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No. 1709. 
GOVENIA SUPERBA. 
Clase: Order. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
This elegant plant we suspect to be the - 
Maxillaria superba of De la Llave, which 
as well as his other and kindred species, 
Liliacea, would appear to differ generically 
from true Maxillariæ. In this we have the 
concurrent authority of our very discerning 
friend Mr. Lindley, who has also kindly 
suggested the above name, in honour of a 
gentleman well known to most persons who 
interest themselves in the more refined and 
ornamental branches of Horticulture. 
Our plant was received from Mr. Deppe, 
at Xalapa, in the autumn of 1828, and 
flowered in March 1831. The scape was 
two feet in height. The flowers, which ex- 
pand before the leaves are fully developed, 
have a delicate fragrance, and, like most of 
this class, are very durable. 
It requires the stove, and should be pot- 
ted in vegetable earth, with a little sand. 
We have not yet been able to increase it. 
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