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MAXILLARIA* decolor. 

 Pale Yellow Maxillaria. 



(IVNANDRIA monandria. 



Nat. ord. Orciiide/e. | Vandeae. (Introduction to the natural 

 it/stem of Botany, p. 262.) 



MAXILLARIA. —Supra, vol. U.fol. 897. 



§ ScapigeRjE. Eedunculi radicales ; lahellum posticum. Xylobium. — 



Gen. et sp. of Orch. ined. 



M. decolor; pseudo-bulbis oblongis compressis, foliis solitariis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis plicatis utrinque acuminatis, scapo radicali multifloro vaginato 

 foliis breviore, sepalis ovato-oblongis obtusis patentibus, petalis dupl6 

 minoribus conniventibus, labello postico obsolete trilobo obtuso cucullato : 

 callis 5 clavatis parallelis sequilongis ultra medium procurrentibus. 

 Folia diversce forma et magnitudinis, mine 8 poll, longa, 3 p. lata, nunc. 



1 8 p. longa, 2 p. lata. Scapus A-pollicaris. Flores ochroleuci, imrnaculati, 



M. squalentis magnitudine. 



A new and very distinct species, native of Jamaica, 

 whence it was imported by Mr. Lee, in whose Nursery at 

 Hammersmith it was drawn in January 1831. It is a 

 tender stove-plant, requiring the same treatment as other 

 species of the same family. In our Plate, a is a magnified 

 representation of the inside of the labellum. 



The genus Maxillaria, as originally constituted by the 

 authors of the Flora Peruviana, consisted of epiphytal 

 caulescent Orchideae, having the flowers proceeding singly, 

 or in small numbers, from the axillae of the leaves, as in 

 the genus Ornithidium, of which they have in many respects 

 the habit. Subsequently other species were added, having 

 a radical inflorescence, and pseudo- bulbs bearing one or two 

 coriaceous or plaited leaves. Of these, some have the 



* See fol. 1428. 



