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* MAXILLA Rl A crocea. 



Saffron-coloured Maxillaria. 



GYNANDRIA MO'SA^DRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide/E, § Vande;e, Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p. 262 J 



MAXILLARIA.—Suprd, vol. W.fol. 897. 



§. 2. Scapigerce. Pedunciili radicales. Labellum anticum. Scapi uniflori. 



M. crocea ; pscudobulbis oblongis compressis foliatis, folils oblongis uiululatis 

 obtusis emarginatis late vaginantibus, scapis erectis unifloris laxe vaginalis 

 foliis duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque anguste triangularibus apicc elon- 

 gatis abrupte acutis, labello obovato obtuso levissim^ trilobo apice carnoso 

 crispo supra medium unituberculato. 



We have received the drawing and following account of 

 this plant from Mr. Booth. 



*' We owe the introduction of this curious plant to Capt. 

 Sutton, of his Majesty's Packet establishment at Falmouth, 

 who imported it from Rio Janeiro in the spring of 1833, 

 and presented it, with others, to Sir C. Lemon, Bart., M.P., in 

 whose collection at Carclew, Cornwall, the subject of the 

 present notice produced its flowers in August 1834. 



'* Root fibrous. Pseudo-hulhs small, oblong, comprcsscr^ 

 nearly covered by the three sheathing, strap-shaped leaves^ 

 which are each thick and rigid, from four to six inches 

 long, and an inch in width, a little twisted, with an oblique 

 sharp point. The leaf on the bulb is similar to the others 

 but much longer. All of them are of a deep green above, 

 and a pale silvery green beneath. Scapes four inches high, 

 one-flowered, round and slender, rising from the base of 

 the leaves, and covered with three or four, thia, pale green, 



* See folio 1428. 

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