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MAXILLARIA 



MAYTENUS 



flciiminate: scape short, vritli 1 small fl. : sepals and 

 petals oblong obtuse, yellow-tinged and spotted with 

 reddish orange; side lobes of labellum small, bharp; 

 middle lobe elongate, sub-quadrate, emarginate ; all yel- 

 low, spotted with crimson. Trinidad. B.R. 22:1848.— 

 Not valuable. 



8. clegdntula, Rolfe. The bases of the segments are 

 white, the outer lialves pale yellow, marked with choco- 

 late color. Nov. a. C. 111. 22:420. -From the illustration, 

 the sepals are ovate-lanceolate, wavy and recurved, the 

 lower pair broader; petals smaller, pointing forward, 

 concave, wavy, with reflexed tips ; Ivs. lanceolate-acute. 



9. lilteo-Alba, Lindl. Pseudobulbs long-ovate, 1-lvd., 

 2/2 in. high; Ivs. broad, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 1 ft. long: scapes in. long: sepals 3 in. long, l^ in- 

 wide, tawny yellow fading to white at the base, brown 

 on the back, the lower pair drooping; petals erect, point- 

 ing forward, one-haif as long, white to brown and yel- 

 low above; side lobes of the labellum yellow with pur- 

 ple streaks; middle lobe recurred, liniry, yellow, with 

 white margins. Colombia.— A robust species, which 

 soou fills large-sized pans, making very ornamental 

 plants. 



10. striata, Rolfe. Scapes G-8 in. long, bearing soli- 

 tary lis. 4—5 in. across the sepals: dorsal sepals ovate- 

 oblong; lateral sepals ovate-attenuate, forming a broad 

 mentum at the base, often twisted and recurved; petals 

 narrower, wavy; both sepals and petals are yellow, 

 striped with red-brown; lobes of the labellum crenate- 

 wavy, white with purple veins, the lateral ones re- 

 curved. Aug. Peru. Ct.C. TU. 20:G:n. G.M. 41:705. 



1380. Maxillaria Houlteana (X about ';i). 



11. Houtte^na, Reichb. f. Fig. ]:::80. Rhizome erect 

 or ascending, clothed with brown sheaths: pseudobulbs 

 2-2^2 in. long, linear-oblong, compressed: Ivs. solitary, 

 C in. long, linear, obtuse, keeled : scape l3.j'-2 in. long: 



fls. nearly 2 in. across; sepals ovate-lanceolate, dirty 

 yellow outside, red-purple within, with a yellow margin 

 and spotted below; petals smaller, colored like the se- 

 pals; labellum without lateral lobes, oblong-obtuse, 

 yellow with red-brown spots, and an ill-defined callus 

 on the base. April. Guatemala and Venezuela. B.M. 

 Tfiii.'J. — Fls. last about a month in the coolhousc. 



12. variabilis, Batem. (jT/. «j(f/«5^Y()Zia, H^ok.). Pseu- 

 doljulbs oval, compressed: Ivs. solitary, plane, lincar- 

 oblong, obtuse or emarginate: fis. solitary, small, deep 

 purple; sepals linear-oblong, acute, the lateral ones 

 produced at the base; petals subsimilar; labellum ob- 

 long, retuse, fleshy, membranous at the base: disk with 

 a small cnllus. Midwinter. Mex. B.M. .3014 (as M. 

 JIeuc7inuuini). — A small plant, of interest only to 

 collectors. 



13. tenuiJolia, Lindl. Rhizomes erect, bearing ovate- 

 compressed ]>seudobulbs at irregular intervals: Ivs. 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, recurved, grass-like, plane: fls. 

 small, spotted ami shaded with purple and yellow; se- 

 pals ovate-lanceolate, margins revolutc, reflexed; petals 

 ovate, acute, erect; labellum oblong, refloxed, with an 

 entire, oblong callus. Spring. Mex. B.R. 25:8. — Not 

 valuable 



M. dlchruma. Piolfo. Allied to JI. vcnnsta, but tho petals are 

 .suffused on the lower half with Ii;,dit pinkish purple, the lip 

 being margined ■with the same ("■ohir; sepals white. Grow^ 

 freely in a coolhouse, tho fls, lastiiiij for a long time. 



Heinrich Hasselering. 



MAXIMILIANA (after Maximilian Joseph, first king 

 of Bavaria, 1750-1825, not Prince Maximilian Alexnnder 

 Philipp, as said by some). Pahnacca'. Ta 1, pinnate- 

 leavud palms, spineless, witli ringed trunks : Irs. 

 with linear pinnie in groups, tho raidveins and trans- 

 verse nerves prominent ; rachis bifacial, strongly 

 compressed; petiole plano-convex. This genus is dis- 

 tinguished from Attalea as follows: petals of the male 

 fls. minute, much shorter than the G cxserted stamens: 

 fr. 1-seeded; pinna? in groups instead of equidistant. 

 From Cocos and Scheelia it differs in the at)ovc floral 

 characters and in the plano-convex instead of concavo- 

 convex petioles. Fr. yellow or brown, ovoid, with fibrous 

 or fleshy pericarp an<l bony endocarp, tho latter 3-pored 

 at the base, acuminate at the apex. Species 3, St. Kitt.s, 

 Trinidad and S. Am. For culture, see Palm.^. 



A. P'ntniT vcr/iriUrile. 



Maripa, Drude (Aifal^a Jfar'/pa, Mitrt.). Stem thick, 

 very tall: Ivs. 15 ft. lonir; segments ensiform acute, 

 divaricate, the lower 3 ft. long, 2 in. wide, gi-adually 

 diminishing upwards. Brazil. 



AA. Phnnr i)i oppo.<iife clusters. 



r^gia. Mart. (Aftah-a. ann/gdaDna). Fig. 1381. Stem 

 15-20 ft. high, ]2-lf> in. thick at the base, 3 times as 

 thick above because of the persistent petiole bases: Ivs. 

 15 ft. long; segments more slender, papery, disposed in 

 opposite clusters, the upper as broad as tho lower. 

 Brazil. G.C. 111. 1:2.32. j^r^d G. Smith. 



MAY in Enirlish poetry refers to the flowers of the 

 hawthorn, C'rafa-fius Oryacantha. 



MAY APPLE. Podoph}jUnm. See a\so Pas si flora. 



MAYBERKY, JAPANESE GOLDEN. Name proposed 

 by Luther Burliaiik for Ii'i<biis jialmatus. 



MAYFLOWER of English literature is the same as 

 the hnwthorii, Cra((rr/iis Oxijacanilia ; of New England is 

 EpHpva rcpois ; of the more western states, Uepafica. 



MAY-WEED. Aviheutis C<>Uihi. 



MAYTENUS (from a Chilean name). CeJasfrdceiT. 

 A genus of about 50 species of trees and shrubs mostly 

 from South America, some from tropical America. Bo- 

 tnnically they arc near our common bittersweet, CcJas- 

 tnts sea 11(1 ciis. Aside from habit, Maytenus diiVers from 

 Celastrus in having the ovary confluent with tho disk 

 instead of free, and the cells are mostly 1-ovuled instead 



