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and having a fleshy excrescence on the disk ; darker in 

 colour than the sepals and petals, and marked in the centre 

 and on the lateral lobes with a dark purple spot. Column 

 snort and minutely pubescent on the back, in the upper part. 

 Stigruatic cavity angular, membranous and three-lobed, the 

 central lobe subulate. Clinandrium entire. Caudiculae 

 two, distinct. Gland transverse. Pollen-masses compressed, 

 sulcate. Anther-case one-celled, and minutely pubescent like 

 the column." 



" This species in habit, in the form of the pseudo-bulbs, 

 and in the foliage, is very similar to Max. tetragona, but the 

 flowers are altogether different, and bear resemblance to those 

 of Max. aureo-fulva, Hook., figured in the ' Floral Cabinet,' 

 ii. plate 83." L c. 



This plant appears to be identical with M. vitellina. With 

 respect to its supposed double caudiculse I must, however, 

 observe that they are no more than the elastic centre which 

 holds the pollen-masses of all Orchidaceous plants of the 

 Vandeous division to their common caudicula, and that they 

 are very different from those truly double caudiculse, properly 

 so called, which exist in Bifrenaria. 



142. MAXILLARIA purpurascens ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis vel conicis, sulcatis: 

 foliis duobus, lineari-lanceolatis, apiculatis : floribus solitariis, glabris ; 

 sepalis sequalibus, lanceolatis, apiculatis, supremo connivente, lateralibus 

 labello parallelis: petalis conniventibus, linearibus, sepalis brevioribus ; 

 labello trilobato, margine purpureo maculate-, glabro, disco carnoso ; 

 antbera subpubescente. Phytologist, p. 8. 



" Rhizoma growing along the top of the pot and sending 

 off pseudo-bulbs, which are ovate or conical and furrowed. 

 Leaves two, about four inches long, linear-lanceolate, and 

 pointed at the apex. Scape about six inches high, smooth, 

 tinged with purple and bearing a solitary flower at the apex. 

 Flower smooth, internally yellow, externally purple. Bracts 

 about half an inch long. Sepals about an inch long, apiculate 

 at the apex ; the lateral ones arranged parallel with the la- 

 bellum, the upper one connivent over the petals and column. 

 Petals much smaller and shorter than the sepals, and as long 

 again as the column. Labellum smooth, three-lobed, the 

 middle lobe recurved at the margin, the apex of the lateral 

 lobes beautifully spotted with purple. Column smooth. 

 Clinandrium smooth or slightly pubescent. Stigmatic cavity 



