inner petals. Lip much eontracted at the base, applied 
to the column, three-lobed; two lateral lobes blunt, in-- 
curved, terminal one the largest, transversel — the 
whole is greenish-white, spotted and streaked with pur- 
e. Column purplish-white, tapering at the base. Above 
is a three-toothed projection, the middle tooth 
er. Anther suborbicular, bidentate, quite 
within, aye four cells for the reception 
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of the four orbicular, pale-yellow, pollen-masses, attached 
by their base to a gland which covers the central tooth on 
the top of the stigma. 
For this new and well-marked species of Maxittaria we 
are again indebted to the rich collection of Mrs. Annoxo 
Harrison, who received the bulbs from her brother in 
Brazil, and who cultivates it with the same degree of suc- 
cess, with which she does so many other species of the 
Orchideous family. : ar 
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