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duced it again in 1886. " It has very broad elliptical bulbs, which finally are as 

 much wrinkled, or nearly so, as in an old plant of Onddium ampliatum; leaves 

 cuneate-ligulate, blunt, acute ; peduncle rather short ; bract equalling, or shorter 

 than the stalked ovary ; sepals and petals light oohre-colouied, triangular 

 ligulate, tapering in an acuminate manner, and having a short bristle at the 

 top ; petals smaller ; side laciniae semi-oblong, angulate at the top, light ochre, 

 coloured with a purple border and similar coloured veins, mid-lacinia oblong- 

 acute, ovary toothletted, ochre-coloured with a yellow disk ; a triangular callus, 

 much depressed, between side laciniae ; the whole internal area hairy " (H. Gr. 

 Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxv. p. 680). — Costa Mica. 



M. FUCATA, Rchh. f. — In describing this handsome species the late Professor 

 Reichenbach mentions that the distribution of colour is very uncommon, adding 



with his usual quaint humour, 

 " I could not help remembering 

 some Harlequins I had seen 

 with the paint not quite washed 

 off their faces.'' The flowers 

 measure about 1\ inch; the 

 sepals are white at the base, 

 purplish in the middle, yellow 

 with red spots at the apex; 

 petals similar to the sepals but 

 without the spots at the apex. 

 It first flowered in the collec- 

 tion of Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 w'^ Bart. — Ecuador (?) 



Fig. — Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 

 1888, iv. p. .')77, f. 81 ; VeUch's 

 Man. Orcli. PI., ix. p. 153. 



M. FULVESCENS. - See 



LYCASTE rULVESCENS. 



M. GALEATA.-See Acro- 



PERA LODDIGESII. 



M. GLUMACEA, Bolfe.—A. 

 species allied to M. aciantha 

 and M. coriacea. " The glume- 

 like very acute and rigid sepals 



MAXILLAEIA FUCATA. „■,■,■, i, ■ ■, 



„ , , „, . , , are of a dull yellowish-green, 



(From the Gardeners Chronicle.) , ,, . ^ j.i, i- 



^ -^ as are also the petals ; the lip 



has dull maroon-purple side lobes, while the front lobe is deep blackish-brown, 

 with yellow margin and apex, and the fleshy linear callus of shining purple- 

 brown ; the short scapes are clothed with about four or five loose imbricating 

 scales " (R. A. Eolfe, in Kew Bulletin, 1892, p. 210).— Brazil. 



M. GRANDIFLORA, Lindl.—A. handsome species, with the aspect of tkLycaste. 

 The pseudobulbs are depressed ovate, two-edged, and of a deep green colour ; 



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