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M. CITRINUM.— See M. paudintjm; usicolor. 



M. COLOSSUS, Rclib. f. — A very efEective species of large growth, the 

 stems sub-terete, tapering upwards, sometimes a foot long, with elliptic 

 ovate plaited leaves, and a stout radical scape a foot long, bearing a raceme 

 a foot long of large spreading flowers, 5 to 6 inches across, with narrow 

 lanceolate acuminate sepals and petals, of which the lower part is pink with 

 darker pink veins, and the upper half yellow; the lip is bright yellow 

 dotted with pink at the base, much incurved, with the edges revolute, 

 meeting at the back, and the green arching column is twisted to one 

 side as usual. It is a most singular and wonderful plant. — Central America, 

 elevation 7,000 feet. 



¥ia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5840. 



Syn. — 31. macrantlimn ; M. calanthuni . 



M. GREENIL— See M. tjncia. 



Nl. IGNEUM, Lindl. — Avery old and handsome species with fusiform pseudo- 

 bulbs, and long ovate lanceolate deep green leaves, producing fleshy flowers, 

 with chocolate-brown sepals and petals, and a rich orange-coloured lip forming 

 a sort of hood. — Central America. 



Fig. — Paxton, Fl. Gard., iii. t. 95; Lorn. Jard. FL, iv. t. 330. 



M. IGNEUM MACULATUM, EoZ/e.— The flowers of this variety leave those 

 of the type far behind as regards beauty of form and colouring. The sepals 

 and petals are yellowish-brown, covered with dark purple-brown regular spots ; 

 the lip is red spotted somewhat irregularly with dark brown ; column white 

 covered with small purple spots. — Peru. 



Fig. — Llndeiiia, viii. t. 364. 



M. LAWRENCEANUM, Bolfe. — A handsome species, dedicated to Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart. The pseudobulbs are pyriform, leaves ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate ; racemes many -flowered ; sepals and petals lanceolate-acute, dark 

 orange-yellow, striped longitudinally with dark brown on the interior surface, 

 on the exterior surface the lines are represented by dots only; lip yellow, 

 covered by purple-brown spots; column white spotted with purple. — U.S.of. 

 Colombia. 



Fig. — Llndenia, vi. t. 273. 



M. LUXATUM, Lindl. — A very handsome species, and also a very singular 

 one, in which the distortion of the flower peculiar to the genus seems carried to 

 its extreme limit, the whole flower — not only the lip and column, which are the 

 parts usually affected — appearing as if all its members had been dislocated. 

 Notwithstanding this it is a plant of much beauty. The stems are short, terete, 

 and tapered upwards, the plicate lanceolate leaves 3 feet long, and the flowers 

 on radical scapes in oblong racemes much shorter than the leaves, very 

 fragrant, 3 inches or more in diameter, lemon-yellow, fleshy, and rather 

 globular, but so distorted that the parts are not easily recognised, excepting 



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