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PL. CCCXCII. 
ZYGOPETALUM GRANDIFLORUM uems. 
THE LARGE FLOWERED ZYGOPETALUM. 
ZYGOPETALUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 27. 
Zygopetalum grandiflorum. Pseudobulbi ovati, lucidi, diphylli. Folia valde coriacea, lanceolata, acutissima. 
Scapi basilares, breves, 2-5-flori. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, acutae. Sepala | 1 patentia, subaequali 
Petala sepalis similia. Labellum brevissime unguiculatum, articulatum, trilobum, lobo intermedio late orbiculari-ovato 
denticulato apice acuminato recurvo, | erectis semi blongis denticulatis, crista carnosa transversa 
spinoso-denticulata. Columna arcuata, alis rotundato-oblongis truncatis denticulatis. 
Zygopetalum grandiflorum HEMSL. Biol. Centr. Amer., Il, p. 251. — VeItcH Man. Orch., IX, p. 52. 
Galeottia grandiflora Ricu. et GAL. in Ann. Se. Nat., sér. 3, III, p. 25. 
Batemania grandiflora Reus. F. in Bonplandia, IV (1856), p. 323. — Ip. in Wap. Ann., VI, p. 555. — 
Bot. Mag., t. 5567. 
his is a very remarkable species, and very seldom met with in culti- 
vation. It was originally described by Ricnarp and Gaterorti, under 
| the name of Galeottia grandiflora, from dried specimens collected by 
the latter in Mexico. 
It appears to have next been met with in New Granada, by the collec- 
tors of M. J. Linpen, who sent living plants to Europe. One of the earliest 
cultivators of the plant was the late M. Sicismunp Rucker, of West Hill, 
Wandsworth, in whose collection it flowered in 1865 (probably not for the first 
time, however), when it was figured in the Botanical Magazine. 
It was also met with in British Honduras, in April, 1887, by M. Brancaneaux, 
who sent dried specimens to Messrs James Verrcu & Sons, of Chelsea. M. Bian- 
CANEAUX States that he found the plant in full bloom at 3,600 feet elevation, in a 
temperature ranging from 50 to 85 degrees. It was growing on a tree overhanging 
a mountain stream in an entirely shady place, a species of Stanhopea also 
growing profusely in the same locality, which it somewhat resembled in habit. 
This note is interesting, as affording an indication of the treatment necessary 
for the successful cultivation of the plant. 
The species appears to be very widely diffused, for a recent importation 
is said to have been made from northern Peru, where it was met with by 
Mr. Buncerorg, in the province of Truxillo. 
It is a somewhat anomalous species, referred to the section Huntleya, with 
the other species of Batemania described by Reicuensacu, though it differs from 
its allies in having pseudobulbs, and a two- to five-flowered inflorescence. The 
scapes are very short, and the flowers three inches in diameter. The sepals and 
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