Refugium Botanicum.] [ October, 1872, 
TAB, 104, 
Tribe VANDEm. 
Genus Maxrmiaria (R. Pav.), Lindl. 
M. Ceputa, Rehb. f. in Seemann, Bonplandia, iii. 216. Brevissime 
caulescens, rhizomate valido ascendente, vaginis amplis dis- 
tichis triangulis castaneis numerosis, pseudobulbos distantes 
efferente, pseudobulbis subteretibus nune pyriformibus hine 
sulcatis, vulgo pagina superiori ubi rhizomati appressis foveato- 
impressis monophyllis seu diphyllis, foliis carnosis semitereti- 
bus, superne foveato-impressis obtuse acutis, ima basi compli- 
catis, pedunculis a vaginis scariosis triangulis dense distichis 
vaginatis, bractea ampliori ovarium pedicellatum excedente, 
mento obtusangulo mediocri, sepalis lanceolato-triangulis 
acutis, tepalis ligulatis obtuse acutis, apice reflexis subbre- 
vioribus, labello cuneato oblongo antice trilobulo, lobis late- 
ralibus subsemirhombeis, nunc denticulatis, lobo mediano 
porrecto semioblongo, hine antice retuso seu emarginato, 
columna apice bene clavata, anthera mitrata, polliniis per 
paria incumbentibus in caudicula lata juxta glandulam trans- 
versam dilatata.—Mavillaria madida, Lindl. Bot. Req. xxiv. 
1888, Misc. 74. MM. crassifolia, Herb. (not Lchb. fil.) MSS. in 
herb. Lindl, 
I begin with an explanation why I prefer my name of later 
date to the older one of Dr. Lindley. His plant was described 
“folis subplicatis.” Now a plant with plaited leaves would have 
such leaves as an Anguloa, a Lycaste, or a Catasetum. Dy. Lindley 
compared it, indeed, to Maaillaria acicularis, but the matter 
became only more unintelligible in this way. When I proposed 
the name for the plant, I had not the least idea of its being 
identical with MM. madida, nor could I guess it. 
The plant itself is a great curiosity. The very dark pseudo- 
bulbs and leaves are blackish green, and have nothing of the 
liveliness of a plant. They present the appearance of being made 
from zine and painted with mineral colours. The flowers are 
sometimes dark brownish, sometimes more yellowish, the tips of 
the sepals, tepals, and lip, as well as the callus of the lip, often, 
even generally, of a much darker colour. ‘There occur also 
