Tas. 5296. 
MAXILLARIA VENUSTA. 
Graceful Maaillaria. 
Nat. Ord. OncH1pE#.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium connivens, raro patens. Sepala lateralia cum basi 
producta column connata. Pefala subconformia. Labellum trilobum, cucul- 
latum, sessile, cum basi producta columne articulatum. Columna semiteres, ap- 
tera. Anthera subbilocularis. Pollinia 2, bipartibilia v. integra, caudicula brevi, 
glandula transversa.—Epiphyte (Americana) pseudobulbose, acaules vel caules- 
centes. Folia plicata v. coriacea. Pedunculi radicales axillares vel terminales, 
uni v. multifiori. Lindl. 
MAXILLARIA venusta; pseudobulbis oblongis, compressis levibus viridibus 
2-phyllis, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, brevi acuminatis subcoriaceis levibus 
inferne longe attenuatis, pedunculis radicalibus intense rubris vaginato-brac- 
teatis unifloris, folio brevioribus flore subnutante amplo, sepalis petalisque 
patentibus lanceolatis longe acuminatis albis, petalis lateralibus majoribus 
basi latioribus sublonge productis, labello perianthio multo breviore cum 
columna prolongata articulato trilobo, disco callo rotundato tomentoso, lo- 
bis subeequalibus, intermedio ovato obtuso luteo, lateralibus valde obtusis 
albis rubro-marginatis, subtus maculis duabus rotundatis rubris. 
Maxritaria venusta. “ Lindl. Reich. fil. Orchid. Schlimmiane” in Bonplandia, 
1854, p. 277. 
Maxituarta Anatomorum? Reich. fil. in Bot. Zeit. v.10. p. 935, et in Xenia 
Orchid. v. |. p. 188. t. 67. 
This charming plant was communicated for publication in the 
‘Botanical Magazine’ by Mr. Tucker, gardener to G. Reed, Esq., 
of Burnham, Somerset. Dr. Lindley has referred the specimen, 
and no doubt correctly, to his M/. venusta of the ‘ Orchidez 
Schlimmiane.’ Dr. Hooker and myself had considered it to be 
identical with, or only a more perfect specimen of, the M. Ana- 
tomorum of Reich. fil., first published in Bot. Zeit., and then in 
his ‘Xenia Orchidacea,’ with a figure; and I should still be dis- 
posed to believe it to be the same, but that Dr. Reichenbach has 
expressed a different opinion; for he says of MJ. Anatomorum, 
“ Affinis IZ. venusta, Fendl. Reichb. fil., sepalis angustioribus, la- 
belli angusti lobis lateralibus obtusatis supra discum non intran- 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1862. 
