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PL. CCCCXVII. 
ZYGOPETALUM INTERMEDIUM opp. var. PERUVIANUM zoxre. 
THE INTERMEDIATE ZYGOPETALUM, PERUVIAN VARIETY. 
ZYGOPETALUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 27. 
Zygopetalum intermedium. Pseudobulbi globi idei. Folia oblongo-l 1 acuta, Scapus erectus pluri- 
florus. Bracteae triangulo-ovatae, acutae, concavae. Flores speciosi. Sepala elliptico-oblonga, acuta. Petala sepalis 
similia. Labellum basi angustum, dein subito dilatatum, cordato-reniforme, emarginatum, venis venulisque plus minus 
velutinis; callus tumidus, bilobus, sulcatus, praesertim in sulco mediano velutino. Columna clavata. 
Zygopetalum intermedium Lopp. Orch. (1842), p. 19 (nomen). — LinpL. Bot. Reg., XXX, Misc., p. 9. — 
Reichenbachia, ser. I, vol. 1, p. 37, t. 15. 
Eulophia Mackaiana LinDL. in Bot, Reg., t. 1433. 
Zygopetalum Mackayi Paxt. Mag. Bot., Ill, p. 97, cum ic. — Hartina Parad. Vindeb., p. 20, t. 34. — 
Reus. F. in WAP. Ann., VI, p. 661, partim. 
Zygopetalum velutinum Hor‘MGG Bot. Zeit., 1843, p. 835. 
Zygopetalum Mackayi var. intermedium Verrcu Man. Orch., IX, p. 57. 
Var, peruvianum Roire, floribus paullo minoribus. 
he history of this handsome species is very much confused, as the 
plant is variously confounded in the books with its two allies, Z. Mackayi 
Hoox. and Z. crinitum Lopp. It was originally figured in the Botanical 
Register for 1831, under the name of Eulophia Mackaiana, D' Linpuey then 
supposing it be synonymous with Z. Mackayi Hoox., and in reality a species 
of Eulophia. He remarks — “ This most lovely species is, of all the Orchideous 
tribe, one of the most deserving cultivation; not only because of the size and rich 
colours of its flowers, but also because it succeeds well with ordinary care, and 
blossoms frequently. We have not seen it thriving better than in the Garden 
of the Horticultural Society, where it is grown in pots, filled with moss or 
rotten wood, and hung by wires from the rafters of the stove. ” It flowered 
for the first time in 1828. The introducer is not stated. 
Some time afterwards Messrs Loppices, of Hackney, obtained plants, to 
which they gave the name of Z. intermedium, presumably in allusion to its 
supposed relationship to Z. Mackay: Hoox. and Z. crimitum Lopp. The name 
was adopted by Linpiey, who failed to recognise its identity with his Eulophia 
Mackaiana, though he called it “ perhaps the finest of the genus. ” 
Paxton, and later Harrincer, also figured the plant under the erronous 
name of Z. Mackayi. ReicHENBACH, in WaALPER’s Annales, united the two, but 
afterwards in the Reichenbachia, cleared up the confusion, though the old errors 
have since been reproduced on more than one occasion, which is not to be 
wondered at, considering how much they have been confused. On the other 
hand the plant figured at t. 216 of this work as Z. intermedium is Z. crinitum 
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