ZYGOPET’ALUM MAXILLA‘RE. 
JAW-SHAPED ZYGOPETALUM. 
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_ GENUS. Safi inant Hooxzr.— PERtconit explanati foliola exteriora 
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carnosa, CoLuMna brevii s, arcuata, s emiteres. ANTHERA A incomplete bilocu- 
laris. Poxttrtn1a duo bipartibilia, in glandula transversa subsessilia, 
Americanez tropice epigee, subacaules. Fotra plicata patentia. Fiores 
magni, speciosi, labello discolore. Enpzicner: Genera + Pp: 201. 
SPECIES. Zycoretatum MaxituareE. Loppiees, Foxtts lanceolatis un- 
tis acuminatis racemo flexuoso igs sepalis petalisque ovato-oblon. 
ah ee ae obovato callo baseos maximo lunato margine crispa. Lr. 
and Species, p. 188 
CHARACTER OF THE os ZYGOPETALUM. PERIGON spreading, 
the outer and inner divisions nearly equal and similar, ascending, con- 
nected at the base with each other and with the base of the column. 
LABELLUM not spurred, undivided, spreading, ascending at the base, 
with a large transverse fleshy crista. CoLumn short-arched, semicy- 
lindrical. ANTHER incompletely bilocular. POLLEN masses two, 
each divisible into two, nearly sessile on the transverse gland. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, ZYGOPETALUM MAXILLARE. A ter- 
restrial plant witha creeping rhizoma, sending forth at intervals fasei- 
cles of leaves and very short stems, thickened at the base into an ovate 
pseudo-bulb. Leaves about a foot high, lanceolate, acuminate, 
wavy, and narrowed into a footstalk at the base. FLOWERING STEM 
usually about 9 inches high, flexuose, bearing 3 or’ 4 large flowers, form- 
ing a loose raceme, each flower in the axilla of a sheathing lanceolate 
membranaceous bractea. Sepas or outer divisions of the perigon, 
ovate, oblong, pointed, green with transverse. purple marks, and pur- 
plish at the base ; inner divisions or petals similar to them, but nar- 
rower, especially at the base. Lape tum large, rounded, very broad, 
convex, entire, but somewhat waved on the edge, blue with longitudi- 
