1871 
+ MAXILLARIA aromática. 
Aromatic Maxillaria. 
M rr 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ÖRCHIDACER, $ VANDEA. 
MA XILLARIA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 897. 
M. aromatica ; pseudobulbis ovatis compressis, foliis pluribus oblongo-lanceo- 
latis plicatis scapis unifloris erectis longioribus, sepalis ovato-oblongis 
petalisque conformibus acutis, labelli semicylindracei laciniis lateralibus por- 
rectis subulatis; intermedia bilabiatà! labio superiore truncato nano infe- 
riore spathulato apice recurvo serrulato. Gen. $ Sp. Orch. pl. p. 146. 
M. aromatica. Graham in Hooker's Exot. fl. 219. 
Colax aromaticus. Spreng. cur. post. 307. 
A fragrant stove plant, breathing cinnamon and sweet 
spices, found in Mexico, whence it wassent by Lord Napier to 
the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, previous to the year 1826. 
The species is now not uncommon in good collections, 
flowering abundantly in the month of May. 
The callosity of the disk of the lip of Orchideous plants, 
which sometimes appears in the form of lamella, following the 
course of the veins, and sometimes is a thick tubercle, in the 
present species is a truncated plate, occupying the base of the 
middle segment of the lip, and looking like the half of a 
petal laid over the truelip. What is the real nature of this 
truncated plate ? 
* See folio 1428. 
