ancipitous-sulcate, the younger ones covered with scariose 
triangular complicate sheaths, soon dissolving in fibres, very 
green when young; all the bulbs monophyllous. Leaf with a 
long complicate petiolar narrow base, and an oblong-ligulate very 
acute very shining glossy blade, pallid and opaque on the under 
side; the petiolar part varying in length; I have, however, never 
seen it so short as represented by the artist; in my Wagenerian 
specimen it is nearly a span long, and the late Achille Richard 
would never have given his name of “‘petiolaris” if he had seen 
fresh specimens, as are here represented. Common flower-stalk 
short, covered with scariose triangular acute sheaths. Bract like 
the upper one, larger, covering the base of the upper sepal. Sepals 
oblong-ligulate, apiculate. Tepals a little shorter and broader. 
Lip even shorter than or equal to the tepals, broadly ligulate, 
slightly emarginate at the blunt end, obtuse-angled on both the 
middle sides, then nearly trilobed. A small horse-shoe-like keel 
behind the out-springing lateral angles, now going out into side- 
lines, to make a sort of callus; I have, however, never seen such 
a clear long callus as has been represented by the artist. The 
anterior disk of lip covered with rounded dark warts. Column 
clavate; border of androclinium elevated. Anther mitrate, without 
papille. Glandule horse-shoe shaped. ‘The flowers have pur- 
plish ovaries, yellowish brown sepals, with a cinnamon hue; 
tepals and lip dirty purplish, with very dark warts on the 
anterior disk of the same. 
Materials :—Observation of the living plant in the Saundersian 
collection, and that at Luxemburg, near Paris, 1867; observation 
of fresh flowers ; thirteen herbarium specimens. 
Tab. 184.—1, flower, front view +; 2, flower, side view +-; 8, the 
same, sepals cut + ; 4, the same, sepals and tepals cut + ; 5, lip + ; 
6, column +; 7, 8, pollinaria +. 
Treated as Maxillaria rufescens, Tab. 188, this plant does well 
and flowers freely. My plants came from Brazil; some from the 
vicinity of Bahia, collected by Mr. E. Reed. It is a curious 
species, more appreciated by the botanist than the horticulturist. 
—W. W.S. 
