APPENDIX 1501 
l. L. Harrisii Fawcett and Rendle. Stems 3-4.5 em. tall, simple, several usually 
together. Leaf- os E iguous, funnelform, oblique, brown-hirtellous on the 
ridges and on the mouth: leaf-bla de elli iptic 
ov 
ark erimson-purple: sepals about ? mm. 
long, the median one narrowly oval, 2 
lateral 15 united, Med E l-veined: ds 
elliptie, 0.5-0.7 long, rounded at the 
apex: lip cos m. is little over 1 
mm. long, 3-veined: column about 0.5 mm 
aes 
long: eapsule ellipsoid or aa 3-4 mm. long, 
6-ribbed.—On pos Big iia Swamp, 
Fla.—( W. I.)—Win 
Page 396, after Macradenia lutescens, insert: 
49a. MAXILLARIA R. & P. Epiphytic herbs with more or less clustered 
e branches, the pseudobulbs sometimes poorly developed, each bearing 
ne leaf eaves coriaceous, 2-ranked, erect. Scapes (peduncles) arising at the 
bc of the de d or in the axils of the leaves, solitary, with sheathing 
bracts, 1-flowered. Flowers large or medium. Sepals narrow, nearly equal, dis- 
mo 
Lip concave, erect at the apex of the column-foot, the claw very short, or want- 
ing, the lateral lobes shallow, erect, the terminal lobe ovate or elliptic-ovate, 
spreading. Column with a short foot, often slightly incurved, semiterete, no 
winged. Anther terminal. Pollinia 4, unappendaged. sule ovoid, ellipsoid, 
or obovoid, erect, ean — .—About 240 species, in cus ntal and insular 
tropical America.—Differs from Macradenia in havin pollinia, instead o 
the solitary nee ee at the base of the plant, and the slightly lobed us 
1. M. iei bait 2 hio cett and Rendle. Stem very short, the branches usually 
clustered o pse iios rs a ae elongate, flattened, each 
Leaves bas 
cept the one on the a ex of the psendobulb) 
d bad d, the outer ones seale-like 
ner one 1-3 dm. Du with blades cone ale 
eate a sheating at the thickened base, linear, 
ree at the apex: flowers few, clustered i in 
s or three’s, from the axils of each leaf, 
ne a very short: pedicels about as 
long as the peduncle, with one sheathing | 
braet: perianth mainly pale-yellow: Pin 
coriaceous, ton se NUR em. Els 
1-1.5 em. rd with a strong mide acute: 
o lon ith 6 ribs 
and dad s.—On mob) "Big Gore Swamp, Fla CES I., Mex., C. A., A.) 
—Spr.-sum. 
