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SMILACEjE. 
Ophiopogon Jaburan. (Slateria Jaburan.) Flowers a delicate white. 
Native of Japan. Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges from the Leyden Botanic 
Garden in 1830. Culture.—It will thrive very well in the greenhouse, and per¬ 
haps even out of doors; the leaves are of a strong consistence*, and remain all 
the year. It may be increased by separating the roots, the soil should be loam 
and peat.— Loci. Bot. Cab. 
CANNES. 
Calathea orbiculata. Flowers 3 r ellow. Probably a native of the West 
Indies. Introduced in 1830 from the Leyden Garden. Culture.—It requires 
the constant temperature of the stove, should be potted in peat and loam, and 
may be increased by dividing the roots.— Lod. Bot. Cab. 
ORCHIDEiE. 
Maxillaria Warreana. —Wari'es Maxillaria. (Fig, 11 ) A rich and splendid 
species of this beautiful genus ; the flowers are white, blue, brown, and crimson. 
Native of Brazil, whei’e it was collected by F. Warre, Esq. who sent it together 
with many others, to Messrs. Loddiges in 1829. It grows full two feet high, and 
must be preserved in the stove, potted in vegetable earth with a little sand. It 
may be slowly increased by an occasional offset from the roots. 
Affinities. —The genus Maxillaria, was formerly included in Dendrobium, 
but after an accurate investigation of the genus, Mr. Brown divided it into se¬ 
veral genera. This took the name of Maxillaria, in consequence of the labellum 
or front segment of the flower, resembling, when seen sideways, the maxillce or 
under jaws of some insects. It belongs to the Orchis tribe or order of plants 
named Orchideae. “If the sexual apparatus of an Orchideous plant is examined, 
it will be found to consist of a fleshy body, stationed opposite the labellum, bear¬ 
ing a solitary anther at its apex, and having in front a viscid cavity, upon the 
upper edge of which there is often a slight callosity. This cavity is the stigma, 
and this callosity is the part through which the fertilizing matter of the pollen 
passes into the tissue communicating with the Ovules or young seeds. They are 
remarkable for the bizarre figure of the multiform flower, which sometimes re¬ 
presents an insect, sometimes a helmet with the visor up, and sometimes a grin¬ 
ning monkey; so various are these forms, so numerous the colours, and so com¬ 
plicated the combinations, that there is scarcely a common reptile, or insect, to 
which some of them have not been likened. They all consist of three outer pie¬ 
ces, belonging to the calyx, and three inner belonging to the corolla, and all de¬ 
partures from this number depend upon the cohesion of contiguous parts, with 
the exception of Monomeria , in which the lateral petals are entirely abortive. 
Sometimes two sepals cohere in one, sometimes the lateral petals are connate 
(joined together) with the column, which then appears with two wings. In near¬ 
ly the whole order, the odd petal called the labellum, arises from the base of the 
column, and is opposite it. Such is a small part of the singularities of Orchide¬ 
ous plants, enumerated by Mr. Lindley in his u Introduction to the Natural Sys¬ 
tem” upon those, the distinctions of their tribes and genera are naturally found¬ 
ed. Whoever studies them, must bear in mind, that their fructification is always 
reducible to three sepals, three petals, a column, consisting of three stamens grown 
firmly to one another, and to a single style and stigma; and with this in view, 
he will have no difficulty in understanding the organization of even the most 
anomalous Cape species. 
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