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WARREA. 



Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. p. 14. Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 545. 

 In Ms revision of Maxillaria in the miscellaneous matter of the 

 Botanical Register of 1843, Dr. Lindley separated Maxillaria Warreana 

 from that genus on account of the very different form of its perianth, 

 and founded upon it the genus which he named in compliment to 

 Mr. Warre, a correspondent of Messrs. Loddiges, who introduced 

 the plant from Brazil, as they erroneously reported, its actual habitat 

 being in northern Colombia. The only genuine Warrea known 

 to us is the species here noticed, which is a very handsome one, 

 and which should not be omitted from this work, although now 

 but rarely seen. 



Warrea tricolor. 



" Pseudo-bulbs sub-cylindric, attenuated upwards, 4 — 5 inches long. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, much attenuated at the base, 



12 — 18 inches long. Scapes longer than the leaves, terete, jointed, 



purple, sheathed with closely appressed bracts, racemed above, 8 — 10 



or more flowered. Flowers large and sub-globose ; sepals and petals 



similar, roundish ovate, concave, acute, white tinged externally Avith 



yellow, the two lateral sepals ending beloAV in an obtuse spur ; lip 



obovate, white, beautifully painted within with yeUow and dark purple, 



the basal half concave with three elevated ridges, the apical half 



spreading, obscurely lobed and waved and with several crisped lamellae. 



Column short, semi-cylindric." — Botanical Magazine. 



Warrea tricolor, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. p. 14. Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. 

 p. 63. t. 24, figs. 1 and 2. Maxillaria Warreana, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 148 

 (1832). Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1884. Bot. Mag. t. 4235. 



First cultivated by Messrs. Loddiges in 1829, but it appears to 



have been but little known till it was introduced from Santa 



Martha, in northern Colombia, by Purdie to the Royal Gardens at 



Kew, where it flowered in 1845; its habitat thence became known, 



and it has since been sparingly imported from the same region. 



Excluded Species. 

 Warrea ) 



1- 1 /y • 11 \ ( now referred to Zygopetalum candidum (Rchb.) 



cyanea (Lindl.) ... ,, „ Aganisia cyanea (Benth.) 



discolor (Lindl.) ... „ ,, Zygopetalum discolor (Benth.) 



quadra ta (Lindl.) ... „ ,, „ marginatum (Rchb.) 



marginata (Rchb.) ... ,, „ „ marginatum (Rchb.) 



Wailesiana (Lindl.) .. . „ ,, ,, Wailesianum (Rchb.) 



