ZYGOPETALUM 117 



Z. flabelliforme Beichh. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 652 (1861). — 

 Z. cochleare Lindl. in Bot. Beg. t. 1857 (1836); Bool, in Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3585; Griseh. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 629 (excl. distr.). 

 Epidendrum flabelliforme Sw. Prodr. 123 (1788) & Ic. ined. 

 t. 45. Cymbidium flabelliforme Sw. in Nov. Act. TJpsal. vi. 73 

 (1799) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 1471. (PI. 23, f. 17-19.) Type in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



On trees; in fl. Oct.-March; mountains, Swartz ! Manchester, Purdie\ 

 St. Andrew and St. Mary, J.P. 2099, M(yrris\ Spanish River, Watt\ St. 

 Ann, Miss T. M. Barrett ! Cedar Hurst, Moore 1 Clydesdale, 3500 ft. ; 

 DoUwood; Silver HiU Woodland; Catherine's Peak, 5000 ft.; Moody's 

 Gap, 3000 ft. ; above Hope Mines, 900 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7576, 7736, 

 7808. 



Plant 8-12 in. high. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly oblong, abruptly 

 acute, tapering below into a sheathing stalk with which the blade is 

 jointed, 12-30 cm. 1., 2-5-4'2 cm. br. Sheaths below leaves, 3-6 cm. 1. 

 Scape from the axils of the outer leaves, erect, 3-10 cm. 1. Bracts several 

 at; and just above base of scape, and two at base of flower, spathe-like, 

 1-2 cm. 1. Ovary white, curved, 2-3 cm. 1. (pedicel forming about one- 

 third). Flowers white with blue lip, with fragrance like lily-of-the-valley, 

 perianth 1-lJ in. 1. Sepals oblong or oblong-lanceolate, greenish-white, 

 3-3-5 cm. 1., 9-10 mm. br. Petals similar and slightly smaller. Lip very 

 large, somewhat square in outline when flattened, with a small short 

 claw, at base broad, cordate, ventricose, margin involute and curled, apex 

 emarginate ; at the base within is a large lunate fleshy depressed crest, 

 lobed and crenated, marked with purple lines continued into disk ; 2 • 5-3 

 cm. 1. and br. Column short, with two small wings above, white streaked 

 with red in front, 1 cm. 1. Capsule cylindrical, 4-5 cm. 1., 10-13 mm. br. 



47. BULBOPHYLLUM Thou. 



Epiphytic herbs. Stem more or less covered with scarious 

 sheaths. Pseudobulbs sessile at the axils of the sheaths, bearing 

 one or two leaves at the apex. Flowering scapes at the sides of 

 the pseudobulbs, leafless, simple, with numerous sheaths at 

 intervals. Flowers minute, numerous on a terminal spike. 

 Bracts small. Median sepal free, erect or spreading, about as 

 long as the lateral ; lateral at the base obliquely dilated, and 

 adnate to the foot of the column, above spreading, free, or connate 

 somewhat high up. Petals shorter than the sepals. Lip on the 

 upper side of flower, contracted at the base, jointed with the 

 foot of the column, or mobile, incumbent on the foot ; entire or 

 plumose-ciliate, recurved, often variously thickened. Column 

 erect, generally short, produced at the base into a rather long 

 foot, 2-winged above ; clinandrium short, posteriorly often 

 produced into a tooth which bears the anther, anteriorly 

 2-armed, 2-toothed or 2-angled, and sometimes the wings of the 

 column below the arms appendaged on both sides with a some- 

 what small tooth. Anther terminal, opercular, incumbent, 

 flattish-hemispherical or obtusely conical, generally 2-celled ; 

 pollinia waxy, normally four, segregated in pairs in the cells, 



