Maxillaria 



Prcestans (foremost). Yellow, with brown spots. 

 April. Guatemala. 1884. 



Sanderiana. A species which made prodigious 

 sensation when first beheld in 1884. It has the 

 merit of size and eccentricity, even of impressive- 

 ness, but I can see no beauty. The world in 

 general, however, still regards this as the finest of 

 the Maxillarias. It is white, rather smudged than 

 blotched at the base with deep maroon, and spotted 

 therewith. Generally grown in a basket, because 

 the flower-stalk is rather short and the foliage 

 heavy ; thus it shows best from below. Not less 

 than 50 in winter. May. Peru. 1884. 10s. Qd. 



Splendens. White ; lip orange, margined with 

 rose. Peru. 



Tenuifolia (thin-leaved). I should repeat my 

 remarks about M. picta with even more emphasis. 

 The single virtue of this species is antiquity. 

 Small yellow flowers dotted with crimson. Spring. 

 Mexico. 1839. 3s. 6d. 



Turneri. Kather small. Brown and crimson. 

 Scented. Spring. Mexico. 



Venusta (beautiful). Very pleasing. Large ; 

 white ; the front lobe of the lip yellow, and two 

 crimson spots on the disc ; side lobes margined 

 with crimson. Flowers irregularly. New Granada. 

 Venezuela, etc. 1862. 5s. 



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