Refugium Botanicum. | [ November, 1872. 
TAB. 1985. 
Tribe VANDER. 
Genus MaxinuariA, Ruiz. & Pav. 
M. crasstroria, Rehb. f. in Seemann, Bonplandia, u.16! Walp. Ann. 
vi. 529! Radicibus adventitiis valde firmis brunneis terrestri- 
bus, pseudobulbis ligulatis ancipitibus valde levibus viridi- 
prasinis, 5—6 pollices longis, angulo altero basin versus 
applanato excavato, foliis stipantibus vagineformibus summo 
laminigero, pseudobulbi monophylli folio lato ligulato apice 
inequaliter exeunte, altero latere dentiformi prosiliente, altero 
imo introrsum angulato, superne obscure prasino, inferne 
pallidiore lineolis parvis transversis impressis plurimis, pedun- 
culis axillaribus paucivaginatis, ovario pedicellato longissime 
bracteam cupulatam apiculatam excedente, ovario punctulato, 
mento subnullo, perigonio carnoso coriaceo, sepalis ligulatis 
acuminatis, tepalis linearibus acutis, labello lgulato acuto 
medio utrinque extrorsum acutangulo, tumore velutino longi- 
tudinali in axi inter lacinias laterales, altero per discum laciniz 
antice, columna trigona, anthera conica subscabra.—Hetero- 
taxis crassifolia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. xi. 1826, 1028! Lodd. Bot. Cab. 
1651! Dicrypta Baueri, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 44! 152! 
Bauer, Ill. Orch. tab. v.! Flores flavi, labello aurantiaco 
maculis rubris picto. 
For a long time this has been a weed in the gardens, and yet 
we do not know much about its habitat. So much is quite 
certain, that it grows near Caracas, whence I obtained it dried 
and sketched by my excellent friend Wagener. It is certain 
that it was introduced by several collectors, also by W. Wilson 
Saunders, Esq., from Brazil; and the same gentleman has 
obtained it from Costa Rica by Mr. Carmiol, whose specimen 
I saw flowering at Hiullfield House, Reigate, in the autumn of 
1868. It is spoken of as common in the Antilles. My numerous 
Antillan specimens are, however, altogether very unsatisfactory. 
Adventitious roots very strong, terrestrial. Pseudobulbs ligulate, 
quite even, greenish bluish, ancipitous, with the one angle gene- 
rally excavated near the very base; several sheaths stand beneath 
the young pseudobulb, the uppermost one sometimes with an 
articulate lamina; the bulbs are one-leaved. Leaf broadly ligulate, 
