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OfiCHID-GROWEE'K MANUAL. 



, MiLUTEO-ALBAfJOindl.^-ThJsis a very striking plant -vvEeii in blossom, 

 both on account of i the peculiar tawny colour and the, triangular form of its 

 flowe.rs. The pseudobulbs are ovate compressed, .something like ^thosei of 



:M. vevMsta, and thp solitary leaves are 

 long and broad, and grow to the height 

 of 18 inches; the large flowers, which 

 are developed at different times of the 

 year, proceed from the side of the bulbs, 

 and ,have three linear-oblong sepals. - 

 3 inches long,, of a tawny -yellow in the 

 upper two-thirds-, creamy-white in, the. 

 lower portion, and brownish externally, 

 the three spreading out triangle- 

 wise, and the, two Iqwer ones .being 

 twisted; the petals are about half as 

 long as the sepals, .whjte at the; bage, 

 brown about the centre, and yellow 

 at the tip,., .-(vhile the. short three- 

 lobed lip is recurved, yellow with 

 paler edges, in front, and the side , 

 lobes erect, striped with purple. — New 

 Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iii. t.,106.. 



MAXILLAEIA LUTEO-ALBA. 



M. MACROBULBON.- 



MACKOBULBON. 



-See Lycastb 



M. MACROPHYLLA — See. Lycaste macrophylla. 



M. NIGRESCENS. Lindl. — A very curious and distinct species, with oval 

 compressed pseudobulbs, bearing a solitary oblong-ligulate dark green 

 coriaceous leaf, and producing its flowers singly 'On erect pfeduiicles ; " the 

 sepals and petals are spreading, port-wine colour, the lip. of the same colour, 

 but stained in addition with dull purple. It blooms at various times of the 

 year, and should be grown in the cool house. — New 0rena4a^ 



Stn. — M. rubro-fusca.^ 



M. PRAESTANS) Bchb. f.-^This beautiful species was collected; in 1884 by 

 Mr. J. C. Lehmann in Griiatemala. - The following description is taken from the 

 Oarcteners' Chronicle,' is:s.,lS85, xiii. p. 566: — "The bulb is oblong, ancipitous, , 

 with convex sides, nearly as shining as those of Odontoghssum citrosmiim,- the 

 leaf' is of parchment texture, cuneate, ligulate ; sepals ligulate, acute ; petals 

 narrow, shorter, acuminate ; all of a honey colour, yellow with brown sppts on . 

 base ; lip trifid, side laciniae short blunt triangular, mid lacinia cuneate, 

 oblong, J(,cute, very thick, brownish-yellow, with v,ery numerous small brown 

 spots, the, basilar laciniae are whitish with purple spots ; callus ligulate blunt 

 in front, margins argute.; column trigonous, yellow with many purple spots iij 

 front below, and a trilobed. orange callus at the. base," Mowers in April.^- 

 Giuxtemala. 



M. ROLLISSONII.— See Promenaba Eollisonii. 



