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P. BELLA, Rchb. f. — Eeichenbacli described this as being a grand beauty, 

 ■with, flowers larger than those of P. cerina. The sepals and petals are light or 

 whitish violet, and have near their tips a broad band of the darkest purplish- 

 violet ; the lip is rather hooded, and of a whitish-yellow colour, with a large 

 hippocrepiform callus, consisting of twenty-one ribs, the keels of which are 

 purplish on their back line, the tip of the lip showing a large purplish violet 

 blotch; the column is purplish with a triangular yellowish- white space at 

 the base, covered with numerous purplish spots. It flowers during the spring 

 months. — New Orenada. 



Stn. — Zygopetalwm iellmn. 



P. CERINA, Bchh. f. — ^A beautiful bulbless species, which produces from the 

 crown tufts of several cuneate-oblong acuminate leaves 1 foot long, and from 



their axils one-flowered j)e- 

 duncles much shortef than 

 the leaves, each producing 

 a handsome flower some 

 3 inches across ; the sepals 

 and petals are fleshy, con- 

 cave, roundish oblong, of a 

 pale waxy straw-colour, the 

 lateral sepals being rather 

 darker ; and the lip is 

 yellow, clawed, ovate con- 

 vex retuse, with a thick 

 semi-circular ruff or crest 

 of numerous truncate plaits, 

 within which is sometimes 

 a band of deep purple, 

 surrounding the base of 

 the short clavate hoodless 

 column. The plant is slow 

 in growth but of easy cul- 

 ture, producing at various 

 seasons its delicate-coloured 

 flowers, which are of very 

 long duration. — Veragua, 

 Chiriqui, elevatiou 8,000 

 feet. 



Vm.—Bot. Mag., t. 559R ; 

 Batem. Second Cent. Ot'ch.Pl., 

 t. 183 ; Xenia OrcU., i. t. 65 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1815 ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 93 ; 

 Paxton, Fl. Gard., iii. p. 62, f. 263 ; Orchid Allmm ,' in. t. 394 ; Journ. ofllort., 1892, 

 XXV. p. 35, f . 5. 



Syn. — Huntleya cerina ; Zygopetalum oerinum. 



P. DAYANA, Bclib. f. — A very pretty and distinct species, with flowers 

 similar in shape to those of P. cerina. The oblong-obovate sepals and roundish 

 rhomboidal petals are of a milky white, the sepals tipped with green ; the clawed 

 oblong retuse emarginate lip, angulate at the base, is white, with the ru£E or 

 ring of folds forming the elevated callus purplish-violet, the base as well as the 



PESCATOBEA CEKINA. 



