ZYGOPETALUM BURKEI 



[Plate 142.] 



Native of Demerara. 



Epiphytal, 

 tetrao'onal, the 



4 



Pseudohulbs clustered, narrow ohlong, over two inches long, erect, shinin 



nervose, somew 

 raceme of four or five fl 

 of the pedicels. JFlo 

 character : 5 



face furrowed, diph) 

 leathery in consistence. 



L 



Scap 



elongate-lanceolate 



radical, pale gr 



acuminate 



hearin 



furnished with ovate pale green b 



at the 



a 

 ase 



about two inches across, of a peculiar and distinctive 



seven wavy 



■pals 



close 



lanceolate, the lateral ones deflexed, bright gr 



with about 



bands of dark 



brow 



the b 



t longitudinal 



tendency to break up into lines of spots, wholly 



colour as the sepals : lip unguiculate, auricled on 



having 



g 



outside ; petals spreadin 



0". 



a 

 of 



the 

 froi 



same 



foi 



nn 



and 



of the claw, ob 



both sides m 



with a broad 



rounded 



apex, ' undulated margin, and 



furnished behind the disk with a callus or ruff of thirteen crimson plaits or 



ribs 



Col 



thick, greenish 



w 



ith two pr 



Zygopet 



BuRKEi, Reichenhach Jil 



m 



Gard 



linear auricles. 

 ners' Chronicle 



N.S., XX 



) 



684 



♦ 



This 



that 



new species is a very 



pretty free-blooming pi 



It belongs to a g 



is well known to plant g 



and among 



some 



grand 



decorat 



plants 



indeed 



we 



t> 



the species of which there are 

 lly find some of these plants 



wherever there ;s a stove, even if Orchids generally 

 Zygopetalum Maclcayi, Z. 



not professed to be 



OTOwn. 



maxillai 



and 



Z. 



Gautie) 



are 



the 



most useful 



Of late some new hybrids have been 



oduced, namely 



Z. 



Sedeni and Z, 



Clay 



which latter will be found 



figured 



at Plat 



50 



of our second volume. 



The 



species now under notice w\is 



oduced by the Messrs. Veitch & S 



m 



and 



Kens 

 speci( 



that has 



their fine collection it bloomed last Novemb 



and was 



of Chelsea 



exhibited at Soutl 



1 



o 



gaming a 



Fii' 



Class Certificate 



It win be found to be a 



most useful 



for general cultivation 



We believe Me 



Veitch 



to be the 



} 



flowered in this country 



Zygopetalum Burhei is a 



native of Demerara, and was found, it 



Sir Robert Schomburgk some forty ye 



since, 



It 



and 



:ently 



home by Messrs. Veitch 



but had not be 

 collector, Mr. Burke, after 



appears, 

 .--reduced until 

 hom it is named. 



is an 



evergreen 



species 



with long narrow 



erect ri 



bbed four-cornered pseudobulbs 



light 



green folia 



the 



pals 



,nd petals are 



rreen, spo 



i barred witl 



1 



brown, and the lip °is white, with a crest of crimson strii 



or 



ribs 



It blooms 



durino; 



The 



the autumn months, and lasts for several weeks in bloom 



E 



Ind 



house is the most 



table 



m w 



most of the species 



of Zygopetalum like the temperatu 



hich to cultivate it, for 

 therein maintained, and, 



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