue in colour. Flowers in Summer and lasts six to seven 
weeks. 
Var. alba.—The whole flower is white. 
WARREA TRICOLOR. Native of Brazil. 
The finest species. Pseudobulbs oblong, terete, attenuated and jointed, with 
lanceolate, plicate leaves, tapered at the base into a long stem. The flower-scape 
is about two feet long and purple, and bears a raceme of eight or ten rather large 
globose, drooping flowers. Sepals and petals concave, roundish and creamy-white. 
Lip obovate and cup-shaped, white at the edges, but beautifully dotted and 
blotched with yellow and purple inside. The disk has three to five fleshy ridges. 
Flowers in Summer and lasts well. 
WARSCEWTPCZELRie 
A genus of epiphytes closely allied to Zygopetalum, from which it differs in 
being without pseudobulbs, the evergreen leaves springing from a root crown, as . 
also do the single-flowered scapes. They like moderately warm conditions, and, 
in fact, grow excellently under the same cultural conditions as Cattleyas. Care 
should be taken to preserve them from too much heat, so that a cool place in a 
glasshouse, or even a warm place in an ordinary bushhouse, will serve them in 
Brisbane. In the North bushhouse treatment will suffice. In Sydney glasshouse 
treatment with a little warmth in the coldest part of the Winter is called for. 
A mixture of osmunda and polypodium fibres in equal quantities is as good a 
compost as can be had, although peat and cocoanut fibre will serve. Copious 
watering through the growing period, but only sufficient in Winter to keep the 
roots from drying out. Good drainage is essential. 
WARSCEWICZELLA AMAZONICA. Native of Central America and Venezuela. 
A beautiful species with large, pure white flowers, 4 inches in width, the only 
colouring being a few raised purple lines at the base of the broad, spreading lip. 
Flowers late Summer and lasts a fortnight or more. 
(Syn. Zyg,. Lindeni.) 
