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very free-flowering plant, producing its large showy blossoms in racemes on 

 radical scapes at different times of the year according to its period of growth ; 

 the sepals and petals are deep purplish-brown, with a narrow green margin 

 and transverse bands of the same running through and in some cases forming 

 broad blotches ; the lip is broad, IJ inch wide, deep violet purple with darker 

 purple lines, and paler at the edge, the ruff or callus being whitish with bluish 

 violet plaits. — Garden hyirid. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 50; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 2C7 ; L-Orcliidopliih-, 1884, 

 p. 2U; U., 1886, p. 327. 



2. COCHLEARE, L'mdl. — This species produces its flowers singly, having 

 white sepals and petals wax-like in texture ; the large lip is deeply bilobed and 

 veined with bluish-pUrple. The flowers are produced in autumn, and are 

 powerfully fragrant. — Trinidad. 



Fia.—Journ. of Ilort., 1889, xviii. p. 333, f . 52. 



Z. CRINITUM, Loddiges. — A handsome species, with ovate pseudobulbs, and 

 lorate-lanceolate plicate loaves, shorter than the scapes, which spring from the 

 base of the bulb and support a raceme of several large beautifully variegated 

 flowers, which are produced in winter, and last a long time in perfection. 

 Sometimes two spikes come from the same pseudobulb. The oblong-lanceolate 

 sepals and petals are green, barred with brown, and the broad obovate emar- 

 ginate lip is white or cream-coloured, streaked with coloured veins which are 

 densely hairy; the callus is small and incurved, yellow. — Brazil. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3-102 ; Zodd. But. Cal., 1. 1687 ; MooK Fimt Cent. Orcli. PL, t. 71 ; 

 Revm Hort. Beige, 1889, p. 145, t. 13; Tlw Garden, 1892, xlii. p. 140, t. 870; Veitch's 

 3fan. Orch. PI., ix. p. 67. 



Stn. — Z. Machaiji erinitum. 



L. CRINITUM COERULEUM, ITorf.— A very beautiful variety, having flowers 

 y inches or more across ; sepals and petals oblong acute yellowish-green heavily 

 blotched and streaked with ferruginous brown; lip large, undulated at the 

 margin, pubescent, white beautifully marked with forked and radiating downy 

 lines of bluish-purple. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ix. t. 410. 



Z. DAYANUM — See Pescatokea Dayana. 



Z. GAIRIANUM — See Pescatokea Gaikiaxa. 



Z. GAUTIERI, Lemah-e. — ^An elegant and most desirable plant. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are oblong, deeply furrowed, and bear dark green elongate-oblong plaited 

 leaves ; the flowers are large, several in a drooping raceme on scapes springing 

 up with and in the midst of the young leaf tufts ; the sepals and petals are 

 oblong acute, green, heavily blotched and transversely barred with brown, and 

 the lip is deep purplish-blue, lighter at the edge, the ruff or frill around the 

 column large and of a deep velvety-purple. There are several varieties of this 

 plant in which the colour of the lip ranges from a pale mauve to a deep bluish- 

 purple. This species grows well either in a basket or on a raft. — Bradl. 

 , ., Fm.—Z'Ill. Hort., t. 535 (pale lip); Orchid Album, 1. t. 23; Lindeuia. vi. t. 284. 



