NEW OR NOTEWORTHY ORCHIDS 
lanceolata vel oblongo-Ianceolata. Sepalum dorsale elliptico- 
oblongum vel oblongum. Petala oblanceolato-oblonga. 
Labellum in circuitu rhombicum, prope medium obscure 
trilobatum. Discus in medio callosus. 
Plant caespitose, large, epiphytic, about 45 cm. tall. 
Roots fibrous, flexuous, glabrous. Pseudobulbs very in¬ 
conspicuous, concealed within leaf-bearing sheaths which are 
distichous, densely imbricating, conduplicate, finely punctate 
especially in their basal portion. Leaves ligulate, charta- 
ceous, cuneate-narrowed below into a conduplicate petiole; 
lamina about 18-29 cm. long, 2.15-2.9 cm. wide, acute, mid¬ 
nerve conspicuously sulcate above and carinate beneath; 
petiole indistinct, about 2-5 cm. long. Inflorescences basal, 
1-flowered. Scapes several, about 8.5-9 cm. tall up to the 
pedicellate ovary, clothed with loose scarious conduplicate 
sheaths which are shorter and imbricating at the base. 
Ovary clothed, and when immature, surpassed by a similar 
bract. Flower medium-sized, dull purplish red or brownish 
red. Lateral sepals oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
1-82 cm. long, 6.5-7.3 mm. wide near the base, acute and 
somewhat dorsally thickened at the tip, slightly oblique, 
7-nerved. Dorsal sepal similar, oblong or oblong-elliptic, 
about 1.75 cm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, acute and thickened 
at the apex, somewhat concave below, 7-nerved. Petals 
smaller, oblanceolate-oblong, 1.35 cm. long, 4.8-5.1 mm. 
wide above the middle, acute, apiculate. Labellum erect, 
parallel to the column and recurved in natural position, 
rhombic in outline, obscurely 3-lobed, the sides of the basal 
portion tubular-involute, 1.36 cm. long when expanded; 
basal part obovate, about 8.1 mm. long, about 6.4 mm. wide, 
traversed through the middle by a thickening which ter¬ 
minates in a distinct fleshy rounded callus; terminal part 
(middle lobe) ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded at the apex 
With a subapical mucro beneath, 5.5 mm. long, 4 mm. wide 
near the base. Column stout, arcuate, about 7.8 mm. long 
at the back, continued into a short foot in front. 
Maxillaria chartacifolia is allied to M. crassifolia 
Reichb. f., but it differs markedly from that plant in its thin 
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