WAKSCEWICZELLA WENDLANDI DISCOLOR 



[Plate 126.] 



Jiative of Costa Rica. 



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Epiphytal. Stemless, ebulbous, producing only a tuft of leaves nnd flown.- 

 from the crown of the roots. Leaves cuneate, oLlono:-lio:ulate, acute, somcwlhit 

 plicate, broad and channelled below, amplectant at the base, of a liglit gronn 

 colour. Scapes solitary, issuing from the leaf axils, about half as Joiifj ns tlic 

 leaves, and furnished in the upper part with a two-valved bluntisli sjnitliG, wliicli 

 is rather shorter than the united ovary and pedicel. Flowers raodcr;ito]y Inrp'f". 



from four to five inches in their broadest diameter, stollntrly exj ndcd, 



interesting from the peculiar form of their lip, and pleasing frnin the contrast "f 



their colours ; sepals lanceolate, " white," the dorsal one erect, the latornl ^ oiu-^ 

 somewhat deflexed; petals of the same form and colour, spreading, i^nmowhat twibt«'<l ; 

 Up projected forwards, ovate-cordate, the apex recurved, about an iixli and a half 

 broad, the edges multilobulate and much undulated, white, the centre plnno, with n 

 large oblong blotch of violet-purple marked longitudinally by about seven dark«T 

 purple lines, the base constricted, white, with a short chin behind ; frill or ruff 

 small, with about seven to nine violet-purple stripes, semilunate, gradually (liminishiMj,^ 

 bar'kwards till lost in the chin or mentum. Column white, thickened upwanN. 

 seniiterete. 



Warscewiczella Wendlandi, Reichenhach fil, in htteris. 



Zygopetalum Wendlandi, Reichenhach fil, Beitrage zu einer OrchidccnhnA' 

 Central- Amerikas, 74:. 



Var. DISCOLOR, sepals and petals yellowish green. 

 Warscewiczella Wendlandi discolor. Reichenhach fil, in Htteris ad cl, Snr •. 



Both by Reichenhach in his various writings, and by Benthnm in the rer-r"ntl> 



published Genera Flantarum. the group named Warsceimczella is included uikI.t 



group 



Zyyopetalum. Putting' aside the question of minute botanical details we prrfrr 

 tliis case, to be rather guided by habit, since habit is so important a f.Hor m all 

 that concerns cultivation. Thus, while the species and varieties of Zy<jopr(>tlH.. 

 produce pseudobulbs, those of Warsceiviczella are ebulbous, and this diff^ren. ■ n.- jj- 

 tatcs a material distinction in the mode of cultivation to be adopto'l fur the ^^. I - 

 ^>-ing of the two groups. . . ^ ^^^^ 



The variety of Warscewiczella Wendlandi, which we now illustrate, is « we 

 marked form as regards the distinctive colours of th. sepals and the lalM<llum or up , 

 It iB a small plant of compact growth, taking but little room, and blooming Ten ir-. y 

 Our drawing was taken from a healthy specimen in the interesting cullecuon ot 

 A. H. Smee, Esq., of the Grange, Carshalton, who is trying man) 



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