Refugium Botanicum.| | December, 1872¢ 
TAB. 1382, 
Tribe VANDEX. 
Genus Maxinuaria, R. Pav. 
M.xnoneata, Lindl. Paxton, I'l. Gard. ii. p. 69 ¢. Xyl. 264! Dense 
ceespitosa, radicibus terrestribus densis descendentibus validis 
levibus, pseudobulbis transsectione teretibus, inferne vaginis 
arctis castaneis nunc fusco pretextis vestitis, superne lon- 
gissime nudis viridibus lucidis leyibus diphyllis, foliis a 
cuneata petiolari basi oblongo-acuminatis, crassius membrana- 
cels, hervis quinisinfra prominulis, superne nitidis, inferne, 
pallidioribus, pedunculo porrecto, vaginis partis inferioris 
amplis cucullatis acutis, racemo plurifloro, bracteis lneari- 
lanceis acuminatis, inferioribus ovaria pedicellata equantibus, 
ovarus punctulatis, mento valde angulato, sepalo superiori 
ligulato-acuminato, sepalis lateralibus latioribus, subdimidiatis, 
tepalis ligulatis acuminatis subbrevioribus, labello valde car- 
noso cuneato oblongo-ligulato medio utrinque obtusangulo, 
lobo antico subcochleato, margine valde crasso, carinulis ternis 
valde brevibus inter lacinias laterales, seriebus papularum 
minutarum post illas, lobo antice cristulis papulosis supra et 
infra nervos verrucoso, rugoso utroque latere, columna trigona, 
anthera obtuse conica, caudicula brevi, sed bene evoluta.— 
Mawillaria elongata, Lindl., Walp. Ann. vi. 508! Behb. f., Beitr. 
Orch. Centr. Am. 80! Mazillaria roseans, 4d. Rich. Hort. Flores 
albo-straminei, demum rosel. Labellum sordide violaceum 
seu flavum, carinulis obscure brunneis. 
It appears that the plant came first to the Jardin de l'Ecole de 
Médicine, at Paris, of which M. Riviére is Curator. I obtained 
it from there as early as 1852, through my late friend Emile 
Desvaux. Achille Richard gave a new name to nearly every spe- 
cies (as in the Galeottian Orchidology). ‘The species was said to 
come from Guatemala, which is very probable. During the same 
time J. de Warscewicz, most successful in travelling and most un- 
successful in sending, had found the same plant in the Cordillera 
de Chiriqui, at an elevation of 7000 feet. It flowered in England, 
and I have three dried spikes and a sketch from him. Finally, 
I obtained from Costa Rica two good specimens from Mr. Endres. 
The plant came from Paris in Consul Schiller’s collection, and 
