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white  lipped  with  green,  lip  white,  clawed  with  a  purple  ruff,  the 
•base  of  the  lip  rayed  with  purple,  the  column  yellow  with  a  red  base. 
There  are  several  varieties  of  Z.  Dayanum,  the  two  best  being 
Z.  Dayanum  candidulum,  a  fine  white  variety  with  a  tinge  of  purple 
lip  is  three-lobed,  the  crest  is  sulphur  yellow  with  purplish  brown 
ridges,  column  yellow  shaded  with  purple.  This  is  a  very  fine  species 
introduced  by  F.  Klaboch  from  Ecuador,  in  1879.  Z.  lamellosum, 
sepals  and  petals  straw-coloured,  lip  white  shaded  by  yellow,  crest 
Fig.  76.— ZYGOPETALUM  (PESCATOKEA)  CERINUM. 
in  the  lip ;  and  Z.  Dayanum  splendens,  a  dark  violet  coloured  variety. 
Z.  fimbriatum  is  an  attractive  species,  the  sepals  and  petals  white  with 
purple  tips,  lip  creamy  white  spotted  with  purple  and  with  a  fringed 
margin  ;  the  semicircular  crest  has  dark  purple  ridges.  Z.  Klabochorum 
has  white  sepals  and  petals,  tipped  with  dull  purple  ;  the  pale  yellow 
yellow  with  chocolate  ridges.  Introduced  from  Columbia  in  1875. 
Z.  Lehmauni  is  a  large-flowered  showy  species  from  Ecuador;  the 
sepals  and  petals  are  white  veined  with  purple,  the  lip  is  deep  purple 
covered  withjbristliug  papillae,  the  crest  has  several  brown  ridges.-- 
Obchidist. 
