outer divisions of the perigon broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
nearly an inch long, almost pointed, the margins rolled back, striate, 
and yellowish outside, of a rich purple inside, marked, especially in 
the lower part, with yellow spots and blotches. Lareran Perazs or 
inner divisions similar to the sepals but smaller. Poucn or spur of 
the base of the flower very short and scarcely perceptible. LABELLUM 
attached to the base of the column by a moveable joint; rather longer 
than the sepals, oblong, broad, and channelled at the base, slightly 
contracted above the middle but not divided, the upper end bent back 
and blunt, nearly of the same colour as the sepals but with more 
yellow. CoLumMN shorter than the petals, arched, convex, and yellow 
on the back, flat and spotted in front. ANTHER-CASE purple. 
PopuLar aND GeoGcrapHicaL Notice. The genus Maxillaria is 
now become a very extensive one; the number of species enumerated 
by Dr. Lindley at the end of 1832 was forty, and has since been 
nearly doubled by the numerous collectors recently sent out in quest 
_ of epiphytes. The Maxillarias are all natives of the tropical parts of 
America, and most of them very showy and of easier growth than 
many other genera, so as to admit of their being brought into a 
drawing room, and being enjoyed without the oppressive atmosphere 
of an epiphyte house. 
InTRopucTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This species was 
one of the first gathered by Mr. Hartweg, collector to the Horticultural 
Society, after he had landed at Vera Cruz, and was one of many other 
quite new and showy plants he found in that neighbourhood, which 
one would have thought had been almost exhausted by the numerous 
botanists who had previously visited it, but such is the richness of that 
district that every fresh traveller finds something new to reward his - 
researches. The plant was propagated and distributed, as far as 
circumstances admitted, by the Society; and the individual from 
which our drawing was taken was in a flourishing condition in the 
stoves of Messrs. Rollisson of Tooting. It requires the usual treat- 
ment of Orchidaceous plants—a hot humid stove during its season of 
growth. 
DERIVATION OF THE NamMEs. 
Maxirarta, from the comparison of o moveable labellum to a jaw, in Latin 
> MAXILLA. TrEnvtro.ia, slender-leay 
Syn E. 
Maxrrraria TENvIFoutsA. Lindley: mikiidedl Register, in a Note to t, 1986, 
