with a blunt unequal apex, one side extended into a sharp angle, 
the other inferior, even, dark leek-green on the upper side, more 
pallid beneath, with many small impressed transverse lines on the 
upper side. Common flower-stalk axillary, with a few wide lax 
nearly blunt sheaths and an angular very short apiculated bract 
beneath the elongated stalked scabrous ovary. Sepals ligulate- 
acuminate or acute. Tepals linear-acute. Lip ligulate-acute, with 
a tooth-like angle on each side and a velvet oblong callus, narrower 
at the base between the lateral lobes, and one long callosity on 
the disk of the anterior lobe. Colwmn trigonous. Anther conical, 
subscabrous; the whole of the perigone fleshy leathery; scarcely 
any chin. Flowers pale yellow in our stoves, orange near Caracas, 
according to my friend Wagener’s sketch, always with a greenish 
hue outside the sepals. Lip orange-coloured, the tumours 
sulphur-coloured, many or few purplish or cinnabar spots and 
dots scattered over its surface. 
There is a certain Mazillaria very near this, which I described 
ten years since, though, from my remembrance, I never published 
it. I adda short diagnosis :— 
Maxinuaria superriua. Foliis loratis lineari-ligulatis apice in- 
equalibus, pedunculo vaginato, bractea cupulari brevissima, 
mento minuto, sepalis ligulatis acutis, tepalis angustioribus 
brevioribus, labello ligulato acuto versus medium utrinque 
angulato, tumore velutino uno posteriore, uno anteriore. 
The lip is violet, with yellowish tumors. The tepals have 
usually a violet streak inside. 
M. discolor, Lindl., has the broadest, M. superflua the narrowest 
leaves. Garden plant from Demerara. 
Materials :—Old and new sketches; description from the living 
plant in Saundersian garden, 1869, and at Hamburgh; many 
specimens. 
Tab. 185.—The plant. 1, flower, expanded, front view +; 
2, column and bent lip +; 8, flower, side view, sepals and tepals 
cut +; 4, 5, pollinaria +. 
A leafy Maaillaria, with rather inconspicuous yellow flowers. 
It is a plant very free to grow, and placed in a temperate house 
it will be sure to do well.—W. W. 8S. 
