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with brown; the petals are white, spotted with brown ; the lip 
is white and yellow and orange; the flower-stem leaves at its 
apex only one flower, which is very large. This species always 
loses its leaves before it flowers. This is also a free flowing 
plant—really, a lovely object when it flowers firm. This re¬ 
quires a good rest, as most of the species does. A native of 
Mexico, introduced in 1828. 
Maxillaria Steelia. This is a most singular species and very 
beautiful. This species has no pseudo-bulbs, but only rhizomas, 
with long round leaves resembling whipcord, which is of a dark- 
green colour. The flowers come out from the base of the rhizoma 
two or three together, which are very large, of a pale yellow, 
beautifully spotted with brownish purple. This is really a lovely 
plant ; the flower stems are very short; the flowers are almost 
sitting close to the roots. The whole plant looks like a bundle 
of whipcord more than anything else that I can compare it to. 
This species is a native of Demerara, introduced in 1834. This 
does best on a log of wood with very little moss : requires plenty 
of heat and moisture. 
Maxillaria Macrophylla. Large leaved. This is a very fine 
species with large whitish flowers, which are really beautiful; 
the sepals are of a greenish white, while the petals are white with 
purple stripes; the lip is beautifully spotted, the leaves are large, 
ovate-pointed, and strongly veined, of a dark green colour, and 
somewhat round at the edges; the pseudo-bulbs are very large, 
somewhatovate, tapering towards the apex; the flower stem comes 
from the base of the pseudo-bulb. This also flowers at the begin¬ 
ning of the growing season. The flowers ,are very numerous. 
This is a native of Mexico, introduced in 1837. 
"Maxillaria Warreana. This is a noble species. The spikes 
of flowers are large and handsome, bearing a number of flowers 
on each spike; the sepals are of a greenish straw colour, the 
petals are white, the lip is of a brownish purple, the flowers are 
large and round, the leaves are broadly ovate-pointed, of a light 
green colour, the leaves stand on long footstalks ; the pseudo¬ 
bulb is long, ovate, narrowed very much towards the apex, of a 
dark-green. This species comes very near the genus Pereste- 
ria, both in the form of the flower and the habit of the plant. 
This is a native of Brazil, introduced in 1833. 
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