Plaik XL111. 



HOULLETIA BROCK LEHUBSTIANA. 



nOVLLETIA. (Ailolphe Drougiuart in Annates dcs Sciences Nalurelles, tot. 15. 

 net scries, p.37. Unticy h, JioL Itctj. 1841, misc. p. 47.; Periaothium patens, 

 senilis sub-liberis: ]»oUilis paulo raiooribus, unguiculatiB. LabcUuiu cum baei 

 columna- continuum, patens; hypochilio aagusto, baei oxcavatn quasi bilabiate, 

 apice ulriaquo in laciniam producto, lobulo nano interjecin; mctachilio nullo; 

 opichilioangulari dilalato cum hy|mchilm articulate. Columna crecta, arcuata. 

 clavata, semiteres, Inbollo pauI6 brcvior. Anthem bHocularis depressa. Pol- 

 linia -2, postice fissa, caudicula lineari-lanecolata' in glaudulam acutam elon- 

 gate, ncc infix! Ucrbre opiphyta?, itteudobiilbosa-, America- a*quim.*tiali*, 



Inliis solitariU plicatis. Scapi radicales, crccli, apice racemosi. Flores spc- 

 ciosi, luleo-fusci, bracleis parvis ncc spathaccis. 





II. lirocktihmsliuna ; foliis ini*£i]>edimculutis. ramno (w-Horo, si-palis oblongis 

 ]H*lalis<|ut* npico rotiindatte, hypochilii laciniU lineari~lanc(M>Iatis rotloxis, epi- 

 chilio ovaUMriangitlari subliastalO angulta laleralilms acnminalis. 



Maxillaria? Bnx'kk'luusliana. Hndky in Botanical ltegistcr> 1841, misc. no. 27. 



This singular plant has in many respects (he character of MaAillana. ami so much resemble* 

 M, U'urreana in habit, that 1 had intended la consider it one provisionally, until I could examine 

 with the ncce&sary care the whole of those genera which constitute a division of Vandftt, CO which I 

 (impose to assign the name of Ma\illarida\ For this reason the accompanying plate, which has 

 been engraved for some month*, bears a different name from that at the head of this page. 



Recently, however, a plant has (lowered in the Garden of Plant* at Paris, which, if not the 

 same species as this, must be very near it. and to which Mons. Adolphe IJrongniurt lias t^iven the 

 name of lloullctia, after Mon*, Iloullct. a zealous French Gardener, who found it on trees in the 

 Corcorado. I therefore at once adopt the genus, without waiting for further information. 



In some respect* no doubt it approaches Stanhopca. nlso n Mn\illaridous genus: but it has a 

 totally different habit, and the hypocliiliuin (lower half of the Up) is not concave, on the contrary it 

 is lint, with a funnel-shaped hollow ut it* base* lu genuine affinities however cannot be usefully 

 discussed till the whole subject of tin* supposed specie* of Maxillnria is brought under review. 



The iLowKus are full 3j inclie* in dinmrter. and spread out so as to form a somewhat concave 

 |h-rinnth richly spotted with brown upon a cinnamon-coloured ground* In texture ihcy are leathery 

 and firm. The sepals are oblong, rather obtuse ; the lateral bring very slightly united at the base, 

 and somewhat larger than that at the back* The petals are ruther shorter, much narrower, ohovatc, 

 and narrowed at the base into a claw. The lit consist* of a hypochilium or lower, and an opichilium 

 ipper half, with no intervening portion : it is continuous with the base of tin; column, and rather 



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