ZYQOPETALUM. 



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var.— intermedium. 



Pseudo-bulbs longer and narrower. Leaves longer and more acuminate. 



Scapes shorter, stouter, and fewer-flowered; the coloured lines on the 



lip paler, much interrupted and broken up into spots. 



Z. Mackayi intermedium, supra. Z. intermedium, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1844, misc. 

 No. 15. Sander's Rcichenhachia, I. t. 15. Lindenia, V. t. 216. Z. Mackayi, 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. III. p. 97. Echb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 661. 



The typical form was introduced from Brazil iu 1826 by Mr. 



Mackay^ of the Trinity College Botanic Garden at Dublin. The 



variety crinHum first appeared in the Wentworth collection of Earl 



Fitzwilliam in 1835, and two years afterwards it was gathered by 



Zygopetalam Mackayi. 



Gardner on the Organ Moantains. The variety intermedium first 

 appeared in 1837 in the collection of Mr. Bowe^ of Manchester, 

 when it was figured in Paxton's Magazine of Botany as Zygopetalum 

 Mackayi, its deviation from the original form not being then noticed^ 

 The geographical range of the species has been vaguely stated to 

 be southern Brazil^ from Santa Catherina to the Organ Mountains, 

 probably along the coast range between 28° and 22° S. The two 



