can be a Maxillaria; namely, a labellum attached to the 
column by a moveable joint, or, as we technically say, articu- 
lated with the column. This is found in every true Maxil- 
laria, and therefore I have no hesitation in separating from 
it a Demerara plant which flowered lately with Mr. Barker 
at Birmingham, in which this character is wanting. It 
may be called Stenia in allusion to the singular narrowness 
of the pollen masses. 
STENIA. 
Perianthium explanatum, subaquale, sepalis lateralibus basi obliquis. 
Labellum cum basi columne continuum, (indivisum), concavum, disco appendi- 
culatum. Columna semiteres, basi producta, apice rotundata, mutica. Anthera 
bilocularis. Pollinia 4, linearia, geminata, basi sejuncta, dorsalia minima. 
Caudicula subquadrata acuta (pubescens). — —Herba acaulis, ebulbis. | Folia 
oblonga, basi angustata, apice recurva. Flores solitarii, radicales, basi ovarii 
bracteolati. 
1. Stenia pallida. Bot. reg. ic. ined. 
There is moreover an unpublished genus, called Huntleya 
by Mr. Bateman, in compliment to the Rev. J. T. Huntley, 
an ardent cultivator of Orchidaceous plants (see fol. 1721 of 
this work), of which the original species was found, accord- 
ing to a memorandum I have received from Mr. Bateman, 
in Demerara by Mr. Schomburgk, and of which another 
and very fine species occurs among Mons. Descourtilz's 
Brazilian drawings. These plants manifestly differ from 
Maxillaria in combining with the distichous habit of a 
Vanda, a flat, spreading labellum, which is unguiculaie with 
the free base of the column, and furnished with a fine fringed 
appendage at its base, and a column broadly winged towards 
the apex. This genus may be established upon the following 
character, which I take from the species of M. Descourtilz. 
HUNTLEVA. 
Perianthium explanatum, subzquale, sepalis lateralibus basi anticè involutis 
vix obliquis. Labellum planum, unguiculatum, rhomboideum, patens, basi 
longé fimbriatum, cum basi libera producta columnse articulatum. Columna 
clavata, apice cucullata, margine alata. Anthera bilocularis mutica. Pollinia 4. 
—— Herbe caulescentes. Folia ligulata, disticha. Flores axillares (solitarii). 
1. H. sessiliflora (Bateman ined.) ; “ floribus sessilibus." In Guiana Schom- 
burgk. : 
2. H. Meleagris; foribus longè pedunculatis. In Brasilia. Bremer 
fritillé Descourtilz ic. Orch. Bras. ined. t. 8.——Planta Vande 
omnino facie. Folia pedalia, flabellatim disticha. Pedunculi cum ovario 
5 pollices longi. Flores diametro 3-pollicari, medio candidi, ultra medium 
Fritillarise Meleagridis aspectu et colore vinoso. Labellum ovato-rhom- 
boideum, acutum. Columna apice virens. 
