No. 1776.. 
ZYGOPETALON MAXILLARIS, 
= Class. | Order, ; 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This is a native of Rio Janeiro: we re- 
ceived it in 1829 from our valued friend 
r. F. Warre : it flowered in August 1831. 
The leaves are about a foot long, and the 
flower-stems two-thirds of their length. 
The lip is very broad, and on its disk, sur- 
rounding the column, is a fleshy production 
resembling the lower jaw beset with teeth, 
which has suggested the name. 
It requires the stove, and should be potted 
in vegetable earth with a little sand. It 
may be occasionally increased by separating 
creasingly interesting family. À few years 
since only two or three species were 
in cultivation, and now they are almost in- 
numerable, while each newly-discovered 
kind is as diversified from every other, and 
as marvellous in its form, as the very first- 
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