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W. Wendlandii discolor, Bchh. /.—A very pretty and 

 desirable variety, with light green evergreen foliage, and 

 peduncles bearing solitary flowers, which are produced singly 

 from the axils of the leaves, and are deliciously scented ; they 

 have the lanceolate sepals and petals yellowish green, and the 

 ovate cordate lip about one and a half inch broad, much 

 crisped and minutely lobed at the margin, white, having a 

 large bright violet blotch in the centre. It flowers during 

 August and September, and continues about two weeks in 

 perfection. — Costa Fdca. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 126. 



ZyGOPETALDM, Hooker. 

 ( Tribe Vandea;, suhiribe Cyrtopodiea3.) 



This genus comprises a considerable number of handsome 

 plants of epiphytical habit, with stout pseudobulbs, distichous 

 venose evergreen leaves, and terminal scapes bearing a 

 raceme of large and showy flowers. The sepals and petals 

 are spreading, united at the base, and the lip is affixed to the 

 foot of the column, and is slightly incumbent, forming a short 

 chin, its middle lobe flat and spreading, and the disk bearing 

 a transverse crest, which, from being ribbed or plaited, has 

 the appearance of a rufi" or frill. There are some score or 

 more species known, found chiefly in Tropical and Central 

 America. The name is sometimes written Zijgopetalon. 

 The flowers are generally produced during the winter months, 

 a circumstance which makes them specially valuable as 

 decorative plants. 



Culture. — Most of the species are rather large-growing 

 plants, of easy culture. The Cattleya house is the most 

 suitable place in which to grow them, and they are best kept 

 in pots, with peat and good drainage, and with plenty of 

 water at the roots when growing. They are propagated by 

 dividing the plants. 



