?2 2 ORCHIDS 



Maxillaria. 

 water ; but in the resting season, less water should be 

 given. They may be grown in the same house as Odonto- 

 alossuni crispitm^ but in winter the temperature should not 

 be allowed to fall below Sodeg. If kept in a •\\'arm house, 

 the leaves soon become badly spotted — a sure indication 

 that the temperature is too high. The air about the plants 

 should be fresh, and the light good, although they do not 

 like bright sunshine. 



The species described here are sufficiently ornamental to 

 find a ]Dlace in every collection, however limited the space 

 at command. The majoritj' of them blossom profusely, 

 large quantities of flowers being produced on even moderate- 

 sized plants. 



M. atropurpurea (Liiidl.). — A synonym of Bifrenaria airo- 

 purpiirea. 



M. Brocklehurstiana {LiiiJi.). — A synonym of Houlkiia 

 B>-OLkleh urstia n a . 



M. grandiflora (Lijidl. ). — A handsome-flowered, large-lea\ed 

 plant, deliciously fragrant. It has ovate compressed pseudo-bulbs, 

 which are one-leaved. Leaves from gin. to i2in. long, broadly 

 strap-shaped, dark green, recurved. The scape is erect, 6in. long, 

 one-flowered. The flowers are 4in. across, milk-white ; sepals 

 ovate, spreading; petals shorter; lip three-lobed, pouched, similar 

 to that of M. veinista, but without the purple on the front lobe, 

 which is yellow and powdered. The plant blossoms in autumn 

 and winter, and lasts a long time in flower. Peru about 1850. 

 (F. M., ser. if, t. 322.) 



M. Marrisoniae {LindL). — A synonym of Bifrenaria 

 Harriso)ii(c. 



M. luteo-alba {LindL). — An easily cultivated, very robust, 

 and free-flowering species. Pseudo-bulbs 2ilfin. long, ovate, 

 compressed, onedeaved. Leaves broad, blunt-pointed, dark 

 green, i{,ft. long, the base narrowed and stalkdike. The 

 scapes sprmg from the base of the pseudo-bulbs, and are 

 6ui. long, clothed with sheathing bracts, one-flowered ; each 

 flower is 6in. across ; the sepals are 3in. long, brown at the 

 back, nearly ^in. wide, tawny-yellow except at the base, which 

 is creamy-white, the upper one erect, the lower ones drooping 

 and suggestive of the ears of a lop rabbit ; the petals are 

 erect, pointed forwards, half as long as the' sepals, white at 

 the base, then brown, yellow above ; the lip is threedobed, the 

 side lobes being erect, yellow, with purple stripes, the middle 

 lobe recurved, hairy, yellow, with white margins. This plant is 



