MAXILLARIA. 



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the blade. Scapes about 6 inches long ; bracts broadly ovate, acute, 

 prominently keeled. Flowers 2|- inches in diameter, of rather coriaceous 

 texture ; sepals white at the base, brick-red in the middle, tawny yellow 

 spotted with red-brown at the apex ; the dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, sub- 

 apiculate, strongly keeled behind, the lateral two much larger, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse ; petals oblong, apiculate, reflexed at the apex, white at 

 the base with some brick -red lines, the apical area yellow ; lip sub- 

 orbicular, obscurely lobed, thickened at the apex, red-brown at the base, 

 sulphur - yellow at the apex ; plate of disk grooved bright yellow. 

 Column triquetral, bent, whitish. 



Maxillaria fucata, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXVI. (188G), p. 616. Card. Chron. IV- 

 s. 3 (1888), p. 577, with fig. (errore fuscata). 



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Maxillaria fucata. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



sub-var.— Hubschii. 



Flowers identical in size and structure ; sepals and petals French- 

 white with an irregular purple apical spot ; lip light yellow in front, 

 reddish brown at the lateral margins. Column white, streaked with 

 red-brown below the stigma. 



M, fucata Hubschii, supra. M. Hubschii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. III. s. 3 (1888), 

 p. 136. 



