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No- 1645. 



MAXILLARIA GALEATA. 



Class, Order. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA 



We are indel)ted for this name to the kind 

 assistance of our discerning friend Mr. John 

 Lindley, whose elaborate work on the Or- 

 chideous plants, describing and arranging 

 such a multitude of genera and species of 

 this beautiful and interesting order, is in- 

 deed a most valuable acquisition to science. 



We received tlus extraordinary plant in 

 1828, from Mr. Deppe, at Xalapa. It 

 flowered in August 1830, the blossoms al- 

 most all opening in a single day, remaining 

 nearly two weeks, and then dropping all at 

 once : they have a powerful odour, some- 

 thing like that of wall-flower- 



It requires constant stove heat, and will 

 increase slowly by dividing its roots : the 

 soil we have used for it, and in which it 

 appears to thrive, is composed of sand, saw- 

 dust, and moss, in equal proportions. 



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