ZYGOPETALUM. 619 



Z. crinitum, Loddir/cs. — A handsome species, with ovate 

 pseudobulbs, and lorate-lanceohxte plicate leaves, shorter 

 than the scapes, which spring from the base of the bulb and 

 support a raceme of several large beautifully variegated 

 flowers, which are produced in winter, and last a long 

 time in perfection. Sometimes two spikes come from the 

 same pseudobulb. The oblong-lanceolate sepals and petals 

 are green, barred with brown, and the broad obovate emar- 

 ginate lip is white or cream-coloured, streaked with coloured 

 veins which are densely hairy. The callus is small and 

 incurved, yellow. The best variety is that called CCeruleum, 

 Hort., which has the veins of a deep bright blue. There is 

 another form with the veins pink. — Brazil. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3402 ; Lodd. Bot, Cab., t. 1C87. 



Syn. — Z, Mackayi crinitum. 



Z. Gautieri, Lemaire. — An elegant and most desirable plant. 

 The pseudobulbs are oblong, deeply furrowed, and bear dark 

 green elongate-oblong plaited leaves. The flowers are large, 

 several in a drooping raceme on scapes springing up with 

 and in the midst of the young leaf tufts ; the sepals and 

 petals are oblong acute, green, heavily blotched and trans- 

 versely barred with brown, and the lip is deep purplish blue, 

 lighter at the edge, the ruff" or frill around the column large 

 and of a deep velvety purple. There are several varieties of 

 this plant in which the colour of the lip ranges from a pale 

 mauve to a deep bluish purple. This species grows well 

 either in a basket or on a raft. — Brazil. 



Fm.—Illmt. Eort, t. 535 (pale lip) ; Orchid Album, i. t. 28. 



Z. intermedium, Loddiges. — A free-growing, useful o 

 plant, easily grown, and a profuse bloomer ; its flowers begi 

 to open during autumn, and continue in full perfection fo 

 five or six weeks. The leaves are ensiform, shorter than the 

 raceme of flowers, of which the oblong acute sepals and petals 

 are green tinged with brown ; and the large flat roundish 

 bilobed undulated hp is blue streaked with deep purple, and 

 clothed with a downy pubescence. Eeichenbach makes it a 

 variety of Z. Mackayi. — Brazil. 

 Syn. — Z. velutinum, 



Z. Mackayi, Hooker. — A very handsome plant, producing 

 long spikes of large flowers during the winter months, and 

 lasting in perfection a long time. The pseudobulbs are 

 large ovate and scarred, with numerous distichous linear- 



