MAXILLARIA 121 



t. 1028 (1826) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1651. Dicrypta Baueri Lindl. 

 Gen. & Sp. Orch. 44 & 152 (1830 & 1832); Bauer & Lindl. Ill 

 Orck, Gen. t. 5. (PI. 25, f. 7-12.) Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



On rocks and trees ; in fl. Aug.-March ; Swartz ! McNab ! Petersfield, 

 St. Mary, Purdiel Springfield, Wullschlaegel, 1087a! Wag Water R., 

 J.P. 2 & 2399, Morris ! & Syme ! Trelawney, Miss T. M. Barrett ! Belvedere, 

 Hanover, 500 ft. ; Newcastle Road, 1500 ft. ; Tweedside, south St. Andrew, 

 2500 ft. ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7681, 7841, 9006. Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, 

 Venezuela, Brazil. 



Plant 10-14 in. high. Stem very short, almost obsolete, buds springing 

 from base of old plant. Pseudobulbs oblong, much compressed, with one 

 leaf at apex, 2*5 cm. L, l - 5 cm. br. Leaves radical (except one at apex of 

 pseudobulb), in two ranks, 3-edged, complicate below, sheathing and much 

 thickened at base, jointed above the sheath, the outer lower leaves with 

 very shortly developed blade ; blade of inner leaves ligulate, oblique at apex 

 and with a very short curved apiculus, keeled, 18-29 cm. 1., 17-26 mm. br. 

 Peduncles 8 or 9 mm. L, several, two or three in a cluster from the axil of 

 each leaf and enclosed by its sheath, each cluster enclosed by three or four 

 scarious bracts, about 1*5 cm. 1. ; each peduncle with three sheathing 

 bracts from base ; pedicel as long as peduncle, solitary, 1-flowered, with 

 one sheathing bract. Sepals leathery, oblong, tapering to a thickened and 

 slightly hooded apex; lateral 1*5 cm. 1., 5 mm. br. ; median concave, 

 1*4 cm. 1., 5 mm. br. Petals somewhat fleshy, oblanceolate, somewhat 

 acute, 1*25 cm. 1., about 3 mm. br. Lip 1*2 cm. L, 4- 5 mm. br. Column 

 8 mm. 1. Capsule ellipsoidal with six broad keels and furrows, 2- 3 cm. 1. 



49. NEO-URBANIA Fawc. t Rendle. 



Herb, on trees or procumbent on shady stony banks, with 

 long leafy branching stems, the lower internodes rooting. 

 Leaves alternate, narrow, w T ith persistent tightly adpressed 

 sheathing stalks. Flowers stalked, rather small, few, clustered 

 in the axils of the leaves. Sepals nearly equal in length and 

 breadth, connivent, median free, lateral adnate to the foot of 

 the column, forming a chin under the lip. Petals similar to the 

 sepals. Lip 3-lobed, jointed to the foot of the column, and 

 incumbent on it, the lateral lobes above the base curved in 

 towards the column, the blade oval, recurved-spreading. Column 

 very short, erect, not winged, produced at the base into a long 

 foot ; clinandrium slightly concave, entire, the median line 

 raised, and ending in the slightly pointed rostellum ; anther 

 terminal, opercular, incumbent, hooded, 2-celled ; pollinia 4, 

 waxy, pyriform, equal, compressed laterally, collateral in pairs 

 in the cells, not appendiculate, free. Capsule long, oblong, 

 shortly beaked. 



Differs from Ponera in its free simple pollinia and axillary 

 flowers ; from Pleuranthium in the lip, which is free from and 

 attached to the foot of the column, and in the pollinia ; from 

 Camaridium in habit, in character of the pollinia (absence of 

 gland and stipes), and in the connivent perianth. 



