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MAXILLARIA 



MAYTENUS 



acuminate: scape short, with 1 small fl.; sepals and 

 petals oblong obtuse, yellow-tinged and spotted with 

 reddish orange; side lobes of labellum small, sharp; 

 middle lobe elongate, sub-quadrate, emarginate; all yel- 

 low, spotted with crimson. Trinidad. B.R. 22:1848.- 

 Not valuable. 



8. elegintula, Rolfe. The bases of the segments are 

 white, the outer halves pale yellow, marked with choco- 

 late color. Nov. Ct.C. 111. 22:420. — From the illustration, 

 the sepals are ovate-lanceolate, wavy and recurved, the 

 lower pair broader; petals smaller, pointing forward, 

 concave, wavy, with reflexed tips: Ivs. lanceolate-acute. 



9. mteo-Uba, Lindl. Pseudobulbs long-ovate, 1-lvd., 

 2)4 in. high: Ivs. broad, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 1 ft. long: scapes 6 in. long: sepals 3 in. long, Ja in. 

 wide, tawny yellow fading to white at the base, brown 

 on theback, the lower pair drooping; petals erect, point- 

 ing forward, one-half as long, white to brown and yel- 

 low above ; side lobes of the labellum yellow with pur- 

 ple streaks; middle lobe recurved, hairy, yellow, with 

 white margins. Colombia. — A robust species, which 

 soon fills large-sized pans, making very ornamental 

 plants. 



10. BtTi&ta, Rolfe. Scapes C-8 in. long, bearing soli- 

 tary fls. 4-5 in. across the sepals: dorsal sepals ovate- 

 oblong; lateral sepals ovate-attenuate, forming a broad 

 mentum at the base, often twisted and recurved; petals 

 narrower, wavy; both sepals and petals are yellow, 

 striped with red-brown ; lobes of the labellum crenate- 

 wavy, white with purple veins, the lateral ones re- 

 curved. Aug. Peru. G.C. III. 20:631. G.M. 41:705. 





1380. Maxillaria Houtteana (X .ibout %). 



11. Houtteana, Reichb. f. Fig. 1380. Rhizome erect 

 or ascending, clothed with brown sheaths: pseudobulbs 

 2-2J4in. long, linear-oblong, compressed: Ivs. solitary, 

 C in. long, linear, obtuse, keeled: scape lJ.i-2 in. long: 



fls. nearly 2 in. across; sepals ovate-lanceolate, dirty 

 yellow outside, red-purple within, with a yellow margin 

 and spotted below; petals smaller, colored like the se- 

 pals; labellum without lateral lobes, oblong-obtuse, 

 yellow with red-brown spots, and an ill-deflned callus 

 on the base. April. Guatemala and Venezuela. B.M. 

 7533. — Fls. last about a month in the coolhouse. 



12. variibiliB, Batem. (J/. «Hf/;(S*i76?(«,, Hook.). Pseu- 

 dobulbs oval, compressed: Ivs. solitary, plane, linear- 

 oblong, oVjtuse or emarginate: fls. solitary, small, deep 

 purple; sepals linear-oblong, acute, the lateral ones 

 produced at the base; petals subsimilar; labellum ob- 

 long, refuse, fleshy, membranous at the base: disk with 

 a small callus. Midwinter. Mex. B.M. 3614 (as M. 

 lIenchniannt).~A small plant, of interest only to 

 collectors. 



13. tenuifdlia, Lindl. Rhizomes erect, bearing ovate- 

 compressed pseudobulbs at irregular intervals : Ivs. 

 linear-lanceolate, .acute, recurved, grass-like, plane: fls. 

 small, spotted and shaded with purple and yellow; se- 

 pals ovate-lanceolate, margins revolute, reflexed; petals 

 ovate, acute, erect; labellum oblong, reflexed, with an 

 entire, oblong callus. Spring. Mex. B.R. 25:8. — Not 

 valuable 



M. dichrhma, Rolfe. Allied to M. venusta, but the petals are 

 suffused on the lower half with light iiinkish purple, the lip 

 being margined with the same color: sepals white. Grows 

 freely in a coolhouse. the fls. lasting for a long time. 



Heinrich Hasselbring. 



MAXIMILIANA (after Maximilian Joseph, first king 

 of Bavaria, 1756-1825, not Prince Maximilian Alexander 

 Philiiip, as said by some). Palmdcne. Tall, pinnate- 

 leaved palms, spineless, with ringed trunks : Ivs. 

 with linear pinnae in groups, the raidveins and trans- 

 verse nerves prominent ; rachis bifacial, strongly 

 compressed: petiole plano-convex. This genus is dis- 

 tinguished from Attalea as follows: petals of the male 

 fls, minute, much shorter than the 6 exserted stamens: 

 fr. 1-seeded; pinnte in groups instead of equidistant. 

 From Cocos and Scheelia it difi'ers in the above floral 

 characters and in the plano-convex instead of concavo- 

 convex petioles. Fr. yellow or brown, ovoid, with fibrous 

 or fleshy pericarp and bony endocarp. the latter 3-pored 

 at tlie base, acuminate at the apex. Species 3, St. Kitts, 

 Trinidad and S. Am. For culture, see Palms. 



A. Phinif verticiUate. 



Uarlpa, Drude (AltaUa MurXpa, Mart.). Stem thick, 



very tall: Ivs. 15 ft. long; segments ensiform acute, 



divaricate, the lower 3 ft. long, 2 in. wide, gradually 



diminishing upwards. Brazil. 



AA. Pinn(e in opposite clftatflrn. 

 Tigia., Mart. {Aftnlen amiiridannn). Fig. 1381. Stem 

 15-20 ft. high, 12-16 in. tliiek at the base, 3 times as 

 thick above because of the persistent petiole bases: Ivs. 

 15 ft. long; segments more slender, papery, disposed in 

 opposite clusters, the upper as broad as the lower. 

 Brazil. G.C. III. 1:232. Jared G. Smith. 



MAY in English poetry refers to the flowers of the 

 hawthorn, Crntwgus Oxyacantltd. 



MAY APPLE. Porlnphijlhim. fiee a\so Pa ssiflnrii. 



MAYBEKRY, JAPANESE GOLDEN. Name proposed 

 by Luther P.urbank fur li'iilnis palmatuK. 



MAYFLOWER of English literature is the same as 



the hawthorn, (Vnto(7)(S OxyacantJw; of New England is 

 £piijaii rcpciiK : of the more western states, Hepatica. 



MAY-WEED. Anthemis CotuJa . 



MAYTfiNUS (from a Chilean name). Celastrdcea-. 

 A genus of about 50 species of trees and shrubs mostly 

 from South America, some from tropical America. Bo- 

 tanically they are near our common bittersweet, Celas- 

 triis scaiii3e>is. Aside from habit, Maytenus differs from 

 Celastrus in having the ovary confluent with the disk 

 instead of free, and the cells are mostly 1-ovuled instead 



