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* MAXILLARIA Steélii. 
Mr. Steels Maxillaria. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ, $ VANDER. 
MAXILLARIA. Supra, vol. 11. fol. 897. 
M. Steelii ; caule pendulo nano ramoso squamato : ramulis monophyllis, foliis 
longissimis flagelliformibus canaliculatis, floribus solitariis axillaribus, sepalis 
petalisque oblongis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus erectis 
rotundatis: intermedii bilobi laciniis rotundatis subcuneatis divergentibus 
callo baseos elevato apice obtuse tridentato. 
M. Steelii. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 3573. 
Folia 3-4 pedes longa, apice subulata. Flores flavi, maculis atro-pur- 
purets irregularibus tigrini; labellum potiùs interrupt venosum quam macu- 
latum. Columna semiteres. Pollinia 4, in glandulam transversam utrinque 
arıstatam sessilia, per paria distincta glandule agglutinata. 
A native of Demerara, where it would seem to be common if we are 
to judge from the large quantity of it that has been introduced within 
these two last years. When it first came over I called it Mazillaria 
Pagellifera, in allusion to the thong-like leaves, and under that name it 
exists in many collections; but the name not je ving been published must, 
ofcourse, give way to that of M. Steelii, under which it was first described, 
in May last, by Sir W. Hooker. 
the pr esent op nity of noticing the following. 
M. Rollissonii ; a is, pseudabulbis subrotundis compressis subbifoliis, foliis 
| oblongo-lanceolatis acutis apice recurvis, seapis unifloris diffusis lax? vagi- 
— matis uniflods, sepalis carinatis lateralibus basi subsequalibus petalisque 
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