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MAXILLARIA* viridis. 

 Green Maocillaria. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDEIA. 



Nat. ord. Ouchidex Juss. Sect. Vandeae Lindl. {Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



MAXILLARIA.—Suprd, vol. U.fol. 897. 



M. viridis ; pseudo-bulbis nullis, foliis lanceolatis undalatis plicatis, floribus 



solitariis radicalibus globosis, sepalis petalisque subrotundis obtusis, la- 



bello brevi : lobo medio transverse rhomboideo unguiculato medio refracto. 



Flos radicalis, solitarius, globosus. Sepala subrotunda, ovata, obtusa, 



viridia, immaculata. Petala minora, conformia, purpureo intus confertissime 



punctata. Labellum cum basi parum productd columnce elastice articulatum , 



unguiculatum, trilobum, medio refractum, lilacinum, lobis lateralibus mi- 



noribus erectis, intermedio transverse rhomboideo piano. Columna libera, 



semiteres, basi producta. Stigma subrotundum, excavatum. Anthera car- 



nosa, bilocularis ; loculorum valvulis transverse* dehiscentibus. Pollinia 4, 



albida, geminata, caudiculd sulcata 1 , fused !, utrinque alatd, dorso purpu- 



rascente, viscido, prominulo. 



A native of Rio Janeiro, whence it was sent by the late 

 Sir Henry Chamberlain. Our drawing was made in the 

 stove of the Horticultural Society's Garden in May 1831. 



It is rather a weak-growing plant, requiring shade, 

 much moisture to its leaves, and little to its roots, together 

 with a high temperature and decayed vegetable mould. 

 It seems to have no tendency to form those pseudo-bulbs 

 which are generally so characteristic of the genus. 



J. L. 



* Some of the species have flowers the segments of which gape like the 

 open jaws, maxilla', of some grinning animal. 



