C Wat 
a Y.02| 
(A ee 
BE COCRXXKVI 
ZYGOPETALUM (WARSCEWICZELLA) LINDENI xotrz. 
M. LINDEN’S ZYGOPETALUM. 
ZYGOPETALUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 27. 
Zygopetal (War. iczella) Lindeni. Folia elliptico-lanceolata, acuta, plicata, basi attenuata, conduplicata, 
circa 15-22 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata. Pedunculi foliis multo breviores, uniflori. Bracteae lanceolatae, acuminatae, 
circa I-3 cm. longae. Sepala-lanceolato acuminata, posticum 3.5 cm. longum, 1.2 cm. latum, lateralia paullo longiora. 
Petala sepalo postico similia. Labellum trilobum, 5.5 cm. longum, lobis lateralibus triangulis obtusis incurvis, lobo 
medio maximo suborbiculari retuso undulato, callo late triangulo apice bicuspidato. Columna clavata, 1-8 cm. longa. 
Zygopetalum (War. iczella) Lindeni ROLFE, supra. 
Warscewiczella Lindent Horv., Fourn. of Hort., 1892, pt. I, pp. 449, 461, fig. 79. 
his handsome species was exhibited by Messrs. Linpen, L’Horricut- 
TURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, on June 7", last, when it was awarded a First-class Certi- 
meatal It was imported by this firm, but its precise habitat has not been recorded. 
Botanically it is allied to Z. marginatum Reus. ¥. and Z. ionoleucum Reus. F., 
especially to the latter, from which it may be distinguished by its much larger 
size and simply bicuspidate crest; in fact the lip of Z. Lindeni is fully twice 
as long as that of Z. ionoleucum, and very much broader. The colour of our 
novelty is pure white, with a few light purple radiating lines on the disc. 
R. A. Rote. 
L'HORTICULTURE INTERNATIONALE 
(LINDEN). 
This powerful nursery company was founded four years ago on the nurseries 
of Monsieur J. Linpen, who had built up for himself a great reputation in Ghent, 
where during the greater part of half a century he occupied himself with the 
introduction and cultivation of beautiful exotic plants of all kinds. What Verrcu, 
Low and several others were to English, LinpEn was to Belgian horticulture. But 
Ghent is provincial, and Monsieur LinpeEn felt that Brussels could afford much 
greater opportunities for the success of his enterprise. His anticipations have 
been more than realized, for not only does his “ Société Anonyme ” include 
some of the most influential and richest of Belgian amateurs, but the result 
of his venture has been to create among the wealthy residents in Brussels, as 
Os 
