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MAXILLA RI A cruenta 



Bloodstained Maxillaria. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidaceje, § Vande^e. 

 MAXILLARIA. Botanical Register, vol. U.fol. 897. 



ruenta ; pseudobulbis compressis ragosis, folns plunbus oblongis mem* 

 branaceis, pedimculis radicalibus unifloris (rar5 bifloris), vaginis dis- 

 tantibus obtusis cucullatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis lateralibus basi parum 

 productis, petalis minoribus conformibus, labello sepalis duplo breviore 

 concavo trilobo laciniis rotundatis intermedia crispa pubescente : tuber- 

 culo parvo piano, columna pubescente. 

 kinneri, hortorum nee Batemanni. 



It has been already stated (p. 11) that the plant current 

 in our gardens under the title of M. Skinneri is not the 

 species to which Mr. Bateman intended to apply that name, 

 but one more nearly allied to M. aromatica. The accom- 

 panying figure represents the latter. 



It was found by Mr. Skinner in Guatemala, and sent to 

 his friends as a large variety of M. aromatica, to which it cer- 

 tainly bears much resemblance. The following circumstances 

 however will readily distinguish it. The leaves are broader ; 

 the flowers are four times as large when in health j the lip 

 has quite a different form, with a deep crimson blotch at its 

 base, and is not half the length of the sepals ; the middle lobe 

 is rounded not unguiculate, and only a small tubercle in the 

 middle instead of the large concave appendage that occurs in 

 M. aromatica. No doubt then can be entertained of the 

 specific difference between these plants, which may be stated 

 as follows for M. aromatica. 



M. aromatica 



Colax aromaticus 



Gen. & Sp. Orch. no. 20 



Reg 



pluribus oblongo-lanceolatis membranaceis, pedunculis 



distantibus obtusis cucullatis; sepalis ovato- 



March, 1842. 



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