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bedded with sphagnum and peat, the 
rafts being secured slantwise on pots 
and filled in with sphagnum-moss ; or, 
if a sufficiently moist position can be 
found, they may even be suspended. 
The hybrids of Zygopetalum all thrive 
best in pots. The plants need a copious 
supply of rain-water at the root when 
in growth and being evergreen they 
must never be dried off even in the rest- 
ing season. All of them should be shaded 
from direct sunlight during summer, 
and especially the maxil/are and rostra- 
turn sections which require the warmest 
and shadiest part of the Cattleya or 
intermediate house in which all Zygo- 
petalums are grown. Species : — 
Z.brachypetalum. — Habit of Z. Mackayihnt 
slighter. Flower-spike often 1 8 inches high. 
Flowers 2^ inches across, sepals and petals 
green barred with red-brown, lip white tinged 
with mauve and blue veins. Brazil. 
Z. Burkei. — Scape erect, 1 8 inches or more 
high, and bearing several flowers between 2 
and 3 inches across. Sepals and petals green, 
veined andspotted with purple ; lip white with 
purple lines on the crest. Roraima, British 
Guiana. 
Z. crinitum. — Comes near Z. Mackayihwt is 
easily known by its shorter spikeswhich begin 
to flower nearer the pseudo-bulb, and by its 
aromatic fragrance like Aniseed, that oiMackayi 
being sweet as a garden Hyacinth. Flowers 
3 inches across ; sepals and petals green, barred 
with purple-brown ; lip white, bearing a vein- 
ing of fringed hairs varying in colour from 
violet to rose. Forms of this have been named 
splendens^ ccerukum, etc. Brazil. 
Z. graminifolium. — Pseudo - bulbs small, 
leaves long and narrow. Scape sometimes 2 
feet in height. Flowers 2 inches across and 
rather like those of Z. maxillare. Sepals and 
petals green heavily marked with chocolate- 
purple ; lip blue with white markings. Brazil. 
Z. grandijiorum. — A very distinct species 
with angular pseudo-bulbs 3 inches long, bear- 
ing broad leaves a foot or so in length. Flower- 
stem short, mostly three or four-flowered ; 
flowers 3 inches across. Sepals and petals yel- 
lowish-green with longitudinal reddish-brown 
lines ; lip white, with several raised purple 
lines. Crest yellow with red markings and 
projecting teeth in front. Columbia. 
Z. intermedium. — A form betweenZ, Mackayi 
and Z. crinitum — itself sometimes figured as 
Z. intermedium. It comes near Z. Mackayi and 
has the same odour of Hyacinths. Sepals and 
petals tinged green and barred with chocolate- 
purple. Lip white, with radiating spotted 
lines of purple. Brazil. 
Z. Jorisianum. — A distinct species differing 
from others in the form of the lip. Pseudo- 
bulbs 3, and leaves about 9 inches long. 
Scape erect, flowers 2\ inches across. Sepals 
and petals green heavily marked with choco- 
late-purple ; lip three-lobed, fringed, creamy- 
white tinged with yellow on the side lobes ; 
crest purple. Venezuela. 
Z. Lindenia. — Allied to Z.rostratum and with 
similar rather small pseudo-bulbs borne on 
rhizomes, and short flower-stems with two to 
four flowers of 4 inches across. Sepals and 
petals white tinged with rose-pink ; lip large, 
pointed, white with rose lines. Tropical 
America. 
Z. Mackayi. — The first and still the finest of 
the genus, esteemed in gardens for its strong 
growth and tall bloom-spikes. Flowers 3 inches 
across, large, fragrant, and lasting. Sepals and 
petals green, barred and blotched with pur- 
plish-brown ; lip broad, white, streaked and 
spotted with violet. Brazil. 
Z. maxillare. — Pseudo-bulbs distant on rhi- 
zomes. Stems a foot or more with flowers 2^ 
inches across. Sepals and petals green blotched 
with chocolate-brown ; lip violet-blue, lighter 
at the margin ; crest fleshy and violet. Brazil. 
Variety Gautieri (Z. Gautieri) is a good form 
with finely coloured flowers ; and variety&r;^(3'm' 
a slender form, with rounder pseudo-bulbs and 
having the lip of the flower a bright indigo- 
blue. 
Z. Murrayanum. — One of the smallest of 
the genus as regards flower. Habit compact; 
erect stems of about a foot, with flowers about 
an inch across. Sepals and petals green ; lip 
white with a few purple markings. Brazil. 
Z. rostratum. — The representative of a dis- 
