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MAXILLA’RIA TENUIFO'LIA, 
NARROW. LEAVED MAXILLARIA, 
ENDOGENZE. OR MONOCOTYLEDONE®, — 
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NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACEA. 
GYNANDROSH, Artificial divisions YNANDRIA, 
OF to which pe DRIA, 
LINDLEY. this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUSs, 
No. 140. a 
Maxin Ruiz et Pavon. Pexrriconir patentis vel con- 
niventis foliola ical seteeidtinc cum basi producta columnz in saccum 
connata; interiora subconformia. LasBELtuM cum i oo age 
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articulatum, sessile, trilobum, cucullatum. CoLtumNna apte 
THERA Facomplete bilocularis, opercularis. Possini. jak; bipartibilia vel Sta. 
gr Hersz Americanetropice, 
epiphyte, pseudobulbose caulescentes, vel swpius acaules, foliis plicatis vel 
* coreaceis, Bane & radicalibus axillaribus vel terminalibus. EnpzicuEr: 
Genera Plantaru 
SPECIES. wae TENUIFOLIA. LinpLey. Caulescens, pseudo- bulbis 
ovato-oblongis compressis monophyllis scapis longioribus paca a 
acutis recurvis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis basi squamatis, den 
dato are cernuis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis margine rev CR as ee 
ualibus; 
contracto, callo disco oblongo integerrimo. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, MaxiLLaria. PERIGON spreading or 
connivent, the outer lateral divisions connate with the produced base 
of the column into a kind of pouch, the inner ones nearly similar. 
LABELLUM articulate on the produced base of the column, sessile, 
three-lobed, hood-shaped. Co Lumn semicylindrical, without wings. 
ANTHER incompletely two-celled, in the form of a lid. POLLEN 
MASSES two, divisible into two or entire, fixed by short tails to the 
transverse gland. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, MAaXILLARIA TENUIFOLIA. EpI- 
PHYTE producing leafy stems, and pseudo-bulbs of an oval-oblong 
compressed shape, each terminated in a single leaf. Leaves linear, 
pointed, keeled and folded at the base, often one to two feet long and 
three or four lines broad. PEpuNcLEs solitary, axillary or proceeding 
from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, less than an inch long, and)con- 
cealed by three or four brown membranous imbricate sheathing 
uame. Ovary two inches long, curved, slender, having the 
appearance of a peduncle, smooth. FLowers nodding. SEpats or 
