616 oechid-gkowek's manual. 



The flowers are two and a half inches across, the lanceolate 

 acute sepals and the broader reflexed petals white, and the 

 quadrato-hastate lip rosy purple in the centre, with a broad 

 bluish-tinted margin, the disk bearing a large obtriangular 

 ivory white callus with a retuse five-toothed apex, and marked 

 with five distinct bluish purple bars. — Bahia. 



FlG.—Pescatorea, t. 15 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 32, fig. 22. 

 Syn, — Warrea Candida ; Huntleya Candida; H, radians, 



"W. velata, Rchh. f. et Warscew. — A very beautiful and 

 fragrant species, growing about a foot high, ebulbous, with a 

 few oblong-ligulate acute leaves, a span long, springing with 

 the shorter stoutish peduncle from the crown of roots. The 

 flowers are solitary, the oblong broadly ovate acute sepals and 

 petals and narrower lateral sepals all spreading upwards, 

 yellowish white, and the large broad flat five-lobed lip yellow- 

 ish white, margined with crimson, the disk radiately striate 

 with numerous purple-crimson bars ; at the base is a stout 

 callus resembling a semicircular row of five or seven teeth. — 

 New Grenada. 



¥iG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5582; Xenia OrcJi., i. t. 23, fig. 1 ; BeJr/. Eort., 187S, 

 t. 10, fig. 4. 



Syn. — Zygopetalum velatum. 



W. Wailesiana, Rchb. f. — A very elegant little species, with 

 dark evergreen leaves, and flowers of moderate size, having 

 the sepals and petals white or cream-coloured, and the 

 roundish concave lip white, stained along the centre with 

 violet ; there is at the base a crest of five radiating violet 

 finger-like bars, which are free except at their origin. The 

 flowers smell like those of the sweet pea. It blooms during 

 the autumn months, lasting long in perfection. — Brazil. 



IPiG.—Paxt. FI. Gard., i. 73, fig. 48; Belg. Eort., 1878, t. 10, fig. 1. 



Syn. — Warrea Wailesiana. 



"W. Wendlandii, Bchh. f. — A very desirable and handsome 

 ebulbous species, having a tuft of distichous oblong-Hgulate 

 leaves, and stout axillary peduncles, bearing flowers from four 

 to five inches in diameter, the lanceolate sepals and petals 

 white, somewhat twisted ; the hp ovate cordate, multilobulate 

 and much undulated at the margins, recurved at the apex, 

 white, with a large oblong blotch of violet-purple, longitudinally 

 marked by about seven darker purple lines, and having a 

 semilunate frill or rufi" with seven to nine violet-purple ribs. 

 It flowers during August and September. — Costa Bica. 



Syn. — Zygopetalum Wendlandii, 



