Tas. 4374. 
MAXILLARIA acicuuaris. 
Needle-leaved Mazillaria. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE@.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4228.) 
MAXILLARIA acicularis; subcaulescens, pseudo-bulbis subfusiformibus sulcatis 
diphyllis basi squamosis, foliis linearibus acuminatis canaliculatis dorso 
convexis, pedunculis arctissime squamosis axillaribus unifloris, perianthio 
connivente, sepalis petalisque ovatis acutis, petalis obtusioribus, labello 
indiviso oblongo obtuso disco illinito, callo lineari apice rotundato integro. 
Lindl. 
MAXILLARIA acieularis. Herbert MS. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1837, sub t. 1986. 
This delineation was taken some years ago from flowering spe- 
cimens at Woburn. The species is a native of Brazil, and was 
first known to Dr. Lindley, through a drawing made by the late 
Hon. and Rev. William Herbert. It is not an attractive plant, 
to those who only look to size of flower or gaudy colouring as of 
value in the vegetable creation. It is a distinct and well-marked 
species, its affinity even being dubious, except, as Dr. Lindley 
observes, it be with IZ. uncata. : 
Descr. A small plant, consisting of clusters of oblong or sub- 
fusiform pseudo-bulbs, deeply sulcated, springing from a short 
ramified stem or caudex, partially clothed with brown membra- 
naceous scales below, above bearing two setaceo-fusiform /eaves, 
three to four inches long, dark green, grooved on the upper side, 
Semi-terete on the under. Peduncle short, from the base or axil of 
a pseudo-bulb, and densely clothed with oblong, membranaceous, 
brown scales, solitary, single-flowered. Hower erect, dark blood 
or chocolate-coloured. Perianth erect (so that the flower is 
almost closed). Sepals and petals oblique or subovato-spathulate, 
obtuse : petals the same, but paler coloured, and decurrent with 
the white elongated column. Lip rather longer than the rest of 
the perianth, oblong, obscurely three-lobed, somewhat spurred 
MAY Ist, 1848. 
