756 orcht[-grower"s manual. 



WARSCEWICZELLA, Reichenbach Jil. 

 (_Trihc Vandeae, i^iihtnic Cyrtopodieae.) 

 A small group of epiphytal ebulbous species, sometimes included 

 in Zyrjopetalum. It has the sepals and petals lanceolate, obliquely 

 inserted, often undulated, and the lip, which is continuous with the 

 short foot of the column, is clawed and dilated, bearing on its disk a 

 depressed callus. The plants are without pseudobulbs, and the scapes 

 are one-flowered. There are about half a dozen species, all from Central 

 America. 



Culture. — The treatment recommended for Zygopetalum will also suit 

 these plants. They are often killed by having too much heat, and they 

 must have plenty of water all the year round, for they seem never to 

 require any rest. They will do on blocks, but in that case live sphagnum 

 should be put about their roots ; or they may be grown in pots with peat 

 and moss, and good drainage. 



W. AROMATIC*, Echh. f. — A rare and little known plant, of moderately 

 vigorous growth, the cuneate oblong acute leaves springing from the root 

 crown, along with the erect scape, which bears a solitary flower 3 or 4 inches 

 in diameter, of which the lanceolate acute sepals and petals are white, and the 

 large obrenifOrm multi-lobulate slightly crispy lip is azure darkening to purple 

 at the base,' and having a white border; the disk is smooth, and at the con- 

 tracted base is a large semi-lunate mauy-furrowed callus. It emits a very 

 strong but agreeable perfume, and succeeds in a pot with peat iind sphagnum 

 moss. — Central America ; Ghiriqui. 



Fia.—Xenin, drch., i. t. 73 ; Gnrd. Cliron , 1868, p. 75, with fig. 

 Syn. — Zijrippetalurn aromatlcum ; Ilwatli'ija aromatloa. 



W. CANDIDA, Mclib. f. — An extremely rare and handsome species of dwarf 

 habit, seldom growing more than 8' or 9 inches in height ; the few oblong- 

 ligulate leaves form a loose distichous tuft, from the axils of which both tho roots 

 and peduncles are protruded ; the flowers are 2| inches across, the lanceolate 

 acute sepals and the broader reflexed petals white, and the quadrato-hastate 

 lip rosy-purple in the centre, with a broad bluish-tinted margin, the disk 

 bearing a large obtriangular ivory-white callus with a retuse flve-toothed 

 apex, and marked with five distinct bluish-purple bars. — Bahia. 



VlG.—Pesoatorea, t. 15 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., i. p. 32, f. 22. 

 Syn. — Warrea Candida ; Ilmitlcija Candida ; H. radiam. 



W. LINDcNII, Hort. — A very chaste and beautiful species, allied to W. 

 marginaia. The flowers are however much larger in all their parts, and the 

 crest is simply bicuspidate, colour pure white, having a few raised purple lines 



