ZYGOPETALUM. 



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Messrs. Low and Co., which on flowering was referred by Keichenbach 

 to W. velata. The late Mr. Day informed us that Blunt's plants 

 proved somewhat variable in the size and colour of the flowers^ 

 and that he was unable to distinguish some of the forms from the 

 original W. marginata which he had cultivated. 



The above description was taken from a plant that flowered in 

 our houses a few years ago, and on comparing the flower with the 

 plates of Warrea quadrata and Warf-ceiciczella velata in the Botanical 

 Magazine it proved to be intermediate between them. We have 

 therefore no hesitation in reducing the latter to a synonym of the 

 former,* or which is the same thing, in referring both to Zi/gopetalum 

 viarginatam. 



Z. maxillare. 



Rhizome creeping, flexuose, as thick as an ordinary writing pencil. 

 Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, 2 —3 inches long, more or less compressed, 

 diphyllous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, sub-acuminate, prominently 

 veined, narrowed at the base, 8 — 15 inches long. Scapes erect or 

 slightly nodding, as long as or longer than the leaves, 5 — 7 or more 



flowered ; bracts brown, ovate, acute, about an inch long. Flowers 

 2| inches across vertically ; sepals and petals spreading, bronzy brown 

 with light green transverse streaks ; the sepals oval-oblong, apiculate ; 

 the petals similar but narrower ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes narrowly 

 oblong, erect, joined to the semi-lunate violet-purple, fleshy crest that is 



* The analytical details of the two forms in Xenia Orchidacea, I. t. 23, appear to have 

 been drawn from imperfect materials ; they are evidently too crude to be reliable. 



