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Z. brachypetalum, Lindley. — A handsome species, with 

 ensiform lanceolate leaves, shorter than the tall many-flowered 

 scape ; the flowers are showy, with short stiff" convex oblong 

 obtuse sepals and petals, which are brown, a little marbled 

 with green, much more brown than green from the blotches 

 running together, the transverse roundish emarginate lip, 

 which is white, veined with deep bluish violet. The crest 

 or frill of the lip is closely striped with blue. It blooms in 

 December, lasting long in perfection. — Brazil : Minas. 



Fig. — Journ. Hort. Soc, iv. p. xi., with fig. 



Z. Burkei, Rchb. f. — A new and very distinct species, 

 which was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch and Sons at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society in November, 1883. The pseudobulbs 

 are clustered, narrow oblong, furrowed, about three inches 

 long, bearing a couple of elongate lanceolate acuminate 

 nervose leaves, and a radical scape with four or five curiously 

 marked elegant flowers, of which the ovate lanceolate sepals 

 and petals are green, thickly marked with longitudinal bands 

 of brown, which here and there break up into spots ; the 

 unguiculate obovate lip is white, with a ruff of about thirteen 

 crimson plaits or folds. It flowers in November and Decem- 

 ber, — Guiana ; Demerara. 



Fid.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 142. 



Z. Clayi, Rchh. f. — This distinct and beautiful hybrid, the 

 result of a cross between Z. crinitum and Z. maxillare, was 

 raised by Colonel Clay, of Birkenhead, and flowered for the 

 first time in 1877. We had the honour of distributing this 

 plant, having purchased the entire stock from him. It is of 

 very free- growing habit, having oblong furrowed pseudobulbs 

 about three inches long, and evergreen lanceolate nervose 

 leaves a foot and a half in length. It is also a very free- 

 flowering plant, producing its large showy blossoms in 

 racemes on radical scapes at diff'erent times of the year 

 according to its period of growth. The sepals and petals 

 are deep purplish brown, with a narrow green margin and 

 transverse bands of the same running through and in some 

 cases forming broad blotches ; the hp is broad, an inch and a 

 half wide, deep violet-purple with darker purple lines, and 

 paler at the edge, the ruff or callus being whitish with bluish 

 violet plaits. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 50 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 2G7. 



