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* MAXILLARIA densa. 
Dense-flowered Maxillari... 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHiDE=, $ Vanpex, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
MAXILLARIA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 897. 
S. 1. Azillifiore. Pedunculi axillares. í = 
M. densa; pseudobulbis oblongis compressis axillaribus monophyllis, foliis 
oblongódaneccillli obtusis emarginatis, racemis axillaribus densissimé aggre- 
gatis, bracteis cucullatis, perianthiis bilabiatis, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis carinatis, petalis paulo minoribus, labello oblongo indiviso apice 
recurvo et canaliculato, medio lineá transversá elevatá. 
A native of Mexico, whence it was imported by the 
e um Loddiges, in whose stove it flowered in January 
ast. 
It belongs to that set of Maxillarias on which the genus 
was founded by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, and 
which in some respects appear to differ from those with 
which we are but acquainted in Gardens. The stems rise 
some height above the ground, and are regal invested with 
brown withered scales, from the axils of w ich spring the 
pseudo-bulbs and flowers; in most Maxillarias on the 
contrary, there seems to be no stem, but the pseudo-bulbs sit 
close upon the ground, as in M. picta and ochroleuca. Yn truth, 
however, there is a stem in both kinds; only it is erect and 
above ground in the one, and prostrate or unde round in 
the other. And soitis with all the pseudo-bulbous rchidew ; 
their true stem is in most cases a rhizoma, like that of Iris, 
rooting on the side that touches the ground, and pushing up 
leaves and pseudo-bulbs on the other. 
* See folio 1428. 
