404 orchid-gkower's manual. 



base, brown about the centre, and yellow at the tip, while 

 the short three-lobecl lip is recurved, yellow with paler edges 

 in front, and the side lobes erect, striped with purple. — New 

 Grenada. 

 :Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 106. 



MAXILLARIA LUTEO-ALBA. 



M. nigrescens, Lindley. — A very curious and distinct 

 species, with oval compressed pseudobulbs, bearing a solitary 

 oblong-Ugulate dark green coriaceous leaf, and producing its 

 flowers singly on erect peduncles. The sepals and petals 

 are spreading, port-wine colour, the lip of the same colour, 

 but stained in addition with dull purple. It blooms at 

 various times of the year, and should be grown in the cool 

 house. — New Grenada. 

 Syn. — M. rubrofusca. 



M. SpleMens, Poepp. et Endl. — A very handsome plant, 

 deserving a place in every collection ; in growth it is some- 

 thing like M. venusta, but more robust. It has oval anci- 

 pitous pseudobulbs, solitary long linear leaves, attenuated at 

 the base, obliquely bidentate at the apex, and rather large 



