452 OBCHID-GRO wee's MANUAIi. 



shorter ovate cuspidate, with a claw which bears two collateral 

 crispy call), which, with the disk, are bright orange. This 

 species, which blooms during the summer months, and lasts 

 several weeks in perfection, is well grown by W. Vaimer, Esq., 

 of Chislehurst. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ii. t. 71 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 158 (as maxillare) ; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 6144 (as maxillare). 



mulUS, Rchb. f. — A very handsome plant, intermediate 

 between 0. luteo-purpureum and 0. gloriosum, differing from 

 the first in its narrower sepals and petals and its constricted 

 pandurate lip, and from the second in its broader sepals and 

 petals, its pandurate lip, the thicker cirrhi of its column, and 

 its radiant subbasilar callus. The habit and vegetative organs 

 of the plant resemble those of 0. luteo-purpureum, and it 

 produces large branching many-flowered panicles of star- 

 shaped flowers ; the sepals and petals are bright yellow, very 

 wavy at the margins, irregularly blotched with cinnamon brown ; 

 and the lip panduriform, yellow with a cinnamon blotch to- 

 wards the centre and two or three small spots near the crest. 

 It flowers during the spring months. — New Grenada. 

 YiG.—Xenia Orch.,u.t. 160, figs. 1, 2. 



0. mulus Holfordianum, Bchb. f. — A very fine variety of 

 the preceding, which was flowered by R. S. Holford, Esq., 

 Westonbirt, Tetbury, under the care of Mr. Chapman. The 

 ground colour of the flowers is whitish yellow, the sepals and 

 petals being marked with very dark purple-brown blotches ; 

 the lip is white, and has a large pandurate purple spot and 

 several smaller ones on the margins and base. — New 

 Grenada. 



0. Murrelliamim, Rchb. f. — A very lovely plant, imported 

 with 0. Pescatorei, and doubtless a natural hybrid between 

 that species and 0. ncevium. It was named in honour of Mr. 

 Murrell, gardener to the late W. B. Hume, Esq., in whose 

 collection it first flowered. The plant quite resembles 0. 

 Pescatorei, and bears a raceme like that of 0. ncevium, the 

 lanceolate acute sepals and petals being plane, not at all wavy, 

 white with a light purplish violet tint, with some darker 

 purple blotches distributed with the greatest irregularity ; the 

 narrow three-lobed lip bears on its disk golden lamelliform 

 toothed calli, and has the side lobes semiovate, and the front 

 one ligulate acute and crenulate. — Neiv Greyiada. 



