strap-shaped, curving leaf up to about a foot in length. The radical scapes are 
about 6 inches high and carry a single, fragrant, milk-white flower, whose ovate, 
spreading sepals are about half as long again as the petals. The three-lobed lip 
has its front lobe pouched and is yellow in colour, the lateral lobes being tinged 
with red along the edges. Flowers in late Autumn and early Winter and lasts about 
five weeks, 
MAXILLARIA LUTEO-ALBA. Native of Colombia. 
A robust growing, free flowering species with ovate, compressed pseudobulbs 
about 24 inches long and having one leaf. Leaves broad and blunted, up to 18 
inches long, dark green in colour, the base tapering into a stalk. Scapes radical, 
sheathed with bracts, and about 6 inches long. They carry a single flower about 
6 inches wide. Sepals about 3 inches long, brown underneath, creamy-white at 
the base on the inside, the rest being tawny-yellow. The upper sepal is erect, the 
two lower ones drooping. The petals are erect and slope outwards. They are 
about half the length of the sepals, and are white at the base, then brown and 
tipped with yellow. The middle lobe of the lip is recurved and covered with 
fine hairs, and is yellow with a white margin. The side lobes are yellow, striped 
with purple. Flowers Winter and Spring, lasting a month in perfection. 
MAXILLARIA NIGRESCENS. Native of Colombia. 
A species with strikingly coloured flowers. Pseudobulbs oval, greenish-black and 
flattened. Leaves single, strap-shaped, pointed at apex, from 12 to 16 inches long 
and 14 inches wide. Flower scapes, about 4 inches long, grow from the bases 
of the pseudobulbs and carry a solitary flower about 2 inches across. In form the 
flowers resemble those of M. grandiflora, but are the colour of port-wine, with a 
flush of dull purple on the upper portion of the segments. Flowers in Winter 
and lasts well. 
MAXILLARIA PICTA. Native of Brazil. 
A very free flowering species with typical pseudobulbs, bearing one (occasionally 
two) strap-shaped, pointed leaves up to a foot in length. Flowers produced singly 
on basal scapes, a number of which appear at the same time from each pseudo- 
bulb. They are about 2 inches across. Sepals and petals creamy-yellow on the 
outside, and deep orange on the inside, streaked and spotted with purple or dark 
brown. Petals curl inwards. Lip white, spotted purple, the column being entirely 
purple. Flawers in the Winter time and lasts well. Likes rather warmer treatment 
than the other species. 
MAXILLARIA SANDERIANA. Native of Peru. 
This species is probably the best of all the Maxillarias. Its ovate, compressed 
pseudobulbs are surmounted by one (occasionally two) oblong, pointed, bright 
green leaves about 9 inches long. The flower scape is drooping and bears a single 
flower about 5 inches in width. The ovate sepals are about 2 inches broad, and 
are spreading, the upper one being concave. The petals are two-thirds the length 
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