ZTGOPBTALUM. 



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" Pescatoreas, Bolleas and Warscewiczellas grow in the dark shadows 

 of the vixgin forest on stones or on the stems and lower Ijranches of 

 trees ; these require shade, too much light would kill them. " 



Z. candidum. 



Pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves radical, ligulate-cuneate or oblanceolate, 

 acute, refiexed at the tips, pale green. Scapes whitish, slender, much 

 shorter than the leaves, one-flowered ; bracts J inch long, sheathing, 

 membraneous, pale brown. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and 

 petals lanceolate, acute, white ; the dorsal sepal bent forwards, the 

 petals and lateral sepals more or less reflexecl ; lip obscurely three- 

 lobed, the side lobes obliquely oblong, incurved towards the column, 

 white with the front margin light violet ; the intermediate lobe sub- 

 orbicular with a striated violet blotch on the disk, the marginal area 

 light violet striated Avith white ; crest a thin transversely oblong plate 

 toothed along the front margin. Column white, triquetral, dilated at 

 the apex. 



Zygopetalum candidum, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 656 (1863). Warrea Candida, 

 Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. I. p. 32, icon. xyl. (1851). AVarscewiczella Candida, Rchb. 

 in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 36. Linden's Pesc, t. 15. Huntleya Candida, Hort. 



A handsome but rare species in European gardens somewhat 

 more tractable under cultivation than many of its congeners^ intro- 

 duced from Bahia in Brazil in 1848 by M. Morel, of Paris ; its 

 habitat, however, is said to be in the interior of the province, 

 several hundred miles from the coast. It has been occasionally 

 imported with Gattleija Aclandice, Lcelia grandis, and other orchids 

 from the same region ; it thence requires the same temperature as 

 those orchids but more shade. 



Z. cerinum. 



Leaves foiu- to six to each growth, the lower ones short, tlie upper 

 ones oblong-ligulate, acute, 7 — 10 or more inches long. Peduncles 3 — 4 

 inches long, one-flowered, sheathed by 2 — 3 lanceolate, acute bracts. 

 Flowers 3 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals light citron-yellow, the 

 dorsal sepal and petals similar and sub-equal, obovate, obtuse, concave 

 towards the apex ; the lateral sepals broader, oval-oblong, sub-acute ; lip 

 clawed, bright yellow, oval-oblong, convex with the lateral margins 

 reflexed and the upper surface covered with warty excrescences ; crest 

 semi-circular, regularly ridged and furrowed, the ridges red-brown. 

 Column terete, light yellow lielow the stigma ; anther red-purple. 



Zygopetahim cerinum, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 651 (1863). Id. in Van 

 Houtte's Fl. des Serves, XVII. t. 1815. Huntleya cerina, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. 

 Gard. III. p. 62, icon. xyl. (1853). Bot. Maq. t. 5598. Pescatorea cerina Rchb' 

 Ken. Orch. I. p. 184, t. 65. Fl. Mag. N..s. t. 93. Williams' Orch. Alb. IX t 394* 



