402 okchtd-geower's manual. 



fringed, clad on the interior surface with long hairs, and 

 terminating in long purple-red tails. — Neiv Grenada. 



Fig.— 5o<. Mag., t. 6152; Rev. Eort., 1881, 130, with tab,; Floral Mag., 

 2 ser,, t. 149 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., iii. 41, fig. 5. 



M. "Wallisii Stupenda, Rchb.f. — This is a remarkably fine 

 variety, the finest of the group yet seen, on account of the 

 breadth of the triangular surface of its sepals, and its rich 

 colouring. The tails are chocolate-coloured, and the same 

 colour occurs at the apex on the outside of the triangular 

 part, mostly on the upper sepal. The colour of the interior 

 is light sulphur, with some large chocolate-coloured spots 

 over the triangular parts, the inner surface being hairy and 

 the margins fringed. The disk around the internal organs is 

 orange, and at each side of the petals stands a white cushion- 

 like body covered with numerous scarlet spots. It blossoms 

 during the winter months. It has been flowered by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. — New Grenada. 



M. xantllilia, BM. f. — A curious little plant in the way 

 of M. Wageneriana, but stronger in its growth, and with 

 larger and more attractive flowers. The leaves are cuneate- 

 oblong, and the flowers with scarcely any tube, the three 

 sepals spreading, the dorsal one oblong ligulate, galeate, and 

 extended into a longish tail, the dorsal ones somewhat 

 narrower ; the colour is a bright yellow with a dark violet 

 blotch at the base of the lateral sepals. — Colombia. 



MaxiLLAEIA, Ruiz et Pavofi. 

 (Tribe Vandese, subtribe Maxillariese.) 



This a large genus of Orchids, numbering over a hundred, 

 but many of them, on account of the small size of their flowers, 

 are not worthy of cultivation as decorative plants. Those 

 we have enumerated are, however, plants of some character, 

 and deserving a place in collections. Some of them are 

 pseudobulbous, in which case the one-flowered scapes proceed 

 from the base of the bulbs, and others form a stem with 

 dense distichous leaves, these bearing the solitary flowers in 

 the axils of the leaves. The genus has been much diminished 



