MAXILLARIA SANDERIANA. 
[Piate 463.] 
Native of Peru. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate, compressed, and of a deep green, bearing a 
‘single leaf, which is oblong, acute, somewhat leathery in texture, nearly a foot in 
length, and deep green. ape about six inches high, issuing from the base of 
the pseudobulbs, sometimes decumbent, at other times erect, clothed with boat- 
shaped bracts, bearing a single large flower measuring five inches or more across. 
Sepals spreading, ovate, pure white, stained at the base with dark chocolate-brown, 
with some spots of the same colour immediately above the edge; petals much 
smaller than the sepals, ovate, acute, reflexed at the tips, white, but thickly spotted 
with chocolate in the basal half, leaving the upper portion pure white; Jip erect, 
— stained with deep chocolate at the base ; ; the spreading front lobe creamy 
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MaxILLartIa SANDERIANA, Reichenbach fil., MS.; Reve tart Ist series, vol. 
i, t. 25. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th Aen p- 637 
This is, without a doubt, one of the most handsome and attractive members 
of this genus, having for its affinities the fine Mawillaria grandiflora and M. 
Lehmannii, which, together with M. venusta, M. luteo-alba, M. lepidota, ete., 
serve to remove the genus Mazillaria from the oblivion into which it had fallen 
by the withdrawal from it of many fine species now found in the genera Lycaste, 
Bifrenaria, and some others, and which formerly were included with it. The 
plants left to represent the genus were not. very attractive, but we have found 
many of the species, although lacking size and frequently wanting in the: colour 
of their flowers, exceedingly interesting, and many of them highly fragrant. , The 
present species, however, is one of the large-flowered kinds, and was discovered® by 
Edward Klaboch in the mountains of Peru at some 4,000 feet elevation about nine 
or ten years ago. It first flowered in this country in the grand collection of 
Baron Schroeder, at The Dell, Egham, in 1885, under the care of Mr. Ballantine; 
but the specimen whose portrait we have the pleasure to lay before our readers, 
bloomed in our own collection in the Victoria and Paradise besiireas Upper 
Holloway, in the month of March last year. 
Mazillaria Sanderiana is an evergreen plant and a robust grower, which, as 
it becomes established after its importation, blooms freely enough; there has, 
however, been a great deal of controversy as to its being a cool house or a hot 
house species, but as it was found at about 4,000 feet elevation, we cannot expect 
it to thrive with plants that are found growing at double that altitude. Moreover, 
