Plate 117. 



PAPHINIA CRISTATA 



Crested PapJiinia. 



Gen. Char. Flores subregulares, expansi petaloidei^ panim in mentum producti. Lahclhim 

 parvum, unguiculatum, tripartitum,, glandulis filiformibus apice alibique obsitum. Culumna cla- 

 vata, elongata, semiteres_, apice auriculata. Pollinia 4^ per paria caudicula; elongatas apice setacese 

 affixa^ ylandula minuta subtriangulari ; rostello subulate. — B.erh2e ;pseudohulhosa, acapo pcudtiJo 

 paucijioro. Lindl. 



Paphinia cristata ; pseudobulbis ovatis sulcatis mono-tripliyllis, folils oblongo-laiicoolatis plicatis, 



scape pendulo biflore squamis laxiusculis vaginate, fleribus cxplanatis, Popalia pctalisqnc lan- 

 ceelatis acutis asqualibus, labello multo minere tripartite carneso, laciniis lateral ibns fnlcatis 

 intermedia rotundata cristato-fimbriata utrinque unidentata, nnguo subcristato disco biden- 



tato. Lindl. 



U 



Miscell 



Maxillaeia cristata. Lindl in Bot. Jlcg. t 1811. 



A very curious and really handsome Orchideous plant, native of Trinidad and Neu 

 Granada, first published by Dr. Lindley as a Maxillaria, and then very justly raided b} 

 him to the rank of a new genus.* It flowers freely in the Orchideous stove in August, 

 requiring considerable heat and moisture, and should always be kept in a pot. Unfor- 

 tunately, its splendid flowers are very fleeting, 



Descr. 'Pseudohulbs clustered, oblong-ovate, compressed, modcratel)' furrowed ; one 

 of the old bulbs is terminated by two leaves ; the younger one with three, besides leafy 

 scales at the base : these leaves are four to six inches long, lanceolate, patent, submcm- 

 branaceous, plicate. Peduncles solitary, single or two-flowered, pendent, emerging from 

 the base of a pseudobulb, jointed and sheathed with loose, brown, membranaceous 

 scales. Sepals and petals alike in shape, the latter smaller, all of them patent, lancro- 

 late, fleshy, having a white ground, variously streaked, and blotched, and spotted witli 

 dark chocolate-brown : the intermediate less covered with brown, and with more regu- 

 lar transverse bands. Lip very curious in form, almost entirely of a rich chocolatc- 

 piuple colour, very much smaller than the petals or sepals, somewhat o\atc in circum- 

 scription, shortly unguiculate, thick and fleshy, deeply two-lobed; two lateral lobes 



• P. tigrina is a second species, and I have no doubt tliat the so-called Ct/cnoches hnrhatum will be 

 found to form a third, under the name of P. barbafa. 



