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Zygopetalum. 



the lip is three-lobed, the front lobe being the largest and 

 coloured yellow, whilst the side lobes are erect, and spotted 

 and barred with purple. When properly cultivated, this species 

 forms a compact tuft of healthy leaves, and produces annually 

 a very prolific crop of its pretty flowers, which remain fresh on 

 the plant about a month. Brazil about 1838. (Fig. 175, for 

 which we are indebted to the Editor of " The Garden" • B R 

 1S3S, t. 40.) 



Z. rostratum {Hook). — A large-flowered, well-known species, 

 from British Guiana, where it is common on small trees in the 

 shade of forests. It has a creeping rhizome, bearing, at intervals 

 of lin., ovate, flattened, two-edged pseudo-bulbs 2in. long, at 

 first inclosed in the sheathing portions of the basal leaves. The 

 permanent leaves are 5in. long, ijin. wide, acute at the ape.v, 

 dark green. The scapes, which are developed with the new 

 growths, are 4in. long, and bear from one to three flowers, each 

 from 4in. to 6in. across ; the sepals and petals are narrow, 

 spreading, white ; and the broad, heart-shaped lip is nearly 3in. 

 long, flat, white, with a rose-purple crest and radiating lines of 

 the same colour. The column is short and thick, with a pair ot 

 ear-like wings near the ape.x. This species requires the same 

 treatment as Z. maxillare, but a higher temperature, the moist, 

 hot stove being most suitable for it. It flowers in May or June. 

 Introduced about 1830. (B. M., t. 2819.) 



Z. stapelioides {Lindl.). — A tufted, compact little plant, with 

 dusky-coloured flowers. The pseudo-bulbs are ovate, four-angled, 

 less than lin. long, bearing one or two lanceolate, glaucous green, 

 striated leaves 3in. to 4in. long, and herbaceous in texture. The 

 scape springs from the base of the matured pseudo-bulb, and is 

 decumbent, i^in. long, and usually one-flowered ; each flower is 

 i^in. across; the sepals and petals are ovate, spreading, greenish- 

 yellow, with transverse, purple-brown bands, as in Stapelia bufonia 

 (whence the specific name). The three-lobed lip is black-purple 

 on the ovate central lobe, paler towards the margin, and streaked 

 the same as the petals ; the two horn-like side-lobes are also 

 coloured like the petals, and the column is citron-yellow. Organ 

 Mountains of Brazil, 1830. Syn. Frotnencea stapelioides. (B. M., 

 t- 3877-) 



Z. Wendlandii [Rchb. f.). — An attractive plant, with large 

 flowers and bright green leaves, arranged in two fan-like rows, 

 about Sin. long, erect, lin. across, jointed, with a broad, 

 sheathing base and a pointed apex. The flowers are about 4in. 

 across ; sepals and petals nearly equal, oblong, acute, 2 in. long, 

 white ; lip 2in. long, nearly as wide, recurved towards the apex, 



