328 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NovEMBER, 19¢3. 
MAXILLARIA PULLA. 
THE above interesting rarity has at last appeared in cultivation, a 
Maxillaria received some time ago from Popayan having flowered in the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, and proved identical with the dried 
specimens collected by Schlim over half a century ago. The species was 
described in 1854 (Lind. & Rchb. f. in Bonplandia, ii, p. 280), from specimens 
collected at Aspasica, in the province of Ocana, at 5,000 feet elevation, in 
1850. The flowers were described as yellowish rose, rayed with red. Soon 
afterwards Wagener met with it at San Pedro, at about the same altitude. 
It is a very distinct little plant, having small globose slightly compressep 
pseudobulbs, about half an inch long, each having a single lanceolate 
petiolate leaf, from five to nine inches long; and the slender scapes, some 
two to four inches long, are borne from the axils of imbricating sheaths at 
the base of the pseudobulbs. The living flower may be described as having 
the ground colour straw-yellow, with five light red-brown stripes on the 
sepals and petals, and eleven much darker ones. on the nearly entire lip. 
The sepals measure about nine lines long. It is quite a small plant, and 
the striped flowers give it a very distinct appearance. 
R. A. ROLFE. 
‘A PoRTRAIT FLOWER.—Suspended from the roof in one of the Orchid 
houses at the Royal Gardens, Kew, a curious plant is to be seen in flower. 
The flowers are large, measuring six inches from tip to tip, but it is the lip 
which is specially noticeable and remarkable. On this lip by a series of 
furrows and marks it is that a resemblance to the well-known face of Punch 
is noticeable, the eyes, nose, cheek furrows and chin being so clearly 
depicted that they are immediately recognised by all beholders.’ The 
above is the story given by a daily contemporary concerning an Orchid 
which seems to have been Coryanthes macrantha, which flowered lately.” 
—Gard. World, Oct. £7, D. B80." It appears that a number of people visited 
the house to see the “ Punch Orchid,” whose identity, by the way, was not 
revealed in the original paragraph. Those who know the remarkable 
bucket-shaped lip of this Orchid may wonder where the resemblance to 
“Punch” comes in, but it appears that it resides, not in the lip, but in the 
unopened bud. Owing to some unexplained cause the bud damped off just 
as it reached its full development, and consequently never opened, and in 
this stage it remained on the plant for several days. The confusion of an 
unopened bud with the lip is somewhat amusing, but we shall look out for 
“ Punch ” in future, as it is said that the resemblance is sufficiently obvious 
when once pointed out. 
