338 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Maxillaria—continued. Maxillaria—continued. 
orchids. Over 100 have been enumerated as species, but 
some of these are merely garden forms; they are natives 
of tropical America, extending from Brazil as far as the 
West Indies and Mexico. Flowers more or less ringent; 
lateral sepals adhering to the column at their oblique 
base; lip hooded, jointed with the prolonged claw -like 
foot of the column, which is narrow, ascending; pollen 
masses four; scapes or peduncles at base of pseudo- 
bulbs, or in the axils of the leaves, solitary, always one- 
flowered. Leaves coriaceous, slender, or rather fleshy. 
A large number of species and varieties are described, 
but, as the majority of them produce small flowers, the 
whole genus has fallen out of favour with most orchid- 
growers. There are, however, some which should find a 
place in every collection, however limited the space. 
From a cultural point of view, few plants of this order 
are easier to grow than those now under consideration. 
Maxillarias thrive best when treated as pot plants, and 
should be potted in a compost of good fibrous peat and 
chopped sphagnum, in about equal parts. During the 
growing season, a temperature of 60deg. to 70deg., and 
an abundant supply of water, are essential to their 
well-being; in the winter, less water must be given, 
and the temperature should fall some 10deg. or 12deg. 
lower than during the period of growth. It is not, 
however, advisable to thoroughly dry off during 
winter. Propagated by divisions of the pseudo-bulbs, 
in spring. 
M. 2 — (needle-leaved). fl dark blood or chocolate- 
coloured, ; sepals and petals oblique or sub-ovate-spathu- 
late; and decurrent h the white n; li 
0 petals paler l. setaceo- — la 85 
Pseudo-bulbs in Brazil. (B. M 3 
M. acutipetala 
— with Dee en oblong, hag vot oa Powe 
column, paler ee. March and April. yes t 
of the do-bulb, linear-oblong or almost e ang ee sas 
bulbs ly : — very desirable 
hid. M. 3966.) 
M. arachnites (cobwebby). ji. yellowish; acuminate ents 
bent and aa: 2 — — with purple, and with 
many short streaks lines. Columbia, 1880. 
M. aromatica (aromatic). A synonym of Lycaste aromatica. 
M. ciliata (ciliate). A synonym of Lycaste Barringtonie. _ 
M. cruenta (bloody). A synonym of Lycaste cruenta. 
M. cucullata (hood greenish-chocolate ; * oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, 8 petals similar, but smaller, — 
vent over the column ; lip jointed at the Dase of the column, 
recurved; scapes radical, about long. September. J. soli- 
tary, linear-oblong. Praca lbs gp e by jagged mem- 
branes. Tropical America. (B. M. 3945.) 
— (Deppe). re of Lycaste Deppei. 
M. fractifiexa (twist ; s and petals drawn out into 
twiste or more in length, the tails 
White; lip white and red. 1881, A 
grandiflora (large-flowered).* AH. snow-white, large; sepals 
from lin. to 2in. long, and from jin. to lin. broad, not uin 
tals smaller; lip three-lobed, streaked with yellow on the 
ral lobes, and blotched with crimson inside, central or 
intermediate portion lemon-yellow; scape one-fiowered, 4in, 
to din. high. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, with sharp edges, dark 
G. fl. ay high, and one-leaved. Paraguayan Andes and Peru. 
G. 529. PSEUDO-BULB, LEAF, AND FLOWER OF 
MAXILLARIA VENUSTA. 
M. Henchmanni (Henchmann's). A synonym of M. variabilis. 
M. irrorata (bedewed). white, bordered, blotched, and 
washed hale ge hones or! abou 2 Jin. Jong; lip ochre, with a a gel 
margin and two le spo neath ; peduncle cov 
broad sheaths, * —— 48, 1883. 
N. eee (n narrow-sepaled). large, Lia ad 
(ar spreading, bu” long ; C similar, 
N N oblong obovate, three-lobed, with a swelling at the 
two or three from the base of the pseudo- 
“bulbs. ‘uly. all solitary, nearly lft. long. Pseudo-bulbs_clus- 
Eee ob a ne 
„ lft. New Grenada, 1846. (B. M. 
M. luteo-alba (yellowish-white my-white, large, pro- 
ceeding from aris sides of the OE a ifferent times of e 
year. J. long and broad, rier: 1Aft. 1 Merida. A neat- 
growing species. (W. O. A. 
M. 
ip 
t — ait tho length of the leaves. Winter an 
. garden plant, forming a compact mass, 
flowering very freely. (F. M. 559.) 
