HORTUS VEITCHI1 



ZYGOPETALUM BUETII, Benth. 



Syns. Batemannia Burtii, Echb. 

 Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1099; Bob. Mag. t. 6003. 



Originally discovered by Endres in 1867 in Costa Eica, and shortly 

 afterwards imported from that country. A plant obtained from us flowered 

 for the first time in Great Britain in the collection of the late Mr. Burnley 

 Hume, at Winterton, Norfolk, in the summer of 1872. 



The flowers are fleshy, 3 to 4 in. in diameter, white at the very base of 

 the segments, then yellow, and the apical half red-brown with some yellow 

 spots. Comparatively few plants have been introduced. 



ZYGOPETALUM DAYANUM, Benth. var. 

 Syns. Pescatorea Dayana, Echb., var. rhodacea. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 575; id. 1874, p. 226; Bot. Mag. t. 6214; Veitchs' Man. 



Orch. PI. pt. ix. p. 50. 



Discovered by Gustav Wallis in New Grenada, introduced in 1873, and 

 named in honour of the late Mr. John Day of Tottenham. 



The flowers, 3 in. in diameter, are coloured cream-white and green on 

 the sepals and petals, and the lip white stained with crimson. 



ZYGOPETALUM LAMELLOSUM, Benth. 



Syns. Pescatorea lamellosa, Echb. f. 



Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. p. ix. p. 54 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6240 ; Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1875, 



vol. iv. p. 225. 



Introduced from New Grenada through Gustav Wallis, who gave no 

 precise locality, and flowered for the first time in August 1875 ; it is long 

 lost to cultivation. 



The flowers, about 2f- in. in diameter, are of a nearly uniform yellow 

 colour with a yellowish-white lip marked by an orange and brown crest. 



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