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MAXILLARIA 



LUTEO-ALBA 



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LATE 106.] 



Mitive of ColomUa. 



Epiphytal. Pseudohulhs large, about two and a half inches high, ovate obtuse, 



. .1 , , . - ,, ''^P^^ ^ solitary leaf. Leaves stalked by the 



6 ot the basal portion oblong obtuse, a foot long or more, of a dark ^rocn 



colour. Peduncles radical, about half the length of the leaves, invested throughout 



with e^reen sheathing bracts. Flowers large and peculiar in form, triangular in 



compressed, clustered, bearing at the 

 foldin 



gi 



outline, and mcasurin 



the lateral 



about six inches from the top of the dorsal to the top of 



long, 



pal, brownish externally; dorsal 



sepa 



oblong, acute, three inches 



of a tawny yellow in the upper two-thfrds of its length, the basal third 



white ; lateral sepals of the same for 



m 



erect, or 



the 



with 



sepa 



ewhat projecting like two horns, ovate 



size, and colours, but twisted 



petals two, 



white at the base 



a 



hairy, the 



h. of pale bi 



ith a few splashes of purpl 



oblonff. about half as long as 



of about 



equ 



size betwe 



the tip 



lip concave at the base. 



margins undulated, three-lobcd, the lobes obtuse, the lateral ones short 



one oblong, emarginate, recurved, tin 



yellow, striped with purple, the front 



central portion convex, yellow, the 

 creamy-white. 



margins p 



hitish 



Col 



short, curved, 



Maxillaiua LUTEO-ALBA, Lindky, Orchidacece LindeniancB, 20; Reichenhach fil. 



m Walpers' Annales Botanices Systematicew, 



VI., 516; Id. Bonj^landia, ii., 15, 280. 



The 



Maxlllarias form a genus of Orchids not much 



appreciated 



iny 



growers, but of late there has been greater variety introduced among them, and they 

 are becom 



kindt 



o 



more popular in cultivation. Some of the better and more sliowv 



s are quite worth bringing before our 

 and most of them 



eaders, as they 



are free-growing plants 



may 



be kept along with the cool Orchid 



Our figure of Maxilla ria luteo-alha 



was taken fr 



I 



we flow 



at 



HoUoway, and exhibited at one of the meetings of the Eoyal Horticultural Society 



d for 



hich we were 



led 



a 



Fir 



CI 



Certifi 



We bloomed it 



years 



o 



but we found that Orchid 



my 



g 



of the 



not seen it. 



pre 



day had many of them 



plants 

 When 



We find it very useful for cutting purposes, as it flowers when the 



small 



hich 



our opinion is far better 



than making larg 



they get too large we cut them into several 



pieces, and grow 



ipecimc 

 them 



on 



again for blooming, 

 without damaging the 

 which are so much in 



The flowers having stalks about six inches long, may be cut 



plants ; they 



extremely useful for b 



bo u qu 



Maxill 



quest at the present day 



about 



o 



luteo-alha is an evergreen plant, with dark 

 inches high. 



g 



foliac/e, and grows 



o 



The flowers proceed from the base of the pseudobulbs 



