66 ZYGOPETALDM. 



ridges of the crest dark violet-blue, the furrows whitish. Column 



violet-purple above, streaked below the stigma. 



Zygopetalum Clayi, Rchb. in Card. Chron. VII. (1877), p. 684. Williams' Orch. 

 Alb. II. t. 50. 



Raised by Colonel Clay, of Wallassy, Birkenhead. 



Z. Sedenii. 



Z. maxillare X Z. Maclmyi. 

 Pseudo-bulbs and leaves nearly as in Z ygopetalum maxillare. Racemes 

 6 — 9 flowered. Flowers intermediate in size between those of the 

 parents ; sepals and petals brownish purple with a metallic gloss and 

 sometimes with 2—3 pale transverse bands ; lip bright violet-blue, more 

 or less striated ; crest and column dark violet-blue, 



Zygopetalum Sedenii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. (1874), p. 290. 

 Raised by Seden at our nursery. This was the first hybrid Zygo- 

 petalum raised. 



Zygocolax leopardinus. 



Zygopetalum maxillare X Colax jugosus. 



Pseudo -bulbs ovoid, compressed, 1 — 2 inches long, diphyllous. Leaves 



linear-lanceolate, acute, 6 — 9 inches long. Racemes 3 — 5 flowered, 



Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, 



whitish spotted and marked with brown-purple ; lip three-lobed, the side 



lobes rotund, erect, indigo-blue ; the fleshy crest between them nearly 



as in Zygop)etalum maxillare, the ridges blue and the furrows white ; 



the front lobe transversely roundish oblong, indigo-blue, sparingly mottled 



with white. Column broad, purplish blue, anther white. 



Zygocolax leopardinus, supra. Zygopetalum leopardinum, Kchb. in Gard. Chron. 

 XXVI. (1886), p. 199. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery. The influence of the pollen parent 



seems to have been quite subordinate. It is decidedly the handsomest 



of the Zygopetalum hybrids yet obtained. 



Z. Veitchii. 



Zygopetalum Mackayi crinitum X Colax jugosus. 

 Pseudo-bulbs broader and shorter than in Colax jugosus ; the leaves 

 narrower, and the racemes shorter and fewer-flowered than in Zygo- 

 petalum Mackayi. Flowers 3 inches across the lateral sepals ; sepals and 

 petals similar and sub-equal, spreading, broader than in the Zygopetalum, 

 narrower than in the Colax, light yellow-green much spotted and blotched 

 with brown-purple ; lip with two basal auricles, sub-orbicular, the 

 central area white with radiating lines of violet-purple papillae, the 

 marginal area violet-purple striated. Column yellow-green spotted with 

 brown-purple. 



Zygocolax Veitchii, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3. (1887), p. 765. Id. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. XXIV. p. 170, with figs. 



