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MAXILLA RIA cruenta. 



Blood-stained Maxi llaria . 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 

 Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Vande.*. 

 MAXILLARIA. Botanical Register, vof. II. fol. 897. 



M. cruenta ; pscudobulbis compressis rugosis, foliis pluribus oblongis mem- 

 branaceis, pedunculis radicalibus unifloris (raro bifloris), vaginis dis- 

 tantibus obtusis cucullatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis lateralibus basi pariim 

 pvoductis, petalis niinoribas conforraibus, labollo sepalis diiplo breviorc 

 concavo trilobo laciuiis rotundatis intermedia crispa pubescente : tidiev- 

 culo parvo piano, columna pubescente. 



M. Skinneri, hortorum nee Batemanni. 



It has been already stated (p. 11) that the plant current 

 in our gardens under the title of M. Skinneri is not the 

 species to which Mr. Bateman intended to apply that name, 

 but one more nearly allied to M. aromatica. The accom- 

 panying- figure represents the latter. 



It was found by Mr. Skinner in Guatemala, and sent to 

 his friends as a large variety of M. aromatica, to which it cer- 

 tainly bears much resemblance. The following circumstances 

 however will readily distinguish it. The leaves are broader ; 

 the flowers are four times as large when in health ; the lip 

 has quite a difl^erent form, with a deep crimson blotch at its 

 base, and is not half the length of the sepals ; the middle lobe 

 is rounded not unguiculate, and only a small tubercle in the 

 middle instead of the large concave appendage that occurs in 

 M. aromatica. No doubt then can be entertained of the 

 specific difference between these plants, which may be stated 

 as follows for M. aromatica. 



M. aromatica (Hooker Ex. Flo. t. 219. Gen. & Sp. Orch. no. 20. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1871. Cohfx aroinaticus, Spreng ) ; pseudobulbis compressis rugosis, 

 foliis pluribus oblongo-lanceolatis membranaceis, pedunculis radicalibus 

 unifloris erectis, vaginis distantibus obtusis cucullatis; sepalis ovato- 



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