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-Maxittaria Harrisonia. Mrs. Harrison’s 
MAXILiaria. 
ASRS HSS seiootok 
Class and Order. 
Gynanpria Monanpria. 
( Nat. Ord —Onrcuipez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Perianthium, patens, resupinatum. Labellum cum ro 
Cessu unguiformi columne articulatum, trilobum. Foliola 
lateralia exteriora basibus cum processu column connata. 
Pollinia 4, basibus connata, glandulosa (vel 2, pedicellata, 
pedicello basi glanduloso.) Herbe parasitica, bulbose, 
Americe meridionalis. Racemi (vel scapi uniflori), radi- 
cales. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Maxitrarra * Harrisonie ; foliis solitariis lanceolatis pli- 
catis, racemo bifloro, perianthio maximo cerino pa- 
tente, labelli venosi disco glanduloso-piloso, lobis 
recurvis crispis. Lindl. , 
AXILLARIA Harrisonia. Bot. Reg. t. 897. 
ENDRoBIuM Harrisoniew. Hook. Ex. FI. t. 120. 
Corax Harrisonie. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 3. p. 727. 
Descr. This beautiful plant, which I had the pleasure 
of naming in c ompliment to Mrs. Arnotp Harrison, of 
Aigburgh, has an oblong, attenuated bulb, clothed at the 
€ with a coarse reticulated sheath, and having at the 
extremity a lanceolate, somewhat waved. or ara 
cal, bearing two flowers and the rudiment ofa th ae 
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_ * Named by Ruiz and Pavyon from the resemblance of the Labellum to the 
J@W of an animal, 
