ZYGOPETALUM. 



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materials for description we are indebted to Mr. Charlesworth^ o£ 

 the firm of Charlesworth and Shuttleworth, of Bradford and Clapliam, 

 wlio detected it in the province of Truxillo, in northern Peru. It 

 is an anomalous species placed by Mr. Bentham in the section 

 HuNTLEYA^ but differing from the sectional type in having pseudo- 

 bulbs and a 3 — 5 flowered inflorescence. 



Klabochorum. 



Pseudo-bulbs none. Leaves tufted, eijuitaut at the base, lanceolate, 

 acute, 12 — 15 inches long, and about 2 inches broad. Peduncles 

 short with 1 — 2 joints at each of which is a small, subulate, brownish 

 bract, and a similar larger one at the base of the ovary, one-flowered. 

 Flowers fleshy with spreading segments, 3| — 4 inches in diameter ; 



Zygopetalum Klabochorum. 



sepals and petals oval-oblong, sub-acute, more or less incurved at the 



tips, the basal half white, the apical half brownish purple ; lip half 



as lorg as the other segments, ovate-oblong when spread out, the 



margin incurved and with a shallow sinus at the apex, white densely 



covered with crimson-purple papillae ; crest prominent, semi-circular, 



scolloped into parallel ridges that are crimson-purple, the furrows 



between them white. Column crimson-purple, short, triquetral, concave 



below the stigma. 



Zygopelalum Klabochorum, Rclib. in Gard, Chron. XT. (1879), p. 684. Pescatorea 

 Klabochorum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. loc. cit. ; and XII. (1879), p. 167. "Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. I. t. 17. Paxt. Fl. Gard. re-issue I. t. 21. Recel's Gartenfl. 1890, 

 t.l324. 



