Plate 127. 



W ARSCE WIZ ELLA QUADRAT A 



Square-disced Warscewizella 



Oen. Ghar. Perigonium carnoso-membranaceura, oblique insertum. Lahelliim brevissime 

 unguiculatum^ subquadratnuij lobatum^ basi cucullato columnam amplectens, casterum planiusculum, 

 basi lamelliferum. Mentum modicum. Columna semiteres^ fovea triangulari angusfcd sub rostello 

 trilobo abscondita^ lobus rostelli medius prosiliens. Anthera depresso-mitrata^ apiculata^ valvis 

 posticis persistentibus^ bilocularis. Pollmia 2 depressa^ oblonga^ alte bipartita^ in caudicnlu 

 ligulataj apice hastata. Glandula rliombea. [Character ex Reichenhach.) 



Warscewizella quadrafa ; labelli lobo medio orbiculari retuso lateralibus scmiovatis conniventi- 

 bus, appendice camosa subquadrata sulcata apice obtuse tridontata. LhuU, 



Wareea quadrata. Lindl. in Gard. Ghron. 1853, p. 647. Bot. Mag. i. 4706. 

 ? Warscewizella marginata. Pescatorea. 



I confess that I cannot bring myself to believe that this plant is specifically dis- 

 tinct from the W. velata, figured at t. 5582 of the ' Botanical Magazine,' nor from the 

 W. marginata of Reichenhach. I have however retained Dr. Lindley's" name, which 



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may serve to distinguish the plant as a well-marked variety, even if its claim to be re- 

 garded as a species should have eventually to be given up. 



The specimen from which the figure was derived flowered in November 1853, 

 with Messrs. Jackson, of Kingston, to whom is due the credit of having first discovered 

 the value of cool treatment as applied to a numerous class of Orchids. Under this 

 system all the Warscewizellas grow and flower freely, while on the contrary they 

 always languish in a hot temperature. 



The plant Avas introduced by Warszewicz from Central America. 



Descr. Pseudohulhs none. From a few large, fleshy, fibrous roots, a cluster of 

 leaves rises nearly erect, a span or more long, very obscurely veined, oblong, shortly but 

 narrowly acuminated, plain or slightly carinate, jointed upon a narrowed but conduph- 

 cate base : there a few brownish scales at the base of these leaves. Scapes radical, 

 from within the leaves, but shorter than the leaves, erect, with two or three sheathing 

 scales at the base, bearing a single inclined or drooping, large, sweet-scented //>//-^r. 

 Sepals white, or very pale greenish straw-colour, lanceolate ; the lateral ones singularly 

 reflexed and twisted. PetaU of the same colour, ovato-lanceolate, recurved. Lip very 



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