ZVGOPETALUM. 759 



Zygopetalon. The flowers are generally produced during the winter 

 months, a circumstance which makes them specially valuable as decorative 

 plants. 



OwZ^Mre.— Most of the species are rather large-growing plants, of easy 

 culture. The Gattleya house is the most suitable place in which to grow 

 them, and they are best kept in pots, with peat and good drainage, and 

 with plenty of water at the roots when growing. They are propagated 

 by dividing the plants. 



Z. AFRICANUM.— See Odontoglossum bictoniense. 

 Z. AROMATICUM.— See Warscewiczella aromatica. 

 Z. BACKHOUSEANUM.— See PescaIorea Backhouseana. 

 Z. BELLUM.— See Pesoatobea bella. 



Z. BRACHYPETALUM, Lindl. — ^A handsome species, with ensiform lanceolate 

 leaves, shorter than the tall many-flowered scape ; the flowers are showy, with 

 short stiS convex oblong obtuse sepals and petals, which are brown, a little 

 marbled with green, much more brown than green from the blotches running 

 together, the transverse roundish emarginate lip, which is white, veined with 

 deep bluish- violet ; the crest or frill of the lip is closely striped with blue. It 

 blooms in December, lasting long in perfection. — Brazil : Minas. 



Fig. — Jown. Hort. Soc, iv. p. xi., with fig. ; Gartenflora, 1888, t. 1277. 



Z. BURKEI, Bchh. f. — A very distinct species, which was exhibited by 

 Messrs. J. Veitoh & Sons at the Royal Horticultural Society in November, 1883. 

 The pseudobulbs are clustered, narrow oblong, furrowed, about 3 inches long, 

 bearing a couple of elongate lanceolate acuminate nervose leaves, and a radical 

 scape with four or five curiously marked elegant flowers, of which the ovate 

 lanceolate sepals and petals are green, thickly marked with longitudinal bands 

 of brown, which here and there break up into spots ; the unguiculate obovate 

 lip is white, with a ruff of about thirteen crimson plaits or folds. It flowers in 

 November and December. — Guiana; Demerara. 



Fig. — Ort^hid Album; iii. t. 112. 



Z. BURTII.— See Batemannia Bitrtii. 



Z. CERINUM.— See Pescatorea ceeina. 



Z. CITRINUM.— See Promenaea citrina. 



Z. CLAYI, Bchh. f. — This distinct and beautiful hybrid, the result of a 

 cross between Z. crinitwm and Z. maxillare, was raised by Colonel Clay, of 

 Birkenhead, and flowered for the first time in 1877. We had the honour of 

 distributing this plant, having purchased the entire stock from him. It is of 

 very free-growing habit, having oblong furrowed pseudobulbs about 3 inches 

 long, and evergreen lanceolate nervose leaves If foot in length; it is also a 



