158 MAXILLA i; I A. 



One of tlie Lindenian discoveries ou the Cordillera of Merida in 

 1842 ; it was eollected some years later near Hato Arribo by 

 Wagener, who introduced it to tlie Botanic Garden at Hamburgh. 

 The dark and lurid colour of its flowers secures for it a place in 

 many collections. 



M. Parkeri. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, much compressed, 1| — 2 inches long, monophyllous. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 10 — 15 inches long conduplicate at the 

 base. Peduncles about 3 inches long, sheathed by alternate, imbricating, 

 slightly inflated bracts that are striated with dull crimson. Flowers 

 3^ inches across the lateral sepals; sepals oblong, light tawny yellow, the 

 dorsal one apiculate and with a median sunk line ; petals lanceolate, 

 acute, reflexed at the apex, cream-white Avith 7 — 9 purple lines on the 

 basal half ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, incurved, streaked 

 longitudinally with purple ; the terminal lobe narrowly oblong, reflexed, 

 tawny yellow passing into white at the denticulate margin ; plate of 

 disk downy, thickened in front. Column semi-terete, dark purple ; 

 anther white. 



Maxillaria Parkeri, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2729. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 146. 

 An attractive species originally discovered in Demerara by Mr. 

 C. S. Parker, who sent it to the Liverpool Botanic Garden^ where it 

 flowered in 1827. It has since been occasionally imported. 



M. picta. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, 2 — 3 inches long, compressed, mono-diphyllous. 



Leaves narrowly ligulate, acute, 9 — 15 inches long. Peduncles half as 



long as the leaves. Sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, more or less 



incurved ; the sepals light tawny yellow on the inside, Avhitish spotted 



with purple behind ; the petals coloured like the sepals with the 



addition of a red streak at the base ; lip oblong, white marked with 



purple on the side lobes which are narrow and erect, the front lobe 



reflexed, acute ; plate of disk oblong, downy. Column terete, blackish 



purple. 



Maxillaria picta, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 315i (1832). Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. 

 p. 146. Bot. Beg. t. 1802. 



Originally sent to Mrs. Arnold Harrison, of Liverpool, in 1831 by 

 her relative Mr. William Harrison, who had gathered it on the 

 Organ Mountains, near Eio Janeiro, and shortly afterwards imported 

 by Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. Like many of the older intro- 

 ductions from Brazil which were once generally cultivated, it has of 

 late years receded in public favour. 



