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MAXILLARIA cucullata. 



Hooded Maxillaria. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Orchidace^, § Vande.e. 

 MAXILLARIA. Botanical Register, vol, il.fol. 897. 



§ 2. ScAPiGER^; scapis radicalihus imb7'icat)msquamatis unijloris. 



M. cucullata; pseudobulbis ovalibus compressis monophyllis, folio lato scapis 

 longiore, vaginis ini])ricatis inflatis, bractea cucullata ovario longiore, 

 sepalis ovatis acuminatis erectis, petalis conformibus paulo minoribus, 

 labello oblongo carnoso trilobo petalorum longitudine : lobis lateralibus 

 nanis intermedio elongato obtuso apice incrassato apiculato, callo disci 

 spathulato loborum lateralium longitudine. 



A native of equinoctial America, whence it is said to 

 have been brought by Mr. Henchman. For my specimens I 

 am indebted to His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, who 

 ordered them to be sent fromChatsworth in September, 1838. 

 The species is one of the less interesting of the genus, and 

 in its habit and general appearance approaches the Trigo- 

 nidia. It belongs to a rather large section of true Maxil- 

 larias, characterized by their peduncles being constantly 

 one-flowered, densely clothed with scale-like sheaths, and 

 proceeding immediately from the base of the pseudo-bulbs 

 which lie upon the earth. 



Of this section several have been defined in the Genera 

 and Species of Orchidaceous Plants* and others have ap. 

 peared in Poppig and Endlicher's Nova Genera et Species 

 Plantarum,so that among my collections of unpublished plants 

 belonging to the Vandeous section of Orchidaceae I find only 

 one to add. That one is a native of Mexico, where it was 

 first found by Count Karwinski, at Teoxomulco, near Oaxaca. 



* I am bappy to state that a sixth part of this work, comprehending 

 Arethusece, Gastrodiece, and Vanillece, is in the printer's hands, and may be 

 expected in about a month. 



