64 ZTGOPETALUM. 



This is one of the finest of the species incUidcd in the section 

 Warscewiczella, but unfortunately, hke many of its congeners, it 

 is a refractory subject under cultivation, and thus far no information 

 has been accorded respecting the conditions under which it grows 

 in its native country. It was discovered by Franz Klaboch in 

 Ecuador, and was dedicated by Reichenbach to him and his 

 brother conjointly, both of whom fell victims to the toils and 

 dangers of orchid-collecting on the Andes of Ecuador and Colombia. 

 Ic flowered for the first time in this country in several collections 

 in the summer of 1879, the flowers showing some variability in the 

 depth and extent of coloration. Although no locality is recorded, 

 Zijgopetalum Klabochonim has since been imported from Ecuador; its 

 habitat is therefore known to orchid collectors in that country. 

 We are indebted to Mr. 0. J. Lucas, of Warnham Court, for the 

 flower here figured. 



Z. Lalindei. 



" Leaves elliiDtic-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowed below, 

 a foot long more or less, strongly five-nerved. Flowers 2|- — 3 inches 

 broad, on peduncles about 3 inches long with 2 — 3 sheathing bracts; 

 sepals spreading and recurved at the tip, broadly ovate-oblong, rose 

 coloured with straw-yellow tip, the lower margin of the lateral two 

 also straw-yellow ; petals oblong, obtuse, rose-coloured with white 

 margins ; lip ovate-hastate, margins and tip recurved, the latter obtusely 

 pointed, golden yellow ; disk with raised, close-pressed smooth lamellae. 

 Column broader than the raised disk of the lip, arched, rose 

 coloured." — Botanical Magazine. 



Zygopetalum Lalindei, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. IT. (1874), p. 33. BoUea Lalindei, 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. loc. cit. Bot. Mag. t. 6331. B. Patinii, Fl. Mag. N.s. 



t. 147. 



A handsome species discovered by M. Lalinde, a resident of 

 Medellin, in New Granada, by whom it was sent to Europe through 

 M. Patin, a Belgian, settled in the same city. A very noticeable 

 structural peculiarity is the great breadth of the column, the dis- 

 tinguishing character of the section Bollea, which in this species 

 completely arches over the plaited palate of the labellum, and is 

 even broader in proportion to the size of the flower than in the 

 closely allied Z>jgopetalum coeleste. 



Z. lamellosum. 



" Leaves narrowly lanceolate, about a foot long, narrowed to the 

 base, five-nerved. Peduncles stout, 3 inches long Avith two appressed. 



