PKOMEN^A. 



PROMENiEA CITRINA. 



three inclies long, beai'ing each a comparatively showy deep 

 rich yellow flower with a dark crimson blotch at the base of 

 the lip, which is obovate in the front part, with two oblong 

 obtuse erect basal lobes which 

 are spotted with crimson ; they 

 are produced at the end of the 

 summer, lasting in beauty for 

 several weeks. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 7. 

 SyN. — Maxillaria citrina. 



P. microptera, BcU. /.—A 



distinct and pretty little species 

 introduced by ourselves, and 

 related to P. xcmthina. The 

 sepals and petals are creamy 

 white or light ochre-coloured, and the lip, which has the 

 front lobe elongate and lance-shaped, and the two lateral 

 lobes minute, is white, having three transverse bars of dull 

 crimson on the disk, and small purple spots at the base. It 

 flowers during the summer months. — Brazil. 



S YN.— Zygojictalum micropterum, 



P, Eollissoni, Lindley. — A curious little plant with roundish 

 compressed pseudobulbs, bearing about two oblong-lanceolate 

 venose leaves from the top and other accessory ones from the 

 base. The deflexed scapes come from the axils of the latter, 

 and bear one or two pale yellow flowers during the autumn 

 months, lasting three weeks or more in beauty ; the lip is 

 whitish with the middle lobe oblong, apiculate, and the lateral 

 lobes narrow ovate acute, like two erect ears standing up 

 from the base, the whole being spotted with crimson. — 

 Brazil. 



FlG.—Bot. Reg., 1838, t. 40. 

 Stn. — Maxillaria Rollissoni. 



P. stapelioides, Lindley. — An interesting and pleasing 

 species, remarkable for its singular speckled flowers, which 

 have suggested the specific name. The pseudobulbs are 

 small, ovate, tetragonal, one or two-leaved, the leaves 

 lanceolate, thin, light green, with a pale glaucous reticulation. 

 The peduncle is deflexed, two-flowered, the sepals and petals 

 roundish ovate, acute, spreading, greenish yellow, transversely 

 spotted and barred with dark purple ; the lip deep purple 



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