60 ZYGOPETALUM. 



ridged and furrowed on the inner side ; the front lobe snb-orbicnlar 



with sinuate marr:;in, violet-blue, paler at the margin. Column broad, 



arched, concave below the stigma. 



Zygopetalum maxillare, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1776. Lindl. Gen. et Sp, Orch. p. 

 188 (1832). Id. in £oi. Reg. 1844, misc. No. 15. Paxt. Mag. Bot. IV. p. 271 

 (1838). Bot. Mag. t. 3686. Kchb. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 660. 



var.— Gautieri. 



Plant somewhat more robust. Flowers a little larger with all the 



segments broader ; the violet-lilue of the labellum sometimes spotted 



and striated with deeper blue.* 



Z. maxillare Gautieri, Kegel's Gartetifl. XIX. t. 644. Z. Gautieri, Illus. horl. 

 XIV. t. 535. Williams' Orch, Alb. I. 't. 28. Lindenia, VI p. 284. 



Zygopetalnm maxillare was originally introduced from Rio de Janeiro 

 in 1829 by Messrs. Loddiges through their correspondent^ Mr. Warre. 

 Nine years later it was detected on the Organ Mountains by 

 Gardner^ who was the first to communicate to Dr, Lindley the fact 

 that this orchid always grows on the stems of tree-ferns^ upon 

 pieces of which it is often imported. The variety Gautieri differs 

 so little from the original form that we hesitatingly give it even 

 varietal distinction ; it was originally sent to M. Yerschaffelt, of 

 Ghent, in 1867, from Santa Catherina, in southern Brazil, by 

 M. Gautier. 



The species was named maxillare by Messrs. Loddiges, from the 

 fanciful resemblance of the crest and cohimn to the jaws of an 

 animal; the rich violet-blue of the labellum — an unusual colour in 

 orchids — has caused the species to be much appreciated by amateurs. 



Z. Meleagris. 



Leaves distichous and alternate, ligulate, acute, equitant at base, 



9 — 12 inches long. Peduncles much shorter than the leaves, one 



flowered. Flowers fleshy, 3 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals 



similar and sub-equal, spreading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, white at 



the base, yellow in the centre, and the apical half red-brown speckled 



with yellow ; lip with a short broad claw and cordate, apiculate blade, 



white with the apical area yellowish brown, and with a semi-circular 



fringed white crest at the base. Column acutely triquetral, white 



with a bilobed greenish wing on each side of the stigma. 



Zygopetalum Meleagris, Benth. in Gen. Plant. III. p. 543 (1883). Huntleya 

 ]\Ieleagris, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. No. 20 ; and 1839, t. 14. Godefroy's 

 Orchidophile, 1889, p. 49. Batemania Meleagris, Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 185, t. 

 66. figs. 1 and 2. Id. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 555. Kegel's Gartenft-. 1883. t. 

 1114, fig. 2. 



* In the typical form figured in V Illustration horticole, the anterior lobe of the lip is 

 •white. 



