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ZYGOPETALUM. 



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apical half red-brown with some yellow spots, the petals with some 



crimson-purple streaks at the base ; lip clawed, narrowly elliptic-oblong, 



acute, reflexed, the basal half white, the apical half red-brown ; crest 



a semi-circular white plate fringed with long, narrow, light-purple, 



incurved teeth. Column trir^uetral, winged and hooded with the margin 



jagged, pale green with a purple spot on each side of the stigma. 



Zygopetalum Burtii, Benth. in Gen. Plant. III. p. 543 (1883). Batemania Burtii, 

 Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1099. Bot. Mag. t. 6003. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 101. 

 Kegel's Gartenjl. 1883, t. 1114. 



Zygopetalum Burtii. 

 From the Gardening World.) 



var.— Wallisii. 



Flowers larger with all the segments narrower and more acuminated ; 

 sepals chestnut-brown, white at the very base ; petals chestnut-brown, 

 yellow at the base with a brown-purple blotch broken into lines; lip 



