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Warrea (Named by Lindley in honour)

(named by Lindley in honour of its discoverer, Frederick Warre, who sent plants to the Loddiges, by whom it was figured under the name of Maxillaria Warreana). ORD. Orchideae. A small genus (according to Bentham and Hooker, one or two species) of stove, terrestrial Orchids, natives of Brazil, Peru, Columbia, &c. Flowers showy, shortly pedicellate; sepals and petals broad, concave, the lateral ones oblique at base, adnate to the foot of the rather long, clavate column; lip affixed to the foot of the column, sessile, very shortly contracted towards the base and incumbent, at length erect, broad, and concave, the lateral lobes scarcely prominent, the middle one expanded, entire or bifid, the disk having elevated, fleshy lines; pollen masses four; racemes elongated, loose; scapes leafless, many-sheathed, tall, simple; bracts short. Leaves few, distichous, elongated. Stem leafy. W. tricolor and its variety require similar treatment to that recommended for Phaius. Several species formerly included here will now be found under Zygopetalum.

W. tricolor (three-coloured).* fl. rather large, globose, drooping; sepals and petals yellowish-white, the two lateral sepals below ending in a blunt spur; lip yellow and deep purple, white at the edge, obovate, cucullate at base, the disk having three ridges; scapes lateral, purple at the joints, about 2ft. high, bearing an eight to ten-flowered raceme. June and July. l. long-petiolate, lanceolate, plicate. Pseudo-bulbs oblong, terete attenuated, jointed. Brazil, 1843. (R. X. O. 24.) SYN. Maxillaria Warreana (B. M. 4235; L. B. C. 1884).

W. t. stapelioides (Stapelia-like). fl., sepals and petals barred with brown internally; lip with a broad, purplish-brown stripe in front. New Grenada, 1872.