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MAXILLARIA cucullata. 
Hooded Maxillaria. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. OncuipACEX, $ VANDEA. 
MAXILLARIA. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 897. 
$ 2. ScAPIGERA; scapis radicalibus imbricatim squamatis unifloris. 
M. cucullata; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis monophyllis, folio lato scapis 
longiore, vaginis imbricatis inflatis, bracteá cucullatá ovario longiore, 
sepalis ovatis acuminatis erectis, petalis conformibus pauló minoribus, 
labello oblongo carnoso trilobo petalorum longitudine: lobis lateralibus 
nauis intermedio elongato obtuso apice incrassato apiculato, callo disci 
spathulato loborum lateralium longitudine. 
A native of equinoctial America, whence it is said to 
have been brought by Mr. Henchman. For my specimens I 
am indebted to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who 
ordered them to be sent from Chatsworth in September, 1838. 
The species is one of the less interesting of the genus, and 
in its habit and general appearance approaches the Trigo- 
nidia. It belongs to a rather large section of true Maxil- 
larias, characterized by their peduncles being constantly 
one-flowered, densely clothed with scale-like sheaths, and 
proceeding immediately from the base of the pseudo-bulbs 
which lie upon the earth. 
Of this section several have been defined in the Genera 
and Species of Orchidaceous Plants,* and others have ap- 
peared in Póppig and Endlicher’s Nova Genera et Species 
Plantarum, so that among my collections of unpublished plants 
belonging to the Vandeous section of Orchidacez I find only 
one to add. That one is a native of Mexico, where it was 
first found by Count Karwinski, at Teoxomulco, near Oaxaca. 
* I am happy to state that a sixth part of this work, comprehending 
Arethusee, Gastrodiee, and Vanillee, is in the printer's hands, and may be 
expected in about a month. 
