MAXILLARIA, ;,' - 509' 



sepals spreading, the dorsal one oblong Hgulate, galeate, and .extended into a- 

 longish tail, the, dorsal ones somewhat-narrower; the colour is a bright yellow 

 with a dark violet blotch at the base of the lateral sepals. . Blooms ihsuknr 

 Z7. S. of Colombia. 1 



nmer.- 



WAXILL ARIA, Ruiz et Pavon. 



{Tribe Vandeae, subtribe Maxillarieae.) 



This is a large genus of Orchids, numbering over a Hundred species, 

 but mSny of them, on account of the' small size of their' flowers, are not 

 worthy of cultivation as decorativ^e plants. Those we have enumerated kve, 

 however, plants of some character, and deserving a place in collections. 

 Some of them are pseudobulbous, in which case the , isine-flowered scapes 

 proceed from thebasei of the bulbs, and others form a-^tem with dense 

 distichous leaves," these bearing the solitary flowers in .the axils of the 

 leaves.. The genus has been much diminished by the. separation of 

 Xiycaste, Golax, liPromenaea, Bifrenaria, and others, though still con- 

 taining numerous species.' ' : ^:' 



Culkire.— These plants are all of evergreen habit, and can be grown 

 in the cool house with Odontoglos^ums. They succeed best grown in 

 pots, in a mixture of peat and moss, and require a liberal supply of 

 water during their growing season, the amount being reduced during 

 the period of rest, when only just sufficient to ,keep them in a pluip.p 

 state should be given them. _ .,„ - 



M. AROMATICA.— See Lycaste akomatica. 



M. BROCKLEHURSTIANA.^^See Houllbtia Bbocklehtjiistiana. 



M. CALLICHROMA, Rclfb.f. — An old and beautiful species which was dis- 

 covered by Wageher when collecting in Venezuela, and until recently was 

 extremely rare. " ' It is allied to if. luteo-alba, but the scapes are much shorter, 

 and the plant: is smaller in all its parts. The sepals are linear lanceolate, white at 

 the base, golden yellow at the extremities ; the lateralohes curved inward at the 

 tip in the form of a sickle;' the sepals are purplish-brown at the base, white in 

 the middle and yellow at the extremities, strongly curved backward ; lip three- 

 lobed, the lateral lobes purolish-brown, mid-lobe white, disk yellow. — Venezuela. 



Fig. — Lindenia, yiii. t. 377. • i 



M. CRISTATA,— See Paphinia CRISTATA. , ; 



M. CRUENTA.— See Lycaste cruenta.^ ; 



M. DEPPEI.— See' Lycaste Deppei. / 



M. ENDRESII, Bchh.f. — Having flowered in the Hamburg Botanic Garden in 

 1870, this species appears tohave 'been lost sight of until Messrs. Low &.'Co. intro.' 



