pale yellow in the lower part, and purplish-brown in the upper. Lip smallish, 
white at the base and purplish-brown in front, with a semi-circular fringe of 
stiff, yellow hairs in the front. Flowers in Summer and lasts some weeks. 
(Syn. Zygopetalum Meleagris and Batemannia Meleagris.) 
KEFFERSTEINIA GRAMINEA. Native of Brazil. 
This species, lacking pseudobulbs, grows in a fan-shaped’ tuft of leaves from the 
root-crown. These are lanceolate, channelled, bright green, about 6 inches in 
length, and united to each other for about 1 inch at the base. Stems are about 
2: inches long and grow in clusters at the base of the leaves, each bearing one 
flower. These are about 14 inches across and have ovate, spreading sepals and 
petals, greenish-yellow and lightly spotted with rich, deep brown. Lip oval with 
a crisped margin—yellow with a rosy suffusion and blotched with crimson-brown. 
Flowers in Autumn. 
(Syn. Zygopetalum gramineum.) 
PESCATOREA KLABOCHORUM. Native of Colombia and Ecuador. 
A lovely species without pseudobulbs and with tufted, strap-shaped, dark green 
leaves about 1 foot in length. Flowers, solitary, 3 to 34 inches wide. Sepals, 
oblong and blunted, petals pointed, are white with chocolate-purple points; lip 
trowel-shaped, creamy-yellow covered in front with purple-topped hairs; disk 
has a sulphur-coloured callus with brown keels. Flowers in Autumn and lasts 
several weeks, 
(Syn. Zygopetalum Klabochorum.) 
PESCATOREA LEHMANNII. Native of Ecuador. 
A very beautiful species, without pseudobulbs and with lanceolate, pointed leaves 
up to 18 inches long by 1 inch wide. Flowers solitary and from 3 to 34 inches 
across. Sepals and petals broadly ovate, white with close, reddish-purple, parallel 
lines. Lip small, deep mauve-purple, narrow at the base. Side lobes folded over 
the column. Middle lobe clothed with coarse, purple hairs. The callus consists 
of a dozen longitudinal, chestnut-brown ridges. Flowers in Autumn and Winter 
and lasts four to five weeks. 
(Syn. Zygopetalum Lehmannii.) 
PROMENAEA ROLLINSONII. Native of Brazil. 
A small but brilliant species, with small, round, compressed, green pseudobulbs 
about an inch long, topped with a pair of short, broadly lanceolate leaves, recurved 
at the tips. Flowers are solitary, on slender, drooping scapes which spring from 
the base of newly matured pseudobulbs. They are about 2 inches across and 
have oblong, acute and spreading sepals and petals of a bright, pale, clear yellow. 
The three-lobed lip is bright yellow, the erect side lobes spotted and barred with 
purple. Flowers in Summer and lasts three to four weeks. 
(Syn. Zygopetalum Rollinsonii.) 
