994 



JIATTHIOLA 



bic6rnis, DC. H.ilf-slu-ulpby. .str:L,;;-lin.!? annual or bi- 

 ennial: fls. smaller than those o£ M. itu-tina, purplish 

 or lilac, fragrant by night, closing by <lay: pod terete, 

 long, 2-hornecl: Ivs. pinnatifid, or the uppermost entire. 



Greece, A.sia Minor. 



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MAXILLARIA 



EB. Cali/.r ijhihi-OKS, shorli'r. 

 semp6rllorens, Ort. Fls. lavender-colored ; throat 

 rhite. B.M. 460. -Cult, in S. Calif. 



.A. Seeds with a JaceratnJ or irni/uhir iriiiij.- rtili/r 



serrate. {Si(bgeiiiif I , „ , i 



B. CoroJta lobes "> '• Inil. 



erub§8cens, Gray. Lvs. -..nr ,i i,;,i n immilar in out- 



MAURANDIAf.'iftfrMn 



J/. It. 



which is procurable in a greater range of colors than 

 the others. Maurandias are desirable vines for winter- 

 flowering in cool greenhouses, but since they bloom the 

 first year from seed, they are almost wholly grown for 

 summer bloom outdoors and treated like tender annuals. 

 They have a slender habit and grow about 10 ft. in a 

 season. In the fall the vines may be taken up and re- 



I'.m':' ': ■'■ :i*riu^ is TM'urest to the snapdragon, 

 tliiHi: !i I : iIm iliiAcr is not closed. The plant 



kiiii.'i. : ...' \\\ ■.\~' Mfinrandla antirrhiniflora 



when- tliis phint is fi^'ured.) It is a climber and requires 

 the culture of Maurandia. Maurandias climb by the 

 twisting of the leaf- and (iower-stalks. They are glabrous 

 or pubescent: Ivs. alternate, or the lower ones opposite, 

 halberd-shaped, angular-lobed or coarsely toothed: 

 calyx 5-parted ; segments narrow or broad : corolla tube 

 scarcely bulged at the base; posterior lip 2-cut; ante- 

 rior lip variously parted: stamens 4-didynamous. 



/^?-^: 



1378. Maurandia scanden 



A. Seeds tubercled, wingless: calyx segments 



Irs. hastate, not serrate. [Subgenus Ilumaurandia.) 

 B. CahjT distinrtltj gln»rhilnr-pilose: segments long- 

 all, uuate. 

 Barclaiina, Lindl. Umi illy, but not originally, written 

 Barrlai/aiia. BK 1') 11(18. L.B.C. 14.1381. V. 5:353. 

 —The following trade names advertised like species- 

 names are presumably all color-varieties of this species : 

 M. alba, albiflora, £'»i< rijiina ro\en , purpurea grandi- 

 flora, variui. The last is a trade name for mixed 

 varieties. 



BB. Corolla lobes acute. 

 Gray (Lophosp^rmum scdndens, D. Don). 

 Fig. 1378. Perhaps only a botanical variety of the pre- 

 ceding. B.M. 3G50.— A hybrid with the preceding is 



shown in B. 



W. M. 



HAUBtTIA (after Prince Moritz, of Nassau, 1567-16()5, 

 patron of Piso and Marcgraf ; by his aid a Natural His- 

 tory of Brazil was published). Pahniiceit. Very grace- 

 ful fan p:dnis, almost spineless : stems very slender, 

 obscur(-l> lihji '1: 1 . pinnatelyflabelliform, semi-circu- 

 lar, orlii' ■ l-sliaped, the lobes lanceolate, 

 acumin:,!. _■ ur short; petiole cylindrical: 

 ovary |i.ii..ii> .i.ijnil. There are U or 7 tropical 

 American .s(,t,:i>;o. 



flexudsa, Linn, f . Moriche Palm. Stems without sto- 

 lons : Ivs. 20-30, erect-spreading, 9-16 ft. long ; blade 

 2yi-i ft. long, yellowish beneath; lobes %-VA in. wide; 

 petiole stout, rigid, semi-cylindrical, equalingthe blade: 

 fr. nearly 2 in. long, depressed-globose ; seed W^ in. long. 

 Trop. Brazil.— Offered in 1889 by Reasouer Bros. In 

 the Amazon delta this palm grows to 150 ft. or more in 

 height, with a trunk often 30 in. in diam. at base. "The 

 fruit is spherical, the size of a small apple, and covered 

 with rather small, smooth, brown, reticulated scales, 

 beneath which is a thin coating of pulp. A spadix loaded 

 with fruit is of immense weight, often more than two 



men could carry between them." ( ) Wallace, 



"Palms otthe Amazon." Jared G. Smith. 



MAXILLAKIA (Latin, wonV/n, jaw; referring to the 

 mentum). OreliidAcea. Mostly pseudobulbous, epiphytic 

 orchids, resembling Lycaste in general appearance. 

 The genus contains over 100 species, dispersed at va- 

 rious altitudes in Mexico, Brazil and the West Indies. 

 About 15 species are offered by dealers in America. 

 Many of these have small flowers and are of value only 

 in collections. They are, however, easily grown, and 

 blossom profusely. Among those given below, tho 

 large, white-flowered M. granditlora and M. venusta, 

 and the white and purple M. Satideriana are probably 

 the best species. Rhizomes short or long, creeping or 

 erect, and clothed with distichous Ivs.: pseudobulbs 

 clustered or scattered on the rhizome, 1-2-lvd. or 

 densely distichophyllous at the apex of the rhizome: 

 Ivs. leathery or subfleshy, plicate or plane and keeled, 

 distichous: sepals subequal, free from each other but 

 united with the foot of the column and forming a pro- 

 jecting mentum; petals similar or smaller; labellum 3- 

 lobed, movably articulated to the foot of the column: 

 lateral lobes erect; middle lobe with longitudinal cal- 

 losities. The scape arises apparently from the base of 

 the pseudohnlb, on the very young leafy axis, but lower 

 down than the corresponding new growth. Pollinia 4, 

 seated on a broad, scale-like stipe. The distichous ar- 

 rangement of the Ivs. distinguishes this genus from 

 Lycaste. For M. ffarrisoniw trndletragona , see Lycaste. 

 Heinrich Hasselbrino. 



Maxillarias are of easy culture, and can be grown un- 

 der various methods of treatment with fair success. 

 The best compost consists of clean peat fiber taken from 

 the several species of Osmunda, and live sphagnum, 

 both chopped rather fine and well mixed together. After 

 the receptacle is half filled with clean drainage and the 

 plant properly placed, the compost should be pressed 

 firmly in around the roots, interspersing it with nodules 

 of charcoal. In their native habitats, many of the fine- 

 rooted species growon rocks and treeswith verylittle com- 

 post attached. The base of the pseudobulbs or rhizome 

 should rest on a convex surface raised a little above the 



