SH 



ORCHIDS 



Zygopetaliim. 

 are 3in. to 3',in. in diameter. The sepals and petals are broadly 

 ■ovate, and white, traversed by close reddish-purple parallel lines. 

 The small lip is of a deep mauve-purple, three-lobed, and very 

 much narrowed at the base, the side lobes being folded towards 



P"iG. 174. Flower-spike (if Zvgopetalum ^Ia( kaii 

 (much reduced). 



the column ; the middle lobe is clothed in a remarkable manner 

 with coarse purplish hairs, and the callus, which consists of about 

 a dozen longitudinal ridges, is of a chestnut-brown. Considerable 

 variation in colour appears in different plants ; in some, the lines 



