1797 
* MAXILLARIA crócea. 
Saffron-coloured Maxillaria. 
o 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHIDER, $ VANDER, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
MAXILLARIA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 897. 
$.2. Scapigere. Pedunculi radicales. Labellum anticum. Scapi uniflori. 
M. crocea ; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis foliatis, foliis oblongis undulatis 
obtusis emarginatis laté vaginantibus, scapis erectis unifloris laxé vaginatis 
foliis duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque angustě triangularibus apice elon- 
gatis abruptě acutis, labello obovato obtuso levissimé trilobo apice carnoso 
crispo supra medium unituberculato. 
We have received the drawing and following account of 
this plant from Mr. Booth. 
« We owe the introduction of this curious plant to Capt. 
Sutton, of his Majesty's Packet establishment at Falmouth, 
who imported it from Rio Janeiro in the spring of 1833, 
and presented it, with others, to Sir C. Lemon, Bart., M.P., in 
whose collection at Carclew, Cornwall, the subject of the 
present notice produced its flowers in August 1834. 
** Root fibrous.” Pseudo-bulbs small, oblong, compressed, 
nearly covered by the three sheathing, strap-shaped leaves, 
which are each thick and rigid, from four to SIX inches 
long, and an inch in width, a little twisted, with an oblique 
sharp point. The leaf on the bulb is similar to the others 
but much longer. All of them are of a deep green above, 
and a pale silvery green beneath. Scapes four inches high, 
one-flowered, round and slender, rising from the base of 
the leaves, and covered with three or four, thin, pale green, 
* See folio 1428. 
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