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across the lateral sepals, light yellow, paler at the back with here and 

 there a sanguineous spot ; sepals linear, acute ; petals similar hut 

 narrower and mOre acute ; lip obscurely lohed, as long as the column, 

 reflexed at the apex, yellow with red longitudinal lines. Column 

 slender, semi-terete, pale yellow, red at the apex. 



Maxillaria punctata, Lodd. Bot. Cab, XX. t. 1914 (1833). Card. Chrou. II. s. 3 



(1887), p. 787. 



A small-flowered but very floriferous species imported from Brazil 

 some time prior to 1833, in wliich year it was figured in Loddiges' 

 Botanical Cabinet. It is in cultivation at Kew and Glasnevin. 



M. rufescens. 



. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, sub-tetragonous, 2 inches long, monophyllous. 



Leaves ligulate-oblongj acute, 6 — 8 inches long. Peduncles ascending, 



1 — 2 inches long, purplish with a dark red-brown sheathing bract at 



the base and a similar larger one at the base of the ovary. Sepals 



lignlate, sub-acute, reddish brown ; petals similar but narrower and 



shorter, light yellow ; lip three-lobed, yellow spotted with red, the side 



lobes roundish, erect ; the intermediate lobe oblong, gently reflexed, the 



thickened plate between the side lobes buff-yellow. Column triquetral, 



reddish brown. 



Maxillaria rufescens, Lindl. in Bot. Beg. XXI. sub. t. 1802 ; and XXII. t. 1848 

 (1836). Saunders' Ref. Bot. II. pi. 79 and 133. M. fucata, Hort. (not of Rchb.). 



Originally imported from Trinidad by Messrs. Low and Co. upwards 



of sixty years ago ; it also occurs in Cuba where it was collected 



by Wright_, and in Caracas where it was found by Wagener.* It 



flowered for the first time in this country at Chatsworth in 1834. 



The species appears to be variable in the size and colour of its 



flowers. 



M. Sanderiana. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, compressed with acute edges, 2 inches long, 

 monophyllous. Leaves petiolate, narrowly oblong, acute, 7 — 12 inches 

 long. Scapes decumbent, sometimes ascending, 5 — 6 inches long ; 

 bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, \\ inch long. Flowers 5 — 6 inches 

 across the lateral sepals ; sepals ovate-oblong, apiculate, the lateral two 

 broader at the base than the dorsal one which is keeled beliind, 

 French-white, the dorsal one spotted with sanguineous red at the base 

 only, the lateral two heavily blotched and spotted with sanguineous 

 red to beyond the middle ; petals erect, similar to the lateral sepals 

 and coloured like them but smaller ; lip fleshy, ovate, three-lobed, 

 ivory-white with some deep sanguineous stains on the side lobes 



* Fid.6 Keichenbacli in Saunders' ILefucjium Botanicum, II. sub, pi. 133, 



