282 TiMEHRI. 



2. Z. Mackaii ... Flowers green, barred with chocolate, lip 



white streaked with lilac. 



3. Z. cochleare ... Flowers whitish, lip variegated with blue. 



4. Z. Burkei ... Flowers blackish purple, lip white with 



purple stripes. 



5. Z. tricolor ... Flowers greenish white, lip crimson. 



6. Z. venustum 



7. Z. violaceum ... Flowers violet. 



8. Z. sessiliflorum ... Flowers violet almost stemless. 



5. Aganisia, — Pretty little plants with delicate flowers, 

 resembling the Zygopetalums in habit, but smaller. 

 Three species : — 



1. A. pulchella ... Flowers white with a yellow blotch on 



the lip. 



2. A. graminea ... Flowers yellow, spotted, with red. 



3. A. firabriata ... Flowers white, lip blue, fringed. 



6. Acacallis, — A single species, separated from Agani- 

 sia, with tufted leaves and a spike of flowers 18 inches 

 long :— 



I. A. cyanea ... Flowers white, blotched with blue and 



yellow. 



7. Batemannia. — The only species is a small plant 

 with four-angled pseudo-bulbs and a nodding spike of 

 almost unique coloured flowers. 



1. B. Colleyi ... Flowers reddish. brown. 



Si Bifrenaria. — Rather pretty plants with pseudo- 

 bulbs and thin ribbed leaves. Flowers small, in spikes, 

 with spurs. Two species : — 



1. B. aurantiaca ... Flowers orange with crimson spots. 



2. B. longicornis ... Flowers pinkish, spotted with brown. 



9. Lycaste. — The only native species is generally 

 known by the name of Paphinia. It is a small plant 

 with thin delicate leaves and bluntly two-edged pseudo- 

 bulbs, from below which proceeds a drooping spike ot 

 two or three large and handsome flowers ; — 



