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PLATES AND DESCRIPTIONS BY

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PREFACE.

THE increasing interest taken in the genus Masdevallia, and the large number of species now in cultiva-

tion, seemed to form a sufficient reason for publishing the present Monograph, which will be made
as complete and exhaustive as the numerous difficulties attendant upon such an undertaking will allow.
One of the greatest of these difficulties arises from the impossibility of referring to the late Professor
Reichenbach’s immense collections of dried specimens, drawings, and unpublished descriptions, now sealed
up, by the eccentric conditions of his Will, in the Vienna Museum for a period of 25 years from the date
of his death, 1889, In thus rendering his collections inaccessible, Professor Reichenbach has precluded
any comparison with many types of the genus Masdevallia, of which the greater number of species were

first named and described by him.

The drawings contained in the earlier Parts of this work will be prepared from Plants grown at
Newbattle Abbey ; those in subsequent Parts will be taken from specimens liberally contributed by many
persons interested in the genus. Besides a hand-coloured lithograph (natural size) of each species in
cultivation, a vignette engraving from a photograph will be given, except in those cases where it is found
impossible to obtain a photograph of the perfect plant. Drawings also of numerous species entirely
unknown in this country, or known hitherto only as dried specimens, are generously promised by Consul
F.C. Lehmann, whose exceptional advantages as a skilled botanist collecting for many years in those
regions of Central and South America where alone Masdevallias are to be found, place him at the head
of the authorities upon the genus. His drawings will be published in later Parts of the work, with names
and descriptions supplied by him, and with a chapter on the geographical distribution of the genus,
accompanied by a map. For each species which he has himself collected, he contributes a note stating

the temperature and elevation of the locality in which he has found the plant.

The Plates issued in each Part will be arranged—tor temporary conyvenience—in alphabetical
order, and at the end of the work a synopsis will be given, indicating the sections into which the genus is

divisible, and the order in which the entire book should be bound.

Much pleasure is felt in thanking numerous friends for the help which they have given towards the
progress of the work, especially those gentlemen on the Botanical Staff of the British Museum of Natural
History, whose kind and willing aid has greatly lightened the task of preparing the text. Thanks are
also due to Mr. F. W. Moore, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, for sending many rare
specimens, which have proved of invaluable assistance in the completion of the Plates. Sir Trevor
Lawrence, Bart., M.P., Mr. Sypyey Courtautp, Mr. Harry Veitcu, and Mr. James O'Brien have also

been most generous in supplying useful specimens.

It may be of interest to friends of the late Professor Reichenbach to know that some of the first
Plates prepared for this work were submitted to him shortly before his death, and that they met with his
cordial approbation. By his advice a few slight additions were made in the dissections, as for instance,

the apex and section of each leaf and the apex of the column.

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N writing the history of the Genus Masdevallia, there is little to be added to the
information already published. A few new species have been recently discovered
and introduced to horticulture, but the keen interest in them which prevailed a few
years ago, especially during the lifetime of Professor Reichenbach, has almost died out,
and we no longer hear of fabulous prices paid for a fragment of a plant, consisting,
perhaps, of only two or three leaves. This interest, which almost amounted to a mania,
was, no doubt, partly caused by Reichenbach’s glowing and grotesque descriptions of
the new species brought to his notice, for, since his death, it is remarkable that pur-
chasers have been less eager to buy, and dealers consequently less enterprising in
collecting, while the reduction of prices has brought even rare species within the means
of almost every horticulturist.

The first Masderallia known to science was M. uniflora, which was discovered by
the Spanish botanists, Ruiz and Payon, in the Andes of Peru, during their residence
in that country from 1777 to 1794, for the purpose of exploring the Cinchona forests in
the interests of the Spanish Government. They founded upon it a new Genus in
honour of their fellow-countryman Josepho Masdevall, a physician at the Court of
Spain. JL, uniflora has never since been seen in its native habitat by any botanist, and
only the most persistent enquiry has enabled me to collect the details of its history
given in this work, with the first coloured drawing of the plant ever made. No other
examples of the new Genus were made known until 1809, when J. infracta was dis-
covered in Brazil by Descourtilz, a French botanist and traveller, and this species, of
which living plants were imported in 1828, was the first to flower in cultivation. In
1833 A. Caudata was discovered, and during the next twelve or fourteen years several
other species, and from that time onwards their number has steadily increased, until, at
the present time, between eighty and ninety are cultivated, and many others are known
as Herbarium specimens or by description only.

The geographical distribution of the Genus extends from Mexico, in about 20° N.
lat., south-eastwards through the central Cordillera of Costa Rica, and the isthmus of
Panama, then running north-eastwards as far as the coast ranges of Venezuela, and
southwards towards its centre in the Andes of Colombia. The southern limit on the
western side of the continent is reached in the Peruvian Mountains at 16° or 17° S. lat.,
and on the eastern side in the Organ Mountains of Brazil, at 23° S. lat., where nine or
ten species have been discovered. One is recorded from Mount Roraima, two or three
{rom the hills of French and Dutch Guiana, and one only from the low alluvial region
in the interior of the continent, the habitat of which is indicated on the annexed map
by Senhor Rodriguez, hitherto the only discoverer of a Masdevallia so far from the sea-
coast. The principal part of the area of geographical distribution—marked in yellow
on the map—was indicated by Consul Lehmann himself, and may therefore be relied on
as accurate.

Masdevallias have a very remarkable vertical range, extending almost from the
level of the sea, where Consul Lehmann has found them upon the trunks and roots of
trees growing close to the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and from 195 feet in the marshy
inland forests of Brazil, the habitat of JZ. Yauaperyensis, to 12,000 feet in the mountains
of Peru and Colombia, where the brilliantly-coloured species of the Section Coccinee
abound, and 14,500 feet in the Andes of Popayan, the home of JZ. Racemosa.

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In the more elevated regions in which Masdevallias are found, above the limit of
forest-trees and almost at the snow-line, the climate is characterised by hot sunshine
and high-winds during the day, with thick fogs and a low temperature, often below the
freezing point, at night, while violent storms of rain and hail are frequent. The species
found in these localities are terrestrial, growing in crevices of volcanic rocks and in the
shade of the low shrubs which cover the hill-sides. At a lower elevation, among the
dense forests of Colombia and Ecuador, Masdevallias are very numerous, and are mostly
epiphytal plants, growing on the trunks and branches of trees among thick mosses, or
in hollows where vegetable soi] has accumulated. The climate of the forest region is
excessively damp and misty; drenching rains occur daily and cause dense fogs, which
envelope the hills during the morning hours, but the temperature is warmer and more
uniform than that of the higher mountains, without extremes of heat and cold, and
ranging from about 48° to 77° Fahrenheit. The highest temperature hitherto recorded
for any Masdevallia is 78° to 84° Fahrenheit in the low damp forests of the interior of
Brazil, where M. Yauaperyensis is found.

Although the cultivation and climatic conditions of Masdevallias are now fairly
well understood, it is hoped that the particulars as to altitude, temperature, and climate,
given by Consul Lehmann in his notes on most of the species collected by him, will be
of use to those who wish to give their plants the treatment suited to their requirements,
so far as this can be done by artificial means. In the case of many of the recently
imported species there is a deplorable want of information upon these important points,
a contrast to the careful field-notes made by botanists such as Linden, Roezl, etc. The
Orchid-collectors of the present day are mostly sent out by dealers, who, fearful lest
any rival should share their profits, conceal even the name of the habitat of new species,
and allow their emissaries to send home plants without any particulars as to the elevation
and climatic conditions of the localities in which their discoveries were made.

The variation of many Masdevallias is considerable, especially in the case of JW.
Chimera, a polymorphic plant upon which alone an entire monograph might be written.
Seven or eight of its varieties were named by Professor Reichenbach as distinct species,
but are now, owing to the large number of intermediate forms since introduced, acknow-
ledged in their true position. The comparatively wide geographical range of this
species—extending over 400 miles in the mountains of Colombia—and the consequent
differences of soil, situation, and climate, to which it must be exposed, cannot be
assigned as the reason for its extreme variability, for Consul Lehmann has found several
varieties growing together in the same habitat, and all therefore sharing in similar
climatic conditions. Varieties of AZ. coccinea and AZ. militaris are also to be found
growing together in thousands in one locality, covering the hill-sides with brilliant and
divers colours.

So little is known of the methods of fertilisation of Afasdevallia flowers in a wild
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structural peculiarities to be observed in the different species. Only the closest
attention, night and day, in the natural habitat of the plants, could elucidate this
obscure subject, and although Consul Lehmaun has attempted to pursue the matter
during his long residence in Cevtral and South America, and probably knows more
about it than any other botanist, the record of his investigations has becn so long
delayed that it will not be available for the present work. The mossy hairs on the stem
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a protection against the incursions of crawling insects, while the sensitive and mobile
lip, closed at night and open during the day, shows that the insect necessary for the
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flower, would easily remove the pollinia and would then transport them to the flowers
of another plant. In other species the texture of the whole flower, or of some especial
part, is juiey and succulent, and possibly acts as an allurement to insects. The internal
organs of the flowers of the Coccinew Section are extremely small, scarcely visible within
the deep narrow sepal-tube, but the broadly-extended sepals are brilliantly coloured for
the attraction of insects, which, after alighting upon them would perhaps discover the
curious viseid substance to be found in the angle of the petals, and in attempting to
reach this, or in struggling to escape from the narrow trap into which they had forced
their wav, must inevitably carry away the pollinia, repeating the same manceuvres 1n
the flowers of other plants. Many more suggestions might be made as to the manner
in which the important process of fertilisation is effected, but in the present lack of
local observations upon the subject, no information can be given. In a wild state,
Masdevallias appear to ripen seed freely, for a great many of the dried specimens which
L have examined showed w ell-developed seed-capsules. In cultivation the flowers are
easily amenable to hybridisation, but the hybrids raised by artificial means are too
numerous to be figured in this work, and only a few are mentioned. Those who take an
interest in them will find their merits fully set forth in the dealers’ catalogues of the day.

The plants from which my drawings were made were not chosen as fine horticul-
tural specimens, but may be considered, on the whole, to be of fair average size and
colour. I have endeavoured to make each Plate as complete as possible, giving, in all
except four, a drawing of buds more or less advanced in growth, as well as several
different views of the perfect flower. In some of the Plates the colouring is not quite
so clear and bright as I could have wished. Only a drawing direct from the flowers
could give the delicate effects to be seen in nature, the grey shading of the lithograph
unavoidably detracting from the brilliancy of the colours laid over it. It is no doubt
advantageous in botanical work or in any similar drawing demanding great exactness,
that the person who makes the original drawing from nature should also lithograph the
Plates and indicate the colours to be used by the colourist, for, by this means, the work
passes through fewer hands and is more likely to turn out accurate. I have therefore
pursued this method throughout the present work, and have, besides, touched up the
colouring of every Plate sent out, numbering nearly 9,000. It may be noticed that the
dissections of internal parts of the fiowers given in my drawings are uniform, a system
intended to facilitate the comparison of the structure of one species with that of another
—often rendered impossible by the want of uniformity in botanical Plates. The photo-
graphs from which the woodcuts were made were taken by different persons, and are,
therefore, not on one scale, or meant for comparison with each other, but with the
natural size of the plant as represented in the corresponding Plate. The woodcuts
were executed by Messrs. W. and J. R. Cheshire, of 23, Holborn Viaduct, and I would
specially draw attention to those of AZ. Chimera rar. Backhousiana and M. Houtteana,
which show wonderfully delicate and careful work. It has proved impossible to give a
woodcut of every species in cultivation, as was at first proposed. Some of the plants
are very rare, and exist in such small pieces only, that the entire plant can be fully
represented in the coloured Plate. Of the eighty cultivated species and varieties
figured, sixty-three are from the Marquess of Lothian’s collection of Orchids at New-
battle Abbey, and one of these, JZ. fragrans, is a new species. Another new species,
M. fractifiera, is from a drawing by Cousul Lehmann and has not yet been imported
alive. We also publish drawings of six plants hitherto known by name only, three of
them from Brazil, discovered, drawn and deseribed by Senlor Rodriguez, Director of
the Botanic Gardens, at Rio de Janeiro; one, a drawing of MM. uniflora, sent from
Madrid by Dr. Miguel Colmeiro; and two drawn by Consul Lehmann, of species not yet
Known in cultivation, although described years ago by Professor Reichenbach.

Many
of the remainder of the plants have never before been drawn.

Although the plan of dividing the Genus into Sections was originated by Professor

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Tar Genus MaspevaLiia; ITs History, GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION, ETC.

group in which he thought it should be included, and never attempted to arrange the
entire series of groups in any systematic order. This can, perhaps, hardly be done
until a wider knowledge of the Genus is attained, and I have, therefore, for convenience,
numbered the Sections and placed them and the species contained in them in alpha-
betical order. The index refers to the number and name of the Section in which each
species will be found. In the case of those plants of which it is impossible, from the
original description, to ascertain the affinities, a list is given on a separate page, and
they are referred to in the index under “Section indeterminate.” The names of those
species now excluded from the Genus A/asdevallia are also mentioned on a separate
page, and are, in the index, followed by the name of the Genus in which they have been
placed. Much doubt and uncertainty about these and other species will be set at rest
only when Professor Reichenbach’s vast collections of dried plants, drawings aud notes,
come to light in the Vienna Museum, where, according to the extraordinary conditions
of his will, they must remain untouched for 25 years after the date of his death, which
took place in 1889. Until this period has elapsed, therefore, all arrangements of
Sections, and determinations of species or varieties, must be made with reserve and
regarded as temporary and uncertain.

Many interesting species will be added to the Genus when Consul Lehmann
publishes his large series of drawings, made in the natural habitat of the plants. It was
originally proposed that more of his drawings should be included in the’ present work,
but many of those lent to me by him for that purpose, although in themselves
excellent, were sent without dissections, names, notes, or descriptions, and were, there-
fore, useless for publication. It is only possible to indicate upon the map a very few
of the places mentioned in his notes, many of them being small remote towns and villages,
or minor mountain-peaks and valleys in the vast Cordilleras of the Andes.

To the numerous friends whose assistance has enabled me to accomplish this work, I
must again express sincere and grateful thanks, and in addition to those mentioned in
the preface I wish to thank the members of the Staff of the Royal Herbarium at Kew,
who have given me their help, as well as Mr. F. Sander and Mr. R. J. Measures, who
have supplied me with information and specimens. For the loan of an excellent collec-
tion of dried plants, as well as for living specimens, I am indebted to Monsieur Eugene
Autran, of the Boissier Herbarium at Chambésy, Geneva. In conclusion, J may remark
that in carrying out the work of this book, I have spared no pains, and have done my
best in every way to obtain accurate information and drawings, although, being neither
a trained artist nor botanist, I have felt myself hardly qualified for the undertaking.

BELTon,
Auoust, 1896.

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SECTION I.

AMANDZ Rchb. f.

MAILIS Section contains five species in cultivation, and several others known only as

dried specimens. It was founded by Reichenbach upon MW. Amanda, a plant
discovered by Warscewicz in 1853, near Ocaha, and more recently met with by other
collectors in different parts of Colombia and Antioquia. I can hear of no living
specimen of this plant. All the species in the Section 4Amand@ are much alike in out-
ward appearance, as well as in internal structure. The stems of all produce several
small flowers, the wings or ridges upon the ovary are serrated, and the petals are
toothed upon both margins.

5 species figured :
Masdevallia abbreviata Rehb. f.
caloptera Rehb. f. (=. biflora Regel)
melanopus Rehb. f.
pachyura Rehb. f.
polvsticta Rehb. f.

Not in cultivation :

Me Amanda Rehb. f. et Wavec. Bonplandia IT, (1854), p. 115.
auachete Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 17.
calopterocarpa Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 560.
Gustavi Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. I, p. 461.
Lehman Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1877 PU p38:
tridens Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 13.

rauthodactyla Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1877, pt. I, p. 552

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MASpEVALLIA ABBREVIATA Rebb. f. Gard. Chron. 1878, pt. II., p. 106 ; 1881, pt. IL., p. 236 ; Bot. Mag.
t. G258 (1876) as M. polysticta Rehb. f. (AM. melanopus Rehb. f. fide Hooker, Bot. Mag. t. 6368
(1878) under Af. polysticta) ; Orchidophile (Godefroy ) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 83.

Leaf 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a
slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 6 or 7 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole,
green, many-flowered ; flowering bracts about 4 inch Jong, sheathing the pedicel and the base of the ovary,
brownish.

Ovary 4 inch long, triangular, with six crenate wings, pale green.

Sepals all cohering for about } inch, forming a rounded tube, gibbous below, free portions ovate-
triangular for about 34; inch, 3-nerved, margins serrate, white, more or less spotted with pinkish-crimson,
and terminating in slender terete tails, bright yellow tipped with orange.

Petals a little more than 3 inch long, linear at the base, obcordate, apiculate, margins sharply serrated,
with a fleshy angled keel on the anterior margin, pure white. *

Lip longer than the petals, grooved at the base and united to the curved foot of the column by a
flexible hinge, lateral lobes oblong, narrowing towards the central lobe, with two longitudinal keels, apex
trilobed, pale yellow.

Column a little shorter than the petals, green, with crimson apex and wings and a few spots, foot
white with crimson spots, apex sharply denticulate.

LTHOUGH Professor Reichenbach’s first description of Mf. abbreviata was not

published until 1878, the plant was probably known and cultivated in Europe for
some years previously, in perhaps more than one variety, and under the name of
M. melanopus. No record of its habitat was given by Bruchmiiller or Roezl, but there
seems no doubt that one of these collectors discovered it in North Peru. Reichenbach
suggests that it is perhaps a hybrid between Jf. polysticta and M. melanopua, and states
also that there is “a nearly unspotted variety.” It appears, however, to be a true
species, and probably its extreme variability helps to account for the confusion that
exists between it and Af. melanopus, although it never approaches the very rare and
distinct form of that species figured in the present work.

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was afterwards supposed (Bot. Mag. t. 6368, 1878) by Sir Joseph Hooker to be
M. melanopus, but in the Royal Herbarium at Kew there is a letter from Professor
Reichenbach, attached to dried specimens of Af. abbreviata, in which he says: ‘“ The

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip, front view ;—3a, lip, side view ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and
section of leaf, natural size.

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elder polysticta” (that is, the plant figured in 1876, Bot. Mag. t. 6258) “is, I have no

doubt, what I call abbreviata.”

The distinguishing features of the two plants are: In M. abbreriata the bracts are

larger and more ample than those of JZ. me/anopus, while the flowers are rounder and
wider, the edges of the sepals being serrated ; the tails of JL abbreviata are rounded.
while those of AZ melanopus are flat; to these characteristics may be added the
remarkable one-sided growth of the flowers of AL. melanopus, specially mentioned by
Professor Reichenbach in describing that species, and never seen in any form or varicty
of AL. abbreviata, the flowers of which are placed in no regular position upon the stem.
The internal organs, also, of AZ. abbreriata, as will be seen by comparing the two Plates
published in the present work, differ from those of AZ. melanopus both in structure and

colouring.

It is curious that the name abbreviate seems to have entirely disappeared from inost

collections, the name melanopus being substituted for every form and variety of

M. abbreviata; and I have received innumerable specimens under the name melanopus
which were in fact abbreviata.

The plant from which the accompanying drawing was taken has existed in the
collection of the Marquess of Lothian at Newbattle Abbey since 1879 under the name
of MW. abbreviata, and is probably one of the few which remain, correctly named, of the
original importation from Peru by Mons. Ortgies, of Ziirich.

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MASDEVALLIA CALOPTERA Rchb. f.

Masprvania Catoptera Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. L, p. 338 (nomen tantum) ; pt. IL., p. 322 ;
1875, pt. IL, p. 290 ; 1878, pt. I., p. 104; 1881, pt. II., p. 236 ; Ilustr. Hort. XXI. (1874), p. 60.

M. biflora, Regel in Gartenflora vol. I. (1891), t. 1341, fig. 2.

Leaf about 3 inches long, oblong-ovate, tridenticulate, carinate, narrowing below into a slender
grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green, the older leaves tinged with rust red.

Peduncle 4 or 5 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole,
many-tlowered, with sheathing bracts, pale green ; flowering bracts minute, apiculate, dull green.

Ovary 4 inch long, triangular, with six crenate wings, almost covered by the bract, green spotted
with crimson.

Sepals cohering for nearly 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous below ; dorsal sepal roundly
triangular, cucullate, carinate at the back, margins minutely serrate; lateral sepals oblong, margins
recurved ; all white, with crimson streaks, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails nearly 4 inch long,
orange-vellow.

Petals 5%, inch long, oblong, acuminate, margins rounded and denticulate, white, with one prominent

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crimson kee! near the anterior margin.

Lip a little longer than the petals, grooved at the base and united to the curved foot of the column
by a flexible hinge, with two oblong lateral lobes, and two longitudinal keels terminating in a rounded
central cushion, apex slightly recurved, trilobed, yellow, with longitudinal crimson lines and spots,
apex orange-yellow.

Column a little shorter than the petals, winged, apex bidentate, pale green, the foot and wings

crimson.

Rp eA CALOPTERA was discovered by Roezl in the Northern Andes

of Peru, growing in thick masses mixed with plants of Jf. polysticta and
M. melanopus. This remarkable proximity of numerous species of one section is again
noticed by Consul Lehmann under JZ. pachyura, and may perhaps account for the origin
of varieties and natural hybrids, some of which have received specific names. Roezl'’s
dried specimens of J. caloptera were named and described by Professor Reichenbach
in 1874, and it was not until the last few years that living plants were imported. These
were distributed under incorrect names, as M. pachyura and M. biflora, the latter name
being published by Regel in his Gartenflora, with a coloured figure of a small specimen
of M. caloptera.

A note from Consul Lehmann upon MV. abbreriata—received too late for publication
with our Plate of that species—may be inserted here. He mentions several localities
in which he also found M. polysticta and M. melanopus, the identical species found by
Roezl growing with ML. caloptera. The region is evidently the same as that explored by
Roezl during his discoveries.

Masdevallia abbreviata is contined to u comparatively small area in Northern Peru and Southern
Ecuador, at an elevation of 1,800 to 2,000 metres (5,850 to 7,150 feet). It grows on trees, overgrown
With mosses, lichens and epiphytes, in the thick damp woods which surround the Mountains of Amboca,
Catacocha, Gonzanami, Cariamanga, Hutiana, and Sabiango. These mountain-chains branch off partly
from the Huaira-urcu and partly from the Nudo de Savanilla, in the province of Loja, gradually sloping
in a south-westerly direction towards the dreary deserts of Northern Peru. The climate of this region
is damp and foggy throughout almost the whole year. Even during the dry season, which only lasts from
the beginning of July to the end of September, heavy mists envelope the forests every morning and
evening. The annual mean temperature ranges between 15°.5 and 17° centigrade (about 59° to
63° Fahrenheit).

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MASDEVALLIA MELANOPUS Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. L., p. 338 (nomen tantum); pt. IL., p. 322 ;
1875, pt. I, p. 136; Ve'teh Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 52.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, narrowing below into a slender pale green petiole sheathed
at the base, bright shining green, the back dull green and covered with very minute blackish dots, apex
tridenticulate.

Peduncle 8 or 9 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole,
green, spotted with dark crimson, flowers six or eight, all directed to one side ; bracts small, membranous,
sheathing the pedicels, brownish.

Ovary 4 inch long, grooved, with crenate wings, green.

Sepals all cohering for about 4 inch, forming a very narrow tube, slightly gibbous below, free portion
very short, triangular, 3-nerved, tapering into flattened yellow tails about $ inch long, white, with a
blackish-purple stain at the base, and very minute blackish-purple dots upon the outer surface, especially
along the central nerves, and upon the outer side of the tails.

Petals } inch long, linear at the base, obcordate, apiculate, the margins serrate, with a fleshy angled
keel on the anterior margin, white, the kee] dark crimson.

Lip about 3 inch long, grooved at the base and united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible
hinge, lateral lobes oblong, white edged with crimson, central Jobe narrower, with two obtuse longitudinal
keels, apiculate, vellow.

Column 4 little shorter than the petals, green, marked and narrowly winged with dark crimson, apex
crenate, foot very dark crimson.

ASDEVALLIA MELANOPUS was one of three species discovered by Roezl in the
Andes of North Peru, and named by Professor Reichenbach in 1874 from dried
specimens. Much confusion exists as to the identity of Reichenbach’s original
M. melanopus, and many forms and varieties of M. abbreviata are cultivated under this
name. The plant here represented wassent to me from Glasnevin by Mr. F. W. Moore,
and I at once recognised it as agreeing more nearly than any that I had previously seen,
with the original description of Mf. melanopus published by Professor Reichenbach, who
says (Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. IL, p. 322) :—“ The flowers would appear to be whitish, and
all directed to one side. The ovary, the base of the perigone, and the three bristles are
very dark, perhaps greenish black or brawnish black ; when the flowers are dried these ~
parts look black. There are also some small dots of the same colour over the perigone,
but they are only well seen with a lens.”

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin :

Fig. 1, petals, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
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The most noticeable characteristic of this plant is, perhaps, that, as stated by
Professor Reichenbach, the flowers are “all directed to one side.” In dried specimens
~ the small spots are less visible, while the dark colour at the base of the flowers becomes
more apparent, producing the blackish stain which suggested the name me/anopus, or

“ black-foot.” : .

Iam indebted to Mr. Moore for numerous examples of these flowers, as well as tor
a piece of his plant, at that time probably the only one of the species in the British Isles.

‘Note by Consul Lehmann :

The habitat of Masdevallia melanopus is in Ecuador and North Peru, where it grows on trees in dense
woods at an elevation of 2,400 to 2,700 métres (7,800 to 8,775 feet). I have found it on the Cordillera de
Amboca, near the villages of Cisne and Chuquiribamba, in the Province of Loja, Ecuador. Also near
Cariamanga, Hutiana and Sosoranga, in the mountains of Loja, and of Piura in Peru. It flowers in
October and November.

The climate of this region is damp and foggy during the greater part of the year. During the dry
season, which lasts only from the end of July to the first few days of October, parching winds sweep over
the mountains, and for several hours of the day the sun shines from a cloudless sky, causing many of the
plants to shrivel and die off. The annual mean temperature ranges between 14° and 16° Centigrade
(about 57° to 61° Fahrenheit).

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MASDEVALLIA PACHYURA Rechb. f. ;

MaspevaLtia Pacnyuka Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. IL, p. 322; 1881, pt. II., p. 336; Linnea
MILT. (1877), p. 12:

Leaf 5 or G inches long and nearly 1 inch wide, oval-oblong, narrowing below into a slender grooved
petiole sheathed at the base, apex tridenticulate, bright green, petiole dull purple.

Peduncle about 6 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from the base of the petiole, with three or -
four flowers at intervals of about half-an-inch, pale green, with very minute crimson spots on the upper
half, and two sheathing bracts below ; flowering bracts minute, apiculate, membranous, pale brownish-
green. .

Ovary 4 inch long, triangular, with six crenate wings, dull green spotted with dark crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4%, inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous
below, 3-nerved, ovate, cucullate, margins slightly toothed, pale whitish yellow, semi-transparent, covered
with small transverse reddish-crimson spots, the central nerve carinate, green, terminating in a slender
yellow tail nearly 4 inch long ; lateral sepals cohering for about 4 inch, oblong, 3-nerved, margins
reflexed, free portion about } inch long, yellow, with reddish-crimson spots and a dark crimson central
streak, base dark crimson, central nerves strongly carinate on the outer surface, tapering into orange-
yellow tails about 3 inch long. :

Petals about } inch long, obcordate, acuminate, the margins strongly serrate, with two lateral keels,
pale yellow.

Lip a little longer than the petals, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, pandurate,
with two lateral Jobes terminating in short keels, apex rounded, pale yellow covered with minute red spots.

Column equalling the petals, winged, apex minutely denticulate, greenish-yellow with crimson wings
and apex, and a few minute crimson spots on the inner surface.

WN ASDEVALLIA PACHYURA was discovered by Roezl in the Mountains of

Ecuador, and was first described by Reichenbach in 1874 from dried specimens.
The plant represented in the accompanying Plate was recently imported by Consul
Lehmann for Mr. James O'Brien, to whose kindness I am indebted for the opportunity
of drawing the first flowers of this species ever seen in cultivation.

Consul Lehmann sends me the following note :

M. pachyura has a comparatively smal] distribution along the western slopes of the Western Andes
of Ecuador, from the Mountains of Zaruma in 3°30! S. lat., to the western slopes of Chimborazo in
1° S. lat., at an elevation of 1,700 to 2,300 métres (5,525 to 7,475 feet). It is abundant in one small
district. only, viz, around Cayandelet on the road from Puente de Chimbo to Sibambe, and above
Pallatanga on the road trom Puente de Chimbo to Cajabamba. In all other localities it is very rare. It
usually grows on trees in very damp thick woods, but occasionally I have found it growing upon walls of
rock, as at Gualashay on the road to Guaranda. It flowers in March and April, and sometimes also in
November. The mean temperature of its habitat ranges from 15° to 18° Centigrade (59° to 64°.4
Fahrenheit).

The plants of Mf. pachyura which I sent to Mr. O’Brien under the name of M. tridens I had never
seen in flower, and only guessed them to be the latter. Many species of this section ( Amande Rchb. f./
grow mixed together—for instance, M. Lehmanni, M. melanopus, M. anachete, M. abbreviata,,
M. pachyura and M. tridens—and as the leaves of all are very much alike, it is a difficult matter to
distinguish one from another when out of flower.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from Mr. O’Brien’s plant:
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MASDEVALLIA POLYSTICTA Rchb. f.

Maspeva.tia potysticta Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. L., p. 338 (nomen nudum) ; pt. IL, p. 290;
1875, pt. L, pp. 40 and 656, fig. 134; 1881, pt. IL., p. 336; 1882, pt. L., p. 179 ; 1884, pt. I., p. 741,
in group fig. 141; 1889, pt. I., p. 139; Ilust. Hort. XXII. (1875), p. 41, pl. CXCIX. ; Bot. Mag.
t. 6368 (1878) ; Gartenflora (Regel) vol. XXV. (1876), p. 164, t. 869 ; Revue Hort. 1880, p. 250 ;
Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881), p. 271, var. crassicaudata ; 1888, p. 283; Veitch Manual
Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 58.

Leaf about 5 inches long, and 1 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, often much recurved,

margins reflexed, narrowing below into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle 8 or 10 inches long, many-flowered, terete, ascending from a joint at the base of the petiole,
dull green, with minute reddish spots ; pedicels scarcely } inch Jong, terete, curved ;_ bracts } inch long,
membranous, ovate, apiculate, concealing the pedicels and the base of the ovary, pale green.

Ovary 4 inch long, with six crenate wings, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about } inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous
beneath. free portion ovate for 3 inch, 3-nerved, cucullate ; lateral sepals cohering for about inch, linear-
lanceolate, 3-nerved, margins reflexed ; all white, with numerous small crimson or brownish-red spots, the
inner surface closely set with translucent white hairs, the lateral sepals having a broad central streak of
orange-vellow ; all terminating in slender tails about 2 inch long, often angled and thickened towards the
apex. orange-yellow, greenish at the back, with a few smal] crimson spots.

Petals about 4 inch long, spathulate, margins ciliate, with a strong kee] near the anterior margin,
apex acute, white, with a few crimson spots along the keel.

Lip about 4 inch long, pandurate, with two lateral lobes terminating in longitudinal keels near the
apex, rich orange-vellow covered with minute crimson spots, apex reflexed, with a rounded central lobe.

Column about 3 inch long, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, pale green, winged with crimson, and

with a few crimson spots.

ASDEVALLIA POLYSTICTA was discovered by Roezl in 1874 in the Northern
Andes of Peru, where it is found in great abundance, growing with J. melanopus
and M. caloptera. No detailed account of its habitat has been given.

It is apparently an extremely variable species, scarcely two plants bearing exactly
similar flowers. The spots upon the sepals vary greatly in number and size, and in depth
of colour, being pinkish-purple in some specimens and in others chocolate-crimson.
Some plants have thick, stiff flower-stems, and others very slender stems, while the
leaves of some are straight and upright, and of others much recurved. The most
distinctive characteristics of the species—in whatever form or variety—are the ample
membranous bracts and the numerous white hairs within the sepals. :

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a Plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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A dark variety, fig. 6 of the accompanying Plate, was sent to me in February by Sir
Trevor Lawrence, who informs me that it was found growing in the same mass with the
ordinary variety. The spots are rich crimson- mace. suffused and very numerous,
nearly covering some of the sepals, and the orange streak seen in the lateral sepals of
the ordinary variety, is replaced in this specimen by crimson-purple lines. I have also
received this dark variety from Mr. F. W. Moore, Glasnevin, Dublin.

Consul Lehmann sends more detailed information than any hitherto published

about the habitat of this species :

Masdevallia polysticta is found in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru. It grows on trees—
generally on Weinmannias—or occasionally on rocks, in park-like woods on the Cordillera de Amboea,
and in the vicinity of Gonzanama, Cariamanga and Hutiana in the Province of Loja ; and also around
Huancabamba in the Province of Piura, at an elevation of 2,000 to 2,500 métres (6,500 to $125 feet). In
general it occurs in great abundance, often covering the trunks and branches of trees, the plants attaining
a large size. In the Province of Loja it flowers from November until May.

In these regions there is a long rainy season, lasting from October to July, and during these months
the atmosphere is nearly always saturated with moisture. The annual mean temperature ranges between
14° and 16° Centigrade (about 57° to 61° Fahrenheit).

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COCCINEAE Rehb. f.

MVE plants included in this Section are chiefly remarkable for the brilliant colouring

of the flowers, the shortness of the lateral tails, and for long slender stems bearing
solitary flowers high above the leaves. The petals of all are very much alike in shape,
a curious mass of white viscid matter, the use of
which is not known, All the species hitherto discovered are in cultivation, and are
highly prized for the sake of their splendid and variable colouring.

and have beneath the marginal angle

G species figured :

Masdevallia amabilis Rehb. f
Barkeana Rehb. f
coccinea Lind. (=.W. Lindeni, André, et M. Haryana Rehb. 1.)
Davisii Rehb. f.
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MASDEVALLIA AMABILIS Rchb. f.

Masprvaniia Amapiuis Rehb. f. Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 116 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193 ; Belg.
Hort. 1873, p. 354; Tllustr. Hort. vol. xxi. (1874), t. 196 (var. lineata); Gard. Chron. 1881,
pt. IL., p. 236.

Leaf 5 to 7 inches long, 4 to 1 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, tridenticulate, carinate, dark green,
narrowing into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 10 or 12 inches long, terete, slender, ascending, 1-flowered, pale green tinged with pink,
With three or four sheathing bracts, the flowering bract about § inch long, 5-nerved, apiculate, pale green
or brownish.

Ovary about 4 inch long, curved, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, pale green tinged
with rose-pink.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly one inch, forming a deep narrow tube,
slightly curved, yellow shaded and nerved with rose-crimson ; free portion of the dorsal sepa] about 3 inch
in length, and the same in width, ovate, 3-nerved, orange shaded with crimson, tapering into a very
slender tail about 14 inch long, orange-red and crimson ; lateral sepals cohering for about 14 inch, 3 inch
wide, ovate-triangular, with 3 crimson nerves, brilliant red shaded with rosy crimson, velvety with lustrous
microscopic hairs, tails 4 inch long, very slender, dark crimson.

Petals } inch Jong, linear-oblong. curved, apiculate, with a prominent keel on the inner surface parallel
to the anterior margin, terminating in a curved point, beneath which is a mass of colourless viscid matter ;

yale orange-vellow. apex crimson.
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Lip 4 inch long, pandurate, with two longitudinal keels, margin reflexed, apex recurved, pale orange-
yellow at the base, then rose-crimson, apex and keels dark crimson.

Column } inch Jong, apex minutely denticulate, very pale yellow, marked at the back and narrowly

winged with crimson.

) eee ae AMABILIS was discovered by Warscewicz in the Peruvian Andes

about the year 1850, and was described by Professor Reichenbach in 1854 from
dried specimens. It was not known in cultivation until 1872, when Roezl brought living
plants from the same region, and these flowered first in 1875, at Brussels, in the collec-
tion of Mons. Linden. The flowers, which are faintly sweet-scented, vary much in colour,
some being brilliant scarlet veined and shaded with crimson, and others uniform glowing
amethyst-crimson with the veins scarcely visible. A less beautiful variety is yellowish,
shaded and strongly veined with crimson or red, and it is this form which is*figured in
L'llustration Horticole for 1874 as MZ. amabilis var. lineata, sometimes also sold as
M. anabilia var. striata.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : .
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MASDEVALLIA BARLZZANA Rchb. f.

MASPEVALLIA BARL.xANA Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1876, pt. 1, p. 170; 1881, pt. IL., p. 236; Belg. Hort.
1877, p. 14] ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. Zoe

Leaf about 5 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a
slender grooved pale green petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle, including the pedicel, 8 or 9 inches long, terete, erect, slender, one-flowered, with two or
three sheathing bracts, pinkish ; flowering bract nearly } inch long, apiculate, sheathing below, dull
ereenish-pink.

Ovary about 3 inch long, slender, with three large and three small rounded angles, dull pink.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion
ovate-triangular for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, terminating in a slender terete tail nearly 1} inch long ;
lateral sepals cohering for more than 1 inch, roundly triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails
about 4 inch long ; all rose-magenta, shaded and veined with scarlet or crimson.

Petals very minute, oblong, tridentate, with an angled keel on the anterior margin, white.

Lip scarcely as long as the petals, oblong, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge,
with two longitudinal keels, white, apex slightly reflexed, rose-pink. -

Column shorter than the petals, foot much curved, apex denticulate, white, taintly tinged with pink.

ASDEVALLIA BARLAANA was discovered near Cuzco, in the Andes of Peru,

by Davis, while collecting for Messrs. Veitch, in 1875. It was named by Professor

Reichenbach after Senhor Barla, Brazilian Consul, and Director of the Natural History
Museum at Nice, and the author of several botanical works.

This species is very closely allied to Jf, amabilis, but a glance at the Plate repre-
senting that plant will show that considerable differences exist between the two plants.

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Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA COCCINEA Lind.

MAspEVALLIA coccinea Lind. Mss. ; Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Rchb. f. Bonplandia II. (1854),
pp- 115 and 283 ; Xen. Orch. I. (1858), p- 197, t- 74; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 192 ; Gard.
Chron. 1868, p. 75, with fig. ; 1880, pt. I., p. $90 ; 1881, pt. II., p. 236, fig 49; 1884, pt.I., p. 736,
fig. 138; 1889, pt. IL., p. 239; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356 ; Garden 1878, pt. I., p. 102; Floral Mag.
1880, pl. 410, no. 2; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 33.

M. Lindeni André, Mlustr. Hort. XVIL. (1870), p. 226, pl. XLU.; XXI. (1874), p.101; Bot. Mag. t. 5990
(1872); Floral Mag. 1872, pl. 28; 1880, pl. 410, no. 1; Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 169, with col.
fic.; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 358 ; Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. I., p. 385, fig. 85; 1881, pt. IL, p. 336, fig.
62; 1884, pt. I. pp. 736 and 741 ; Orchids, Jennings, pl. XVII. (1875); Garden 1876, pt. IL.,
p. 240; 1878, pt. L., p. 102 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881), p. 407 ; Lindenia I. (1885),
p. 73, pl. XXXIV. ; var. grandiflora.

M. Lindeni var. Harryana André Ilustr. Hort. XX. (1873), p. 167, pl. CXLII.

M. Harryana Reh). f. Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1421 ; 1879, pt. I., p. 716, var. leta Rehb. f.; 1881, pt. IL.,
p. 305 ; 1884, pt. L, pp. 114 and 741, in group fig. 141; Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 169, with col.
fig. ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 353, pl. XXI.; Flores des Serres XXI. (1875), p. 155, t. 2250; Garden
1878, pt. L, p. 102 ; Floral Mag. 1880, pl. 410, no. 3; Oreh. Album (Warn. et Will.) I. (1882),
pl. 24, var. cerulescens ; IIL. (1884), pl. 105, var. atrosanguinea ; pl. 110, var. miniata; V.
(1886), pl. 224, var. Armeniaca ; VIII. (1889), pl. 344, var. decora ; Reichenbachia ser. 2, vol. I.
t. 26 (1891), var. splendens.

Leaf § or 9 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, dark green, narrowing below into a
slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 12 or 14 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from a joint near the base of the petiole,
with two or three sheathing bracts, dull green, tinged with crimson or red-brown ; tiowering bract nearly
1 inch long, oblong-ovate, sheathing below, carinate, apiculate, dull pale green, with a minute rudimentary
bud within at the base.

Ovary 3 inch long, curved, with six rounded angles, shining, brownish-green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a curved narrow tube,
white at the base, free portion triangular-ovate for 3 inch, 3-nerved, narrowing into a slender recurved
tail, 14 or 2 inches long, pale mauve, tail darker, crimson towards the apex ; lateral sepals cohering for
about | inch, free portions oblong-ovate for 14 inch, 5-nerved, terminating in short blunt tails, brilliant
magenta-mauve, with rosy crimson nerves, tails darker.

Petals 2 inch long, linear-oblong, keeled and angled on the anterior margin, pure white, faintly nerved
with rose.

Lip 2 inch long, oblong-pandurate, with two longitudinal keels, thickened and grooved at the base,
margin recurved, white, tinged with rose-pink, apex sharply recurved, rose-crimson, sometimes tinged
with yellow.

Column about } inch long, very narrowly winged, apex minutely denticulate, white, sometimes winged
and tipped with rose-crimson.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ;—5, column from another specimen ; a//
enlarged ;—G, apex and section of leaf ;—7, var. Harryana ; natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA COCCINEA.

N ASDEVALLIA COCCINEA was discovered about the year 1842 by Linden,

flowering in Anril on the southern slones of the mountains near Pamplona, in the
Province of Santander, Colombia, at an elevation of 9,500 feet. In this region the mean
temperature is 52° Fahrenheit. The first living plant imported into Europe was a small
piece sent to Ghent in 1867 by Gustay Wallis, among a quantity of other Orchids from
Colombia. This little unknown plant was treated with great care, and when it flowered
in 1870, it was named AMMasdevallia Lindeni, and described as a new species by Mons.
André in the “Illustration Horticole.”. From time to time varieties of AZ. coccinea were
imported from different elevations and localities in the Eastern Cordilleras of Colombia,
until it became universally known and cultivated as the most brilliant and variable species
of the genus. In 187] the first of these varieties, sent to Mr. Harry Veitch from Sogamosa
by the collector Chesterton, received the specific name of Harryana from Professor
Reichenbach, although, from the fact that he published no Latin description of the
flower, he does not appear to have really considered it a distinct species.

Some idea of the immense abundance and yariability of AZ. coccinea is afforded by
the account published in Mr. Veitch’s “ Manual of Orchidaceous Plants,” from which I
have permission to make extracts :—Its principal locality is on the eastern Cordillera,
between Sogamosa and Concepcion, where its vertical range is 7,000—10,000 feet ; it is
particularly abundant on that part of the Cordillera called the Sierra Nevada de Chita,
where it spreads in uninterrupted masses for miles, covering acres upon acres of the
upland slopes, and growing in the partial shade afforded by low shrubs. When in bloom
these masses of plants present a most striking sight, not only by the dazzling brilliancy of
the colours of their flowers, but also by their astonishing variety. There is scarcely a shade
of colour, from deep rich crimson-purple, through magenta-crimson, crimson-scarlet,
scarlet, orange, yellow, to cream-white, that is not represented in greater or less abund-
ance, the lighter shades of yellow being the rarest. In the lower limits of its range the
leaves are longer, narrower, and darker in colour, and the flowers are less numerous,
somewhat smaller, and of uniform colour, merging into that of the form known in
cultivation as M. Lindeni. It is only at and near the upper limits of its range that
the pale yellow and the white varieties occur.

Near Bogota also, this variable plant has been found, growing in patches several
acres in extent, in a climate of frequent rain and dense fogs, at an elevation of 8,000 to
12,000 feet. From this locality pure white flowers have been sent. I am informed by
Consul Lehmann, that the local native name for AL. coccinea is La Banderita,” or “the
little flag.” One of the dark crimson varieties has also received a name in the native
vernacular, signifying “ bull's blood,” a name now in use in horticultural parlance to dis-
tinguish one of the handsomest forms of the plant. Horticultural names have been
conferred upon so many sub-varieties that it would be impossible to enumerate them all.
Among the most striking forms may be mentioned atrosanguinea, with deep crimson-
purple flowers; ca@rulescens, magenta-crimson tinged with mauve; decora, dazzling
magenta ; miniata, vermilion-red with crimson veins; and deta, rosy-purple. So far as
T can ascertain, the pale yellow and the white varieties have never been in cultivation.

The accompanying Plate may be taken to represent, as nearly as can now be
determined, the original form of JZ. coccinea collected by Linden.

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MASDEVALLIA DAVISII Rchb. f.

Masprvatura Davis Rebb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. IL, p. 710; 1876, pt. I. p. 366 ; 1881, pt. IL., p.
236: Bot. Mag. t. 6190 (1875); Gartenflora (Regel) XXV. (1876), p. 975 XXVIII. (1878), p. 207
and 208; Xen. Orch. IIL. (1878), p. 3, pl. 208 ; Orch. Album (Warn. et Will.) I. (1883), pl. 76;
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 38.

Leaf 6 or 7 inches long, and about 4 or 3 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, apex sharply tridenticulate,
narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle, with pedicel, 9 or 10 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from a joint near the base of
the petiole, with two or three sheathing bracts, pale green, with small crimson streaks ; flowering bract
1 inch long, oblong-ovate, apiculate, carinate, sheathing below, pale green.

Ovary about % inch long, curved, with six rounded angles, bright green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, ovate-
triangular for about § inch, 3-nerved, terminating in a slender tail nearly 1 inch long ; lateral sepals coher-
ing for 14 or 14 inch, oblong-ovate, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails nearly } inch long ; all brilliant
yellow.

Petals 2 inch long, oblong, apiculate, anterior margin strongly keeled and angled, very pale yellow,
the inner surface viscid beneath the keel.

Lip about } inch long, oblong-pandurate, with two obscure longitudinal keels, grooved and fleshy
at the base, united to the curved foot of the column by a very flexible hinge, yellow, shaded and spotted
with red, apex crimson, much reflexed, with a central velvety crimson cushion. x

Column } inch Jong, white, yellow at the foot, narrowly winged with crimson, apex minutely crenate,
pale yellow.

py ecOBREY in 1873 in the Eastern Cordillera of Peru, not far from Cuzco, by

Davis, a collector for Mr. Veitch, whose account of its habitat given in his
“Manual of Orchidaceous Plants,” I quote as follows: “It occurs on the slopes of the
mountains at an immense elevation, probably not less than 10,500—12,000 feet, growing
in loam and moss, and also in decaying vegetable matter collected in the crevices of the
rocks. Its geographical range appears to be very restricted, extending but a few miles
along the flanks of the mountains within the vertical limits stated above, but where,
however, plants were seen in all stages of growth, from the smallest seedlings to masses
of considerable size.” :

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey:

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf,
natural size.

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Masprevatiia xaurraris Rehb. f. Bonplandia IT. (1854), pp- 115 and 283; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193 ;
Gard. Chron. 1880, pt. L, p. 7423 1881, pt. II., p. 336; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 52.

M. ignea Rebb. f. Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1482; 1872, p. 545, fig. 149; p. 571, var. Marshalliana Rehb. f.;
1873, p. 1079 ; 1881, pt. I., p. 136, var. Stobartiana Kehb. f. ; pt. IL, p. 303, fig. 57 (as in 1872) ;
IS84. pt. I, p. 741, in group fig. 141; Bot. Mag. t. 5962 (1872); Floral Mag. 1872, pl.15; Florist
and Pomol. 1873, p. 169, with eol. fig. ; Gartenflora (Regel) vol. XXV. (1876), p. 193, pl. 870 (as
M. coccinea Lind.) ; Garden 1878, pt. I, p. 102, pl. CXII.; 1885, pt. IL, p. 289, with fig. ; Ilustr.
Hort. vol. XXVI. (1879), p. 8, t- 333 5 p. 136, t. 357, var. Boddaerti hort. Lind. ; Orchid Album
vol. IL. (1883), pl. 62; vol. VI. (1887), pl. 278, var. Massangeana Will.; Orchidophile (Godefroy)
vol. I. (1881-3), p. 196, with fig.; p. 834; vol. V. (1885), p. 367, with fig. ; Lindenia vol. V.
(18s9), pl. CCXIX., p. 57 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 46.

Leaf (with petiole) 8 or 9 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, slightly carinate, apex trident-
iculate. dark green, narrowing below into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 12 to 15 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, terete, ascending from within the
sheath at the base of the petiole, bright green streaked with crimson ; flowering bract about 1 inch long,
sheathing below, ovate-apiculate above, yellowish-green.

Ovary about % inch long, with six rounded angles, green spotted with crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 1 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, free
portion triangular for ¢ inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender deflexed tail 14 or 14 inch long ; lateral
sepals cohering for nearly 1 inch, elliptic-oval, 3-nerved, margin reflexed, terminating in short blunt
crimson-scarlet tails ; various shades of orange and scarlet, veined and edged with cinnabar-red.

Petals nearly 4} inch long, linear-oblong, curved, apiculate, with a strong keel near the anterior margin
prolonged below into a curved angle, beneath which is a mass of viscid matter, tasteless and colourless ;
white or ivory, with a crimson central line.

Lip about } inch long, fleshy and grooved at the base and united to the curved foot of the column by
a flexible hinge, lincar-oblong, white and yellow, grooved in the centre, with two short longitudinal crimson
keels. margins crenate and more or less reflexed, apex recurved, cordate, apiculate, yellow.

Column } or 2 inch long, white, narrowly winged with crimson, apex more or less denticulate.
VERY variable species, of which the earliest known form was discovered by
Warscewiez in January 1849, near Ocanha in the mountains of Santander,

Colombia, at an elevation of 9,000 to 10,000 feet, and was named Masdevallia militaris
by Professor Reichenbach. Out of a large consignment of plants sent to Europe by

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Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
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Warscewicz only a small number survived the voyage, and specimens of these are still
cultivated in a few collections under the name of JZ. militaris. No turther importauon
of this plant was made until 1870, when Mr. Day, of Tottenham, introduced from the
same locality a variety to which Professor Reichenbach gave the name of J/. iguea, the
two plants being for a long time considered distinct species. In 1871, when Professor
Reichenbach published his first deseription of the brilliantly coloured AZ. ignea, he was
probably not aware of the extreme variability of the species, having previously seen only
the paler form collected by Warscewicz twenty years earlier; his descriptions are equally
applicable to many of the varieties now well known.

The fullest account of the habitat of JZ. militaris is given by Roezl, who, in 1870,
also found the plant in the mountains of Ocana. It was growing in countless thousands
ona slope, at an elevation of 11,000 to 12,000 feet, among low flowering shrubs, such as
Thibaudia and Vaceinitn, Melastomacee with fruits varying from yellow to dark red or
black, Ageratum in masses of blue and white, terrestrial species of Onecidinn, ete.,
which, mingling with its yellow, orange, and fiery-scarlet flowers, formed a brilliant
display of colour. Roezl relates that the brighter kinds of A/asderallia are greatly
admired by the native Indians, who plant them in open spaces acres in extent, and
make use of them on festal occasions for decorating their chapels and huts. Among
this abundance of specimens Roezl and a companion remained for several days, colleet-
ing the finest plants in immense numbers to send to Europe. His valuable importation
was, however, doomed to destruction, for it arrived at the port of St. Nazaire on the
Loire during the Franco-German war, and was detained there so Jong that every plant
perished.

The atmosphere at this great elevation in the mountains of Ocana, although fresh
and breezy, is always damp, with thick fogs every morning, and two rainy seasons during
the year. Wet moss covers the ground and rises in little mounds over the roots of the
plants, preserving constant moisture. The differences of situation and altitude in which
M. militaris grows cause infinite variation in the size and colour of its flowers, as w ell
as in the habit of the plants, and even in their time of flowering. Plants growing at the
lower level, in deeper soil or under the shade of spreading shrubs, develop longer, more
slender leaves and stems and less brilliant flowers, while those growing at a greater
elevation, in rocky and exposed places, have short stiff leaves and more brightly coloured
flowers. These characteristics are often retained by individual plants after a long period
of cultivation. Hence the wide range of variation seen in every collection, and the
popularity of this species among horticulturists, under whatever name.

A few of the most distinct varieties are: AZassangeana, with large flowers, yellow
and cinnabar-red; aurantiaca, light orange-red; Bodderti, crimson-scarlet marked with
pale yellow; cifrina, light orange-yellow ; Stobartiana, orange- -yellow, tinged and edged
with mauve-purple. Plants cultivated under the name of JL ignea are of a much
brighter scarlet than those called M/. militaris; of the latter I have seen flowers said to have
come from one of Warscewicz’'s original plants. The flowers here represented are nearer
those named by Professor Reichenbach Jf. ignea than those named by him 1. militaris.

Several hybrids have been raised between AZ. militaris ( M. ignea) aud other species:

M. Fraseri Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. L, p. 143; tube orange-red, sepals

magenta-crimson tinged with orange ; ‘aised in the collection of Mr. Fraser, of Dern-
cleugh, Aberdeen, between AM. militaria (AM. ignea) and J. coccinea (iM. Waricne)

M. Hincksiana Rehb. f., see M. tovarensis.

M. Ellisiana Rolfe, Gard. Chron. 1889, pt. IL, p. 154; tube bright yellow shaded
with rose, sepals richly tinted with orange, rose, and crimson ; raised in the collection
of Messrs. Veitch at Chelsea, between 7. coccinea var. Harryana and AL. imilitaris.

M. Mundyana, Gard. Chron. 1891, pt. 1., p. 682; and A. Heathii, Gard. Chron.

1891, both raised by Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, between M/. militaris var. aurantiacd
and M Voitehiana

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MASDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA Rchb. f.

Maspevarira Verrenmana Rebb. f. Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 814, and p. 1338 ; 1871, p. 1421, fig. 310a ;
1879, pt. IL, p. 308, fig. 49x, w; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409, fig. A; 1883, pt. I., p. 662 (var. biflora
Rchb.f.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 5739 (1868) ; Ilustr. Hort. vol. XV. (1868), p. 107; Flore des Serres t. 1803
(1868) ; Floral Mag. vol. IX. (1870), t. 481 ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 361, Florist and Pomol. 1873,
p. 169, fig. 1 of coloured Plate ; Warner, Select Orch. ser. 2 (1865-1875), t. 33 ; De Puydt, Les
Orch. (1880), p. 289, t. 25 ; Lindenia, vol. II. (1886), p. 97, t. 95.

Leaf 9 or 10 inches long, linear-oblong, obtusely tridenticulate, carinate, dark green, narrowing below
into a slender grooved petiole, pale green, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 12 to 18 inches long, terete, slender, with two or three sheathing bracts, green, with small
crimson streaks ; flowering bract about 1 inch long, 5 or 7-nerved, carinate, apiculate, sheathing, pale green.

Ovary 4 to 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, dull green shaded with crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 14 inch, forming a narrow curved tube,
free portion triangular-ovate for 1 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail 1 or 2 inches long ; lateral
sepals cohering for about 1} inch, free portions oblong-triangular, 5-nerved, margins reflexed, tapering into
slender tails } or 2 inch Jong, inner surface of all brilliant orange-scarlet, more or less closely set with
short, translucent, purple hairs ; outer surface pale yellow, nerved and shaded with scarlet.

Petals varying slightly in different specimens, nearly } inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate or
tridenticulate, anterior margin narrowly keeled, terminating in an angle with a mass of viscid, tasteless,
colourless matter beneath, white, sometimes tinged with yellow at the apex.

Lip varying in different specimens, about 4 inch long, united to the curved foot of the column by a
tlexible hinge, tleshy at the base, linear-oblong, margin variably reflexed, white and rose-purple, with two
longitudinal, dark purple keels, apex sharply reflexed, very dark purple, with a velvety cushion of minute
papillee. ;

Column 4 to 2 inch Jong, apex denticulate, white, narrowly edged with crimson.

yy ee EG VEITCHIANA was discovered near Cuzco, in 1867, by Pearce, at

an elevation of 11,000 to 13,000 feet, and-was named and described by Professor
Reichenbach in 1868. With Mr. H. Veitch’s permission I quote from his “ Manual of
Orchidaceous Plants,” Part V. p. 69, the following account by his collector Davis of the
habitat of this species :

“ Muasdevallia Veitchiana occurs above the timber line, at the altitude above stated ;
the plants are found in the crevices and hollows of the rocks with but little soil about
their roots, but sometimes where a small quantity of decaying vegetable matter has
accumulated ; in this case the plants are more robust, and when partially shaded by

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the stunted shrubs found here and there, or by projecting rocks, produce larger flowers;
in the former case the plants are more tufted and more floriferous, but the flowers are
smaller. At this great altitude, notwithstanding the tenuity of the atmosphere, the
heat from the direct rays of an almost vertical sun is very great on clear days, but the
nights are damp and chilly; the range of temperature is therefore very considerable.
Vapour is constantly rising from the streams and valleys below, keeping the atmosphere
always highly charged with moisture; besides this, rain is frequent, even in what is called
the dry season.”

Although Af, Veitchiana rarely produces more than one flower upon the same stem,
a plant at Newbattle, from which the accompanying plate was drawn, for several
successive years developed stems bearing two flowers, the upper flower expanding some
days after the lower, and being always considerably smaller. There were besides, single-
flowered stems upon the same plant. Professor Reichenbach, to whom a two-flowered
stem from this plant was forwarded noticed it in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1883, pt. L.,
p. 662, as var. biflora. Variation in size and colour of the flower appears to be due
only to more or less successful methods 8€ cultivation.

In the first published figure of AZ. Vitel plate 5739 of the Botanical Magazine,
drawn by Mr. W. H. Fitch, the plant is repfesented with a small pseudo-bulb, and
several botanical publications, copying or slightly altering their plates from this figure,
perpetuated the error. No species of the genus Aasderallia has pseudo-bulbs. The
grooved leaf-stalk springs from a rigid rounded stem, often more slender than the leaf-
stalk itself, and concealed by a sheathing bract-like membrane surrounding the base.

Several hybrids have been artificially raised between Af. Veitchiana and other species
of Masdevallia, viz. :

M. Chelsoni Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1880, pt. I., p. 554; an artificial hybrid between
M. amabilis and M. Veitchiana ; colour, orange-red, more or less closely set with minute
crimson hairs.

M. splendens Rolfe, Gard. Chron. 1889, pt. L, p. 619; an artificial hybrid between
M. Veitchiana and M. amabilis, the reversed cross of the above; colour, brilliant
orange-crimson, with amethyst hairs.

- M. Gairiana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1884, pt. IL, p. 38; an artificial hybrid between
M. Veitchiana and M. Davisii; colour, orange-yellow, with crimson hairs.

M. splendida Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1878, pt. L, p. 493; colour, orange-scarlet, with
purple hairs.

M. Parlatoreana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1879, pt. L., p. 172; colour, brilliant orange-
scarlet, with crimson-purple hairs.

The two last-mentioned hybrids are especially interesting as having been found
growing wild in the habitat of MZ Veitchiana. Professor Reichenbach, on examining
wild specimens of MZ. gplendida, suggested that the plant migiit be a natural hybrid
between M. Veitchiana and M. Barleana, or between M. Veitchiana and AL. amabilis.
His opinion was afterwards confirmed, a plant exactly identical with the wild specimens
of M. splendida having been raised by Mr. Seden, in the establishment of Messrs.
Veitch, by fertilising flowers of Mf. Veitchiana with pollen from flowers of AZ. Barlewana.
M. Parlatoreana has been proved to be the result of the reversed cross, and has
larger and more brilliantly coloured flowers than M. aplendida.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petals, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2 and 2a, petals from
different specimens, inner side ;—3 and 3a, lips from different specimens ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of
column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of small leaf, natural size.

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SECTION IIL.

CORIACEZ Rchb. f.

Mest of the plants in this Section have rigid, leathery (coriaceous) leaves, and thick

succulent flowers, borne erect upon strong stalks, or pushed out laterally from
the base of the leaf-stem. The flowers of nearly all the species have two well-developed
nectaries at the base of the lip, containing, in three or four instances, a considerable
quantity of honey. In this Section are included the most fragrant and the most

malodorous of the Genus.
18 species as

Masdevallia campyloglossa Rehb. f.
civilis Rehb. f. (= uiloba Regel, et M. rufolutea Lindl.)

coriacea Lindl. (=J¥. Bruchmiilleri Lind.)

cupularis Rehb. f.

elephanticeps Rehb. f. (=M. Gargantua Rehb. f.)

fractiflexa Lehm. MS. (not in cultivation.)

fragrans, sp. NOV.

Laucheana Rehb. f.

leontoglossa Rehb. f.

Mooreana Rehb. f. (=AL. elephanticeps rar. pachysepala Rehb. f-
et M. sororcula Rehb. f.)

Ortgiesiana hort.

pachyantha Rehb. f.

Peristeria Rehb. f.

platyglossa Rehb. f.

porcelliceps Rehb. f.

striatella Rehb. f.

torta Rchb. f.

velifera Rehb. f.

Yauperyensis Rodrig. (not in cultivation.)

Not in cultivation :

M. afjinis Lindl. Orch, Lind. (1846), p. 5.
angiulata Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 15.
Bonplandii Rchb. Bonplandia IIT, (1855), p. 69.
Cayennensis Rehb. f. Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. XXIII. (1854 ), p. 248.
chloracra Rehb. f. Flora (Singer ) 1886, p. 560.
ellipes Rehb. f. Linnea XLT. (1877), p. 11.
ensata Rehb. f. Linnea XXIT. (1849), p. 818.
fractiflexa Lehim. (see Plate /.
heterotepala Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 561.
levis Lindl. Ann. Nat. Hist. (1845), p. 257.
lepida Rehb. f: Bonplandia ITT. (1855), p. 69.
macroglossa Rehb. f. Otia, Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 16.
pardina Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb, (1878), p. 15.
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Maspevanira campyLoGciossa Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1878, pt. IL, p. 588; Orchidophile (Godefroy)
INS], p. 84; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 27.

Leaf about 4 inches Jong, oblong-lanceolate, very thick and leathery, stiff and erect, obtusely triden-
ticulate, dark green, sometimes tinged with dull red, narrowing below into a stout grooved petiole,
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Peduncle. with the pedicel, about 2 inches long, terete, slender, growing laterally from the base of
the petiole, with two or three sheathing bracts, pale green spotted with crimson ; flowering bract about
4 inch long. apiculate. sheathing below, with a rudimentary bud within at the base, pale green when
young, with erimson spots, fading to pale brownish-yellow.

Ovary a little more than 4 inch Jong, much curved, with six rounded angles, very dark green, with
minute crimson spots.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for } inch, forming a wide tube or cup, free portion
ovate-triangular for nearly 3 inch. 3-nerved, tapering into a fleshy tail nearly 4 inch long; lateral sepals
cohering for about 3 inch, free portion ovate-triangular for nearly 4 inch, 3-nerved, terminating in a fleshy
tail 4 inch Jong ; all pale greenish vellow, with numerous crimson spots, chiefly upon the nerves.

Petals nearly 2 inch long, linear at the base, upper part ovate, acuminate, with a sharp angle on the
anterior margin, very pale green, with a central line of dull crimson spots.

Lip about 4 inch long. united by a strong hinge to the foot of the column, oblong, curved, crenate at
the margin, surface rough. especially towards the apex, whitish-green, with three longitudinal crimson

lines, apex green.

Column shorter than the petals, stout. narrowly winged, apex slightly crenate, green, the foot yellow.

HE habitat of this species is unknown, and the only information to be obtained
about it is, that it was purchased at a sale of Orchids at Stevens’ Rooms, in 1878,

by Messrs. Veitch, who distributed specimens among the few collections which possess --
the plant.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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MASDEVALLIA CIVILIS Rchb. f.

MASpEVALLIA civitis Rehb. f. Bonplandia TI. (1854), p. 115; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 191; Bot.
Mag. t. 5476 (1864); Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 236; Veitch
Manual Orch., pt. V. (1889), p. 33.

M. equiloba Regel, Gartenfl. IX. (1860), p. §2, t. 285; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 353 ; Gard. Chron. 1881,
pt. IL, p. 236; Orchidophile (Godefroy), 1881, p. 83.

M. rufolutea Lindl. Wrswez. Cat. 1853 ; Gard. Chron, 1853, pp. 192 and 328.

Leaf 8 or 9 inches Jong, 3 to 4 inch wide, linear, recurved, very thick and fleshy, apex obtusely triden-
ticulate, dull green, narrowing below into a very thick, deeply-grooved, pale green petiole, with large
membranous sheaths at the base.

Peduncle, including pedicel, about 3 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, erect, terete,
attenuate towards the base, bright pink below, greenish above, with numerous small crimson spots ;
flowering bract 4 inch long, 3-nerved, closely sheathing below, with a rudimentary bud within at the base,
pale green or purplish.

Ovary about } inch Jong, with six rounded angles, shining, pale green spotted with crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about J inch, forming a wide tube ; lateral sepals
cohering for about 1 inch, gibbous beneath ; all sepals ovate-triangular for nearly 4 inch, 3-nerved, fleshy,
greenish-yellow spotted with dark crimson-brown, inner surface rough with minute silver-white hairs,
outer surface shining, crimson near the base, nerves dotted with minute brown spots ; each sepal termin-
ating in a slender flattened tail, orange-vellow in front, dark brown or spotted at the back.

Petals about } inch Jong, slightly curved, linear at the base, very thick and fleshy, margins angled
and much thickened, white. very shining, with a broad central streak of crimson, base rich crimson, apex
acute, greenish,

Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong, fleshy, base deeply grooved in the centre, with a hollow
nectary on cach side, anterior portion with one central and two lateral keels, all widening and terminating
ina rounded warty line, dull grevish-white, with numerous dark crimson spots, apex rough with obtuse
papilla. blackish crimson,

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NV ASDEVALLIA CIVILIS was discovered by Warscewicz upon the eastern slopes of

the Peruvian Andes, and was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1854
A description and an uncoloured Plate are given by Regel in “Gartenflora” of 1860,
under the name of Masderall/a wquiloba, a plant which he considers to be distinct from
AM. civilis, and which was also collected by Warscewicz in the Andes of Peru. The very

Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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trifling differences mentioned by Regel, chiefly some small characteristics of the
flowering bract, do not, however, justify specific distinction.

A dried specimen in the Lindley collection of AMasderallia in the Royal Herbarium,
Kew, collected by Warscewicz at the sources of the Maraiion (or Amazon) in May, 1853,
and named by him Jf. rufolutea, is identical with IL. civilis of Professor Reichenbach,
who, during one of his numerous visits to Kew, wrote underneath this specimen the
name JM. cirilis. No botanical description was ever published under the name rufolutea,
which first appeared in a catalogue of the sale of Warscewicz’s plants in 1853.

The thick, rigid, and very narrow leaves are a marked characteristic of M. civilis,
the flowers of which species, outwardly dull and unattractive, show internally great
beauty of structure and colouring. The succulent sepals and petals of this and of many
allied species are, in cultivation, often found to be gnawed by small insects. In their
native wilds, where the insect necessary to the requirements of each species is probably
to be found, it is possible that this dainty food may be the means of attracting suitable
insects to aid in the work of fertilization, Honey is rarely present in the small nectaries
more or less developed in every species nearly allied to Af. cirilis, but the surface of the
sepals and petals, and sometimes of the column, is often intensely shining, or covered
with viscid matter—perhaps equally attractive.

Hardly anything is known about the method of fertilization of any species of
Masdevallia, although in a wild state most of them appear to ripen seeds in abundance.
In the Herbarium Boissier at Chambésy, near Geneva, nearly all the specimens of
Masdevallia (more than 150 in number, most generously placed at our disposal for the
furtherance of the present work), show fine capsules in various stages of developement.
The large size attained by a ripe capsule in proportion to its size during the flowering
stage is very remarkable.

Consul Lehmann gives the locality in which he has found this species :

Masdevallia civilis is found in the vicinity of Huancabamba, in the Department of Piura,
North Peru, at an elevation of 2,100 to 2,500 métres (6,825—8,125 feet). It grows among
grasses and small shrubs in loamy soil, and upon rocks where thin layers of vegetable
matter and soil have accumulated. The plants are a good deal exposed to the sun, and
to the winds which sweep during several months of the year over the high plains of the
Andes. Those exposed to the full influence of the sun are much smaller and have darker
flowers than those growing partly sheltered and shaded under the shrubs.

The annual temperature of the above region is between 14° and 16 Centigrade

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MASDEVALLIA CORIACEA Lindl. -

Maspevatnia cortacka Lindl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. (1845), p. 257; Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 4 ;
Karsten Flora Colomb, (1862-1869) vol. IL, p. 103, t, CLI. ; Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1067 ; 1881,
pt. IL. p. 236; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 36.

M. Bruchmilleri Linden Cat. n. 90 (1873) ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 355 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IT., p. 236.
Leaf 6 or 8 inches long and about § inch wide, linear, slightly carinate, thick and’ fleshy, apex
obtusely tridenticulate, dull green, narrowing into a thick, grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.
Pedunele, including the pedicel, nbout 7 or 8 inches Jong, with two bracts, terete, 1-flowered or rarely
2-flowered, ascending from a joint at the base of the petiole, pale green spotted with crimson ; flowering
bract about 1 inch long, ovate-acuminate above, sheathing below, 5-nerved, pale green spotted with purple. |

Ovary about 4 inch Jong, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, shining, bright green,
minutely dotted with crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion ovate-
triangular for 4 inch, 3-nerved, greenish-white, spotted along the nerves with crimson ; lateral sepals
cohering for about an inch, free portions ovate-triangular for nearly J inch, 3-nerved, greenish-white,
covered on the inner surface with minute white hairs, nerves pale green spotted with crimson, the spots
very numerous at the base of the tube; all the sepals terminating in thick fleshy tails 4 to 1 inch long,
greenish or dull pale yellow, spotted at the back with crimson, green at the apex.

Petals § inch long, oblanceolate, thick and fleshy, with a prominent angle near the centre of the
anterior margin, beneath whieh the inner surface is covered with thick viscid matter, tasteless and colour-
less ; shining white, central nerve crimson, apex greenish.

Lip about 4 inch long, oblong, with two longitudinal, angled keels, greenish-white, with three crimson
lines terminating before the apex ; base fleshy, united to the curved foot of the column by n flexible hinge,
deeply grooved, with a wide hollow nectary on each side, purple with minute dots; apex triangular,
ereenish, crenate and covered with minute papille.

Column about } inch long, pale green, narrowly winged with crimson, apex minutely denticulate, foot
white or pink, spotted with crimson.

ASDEVALLIA CORIACEA was discovered by Hartweg on the hills of Montserrate
near Bogota, and his dried specimens were described in 1845 by Dr. Lindley.
Shortly afterwards it was found by Linden at an elevation of 7,200 feet, growing upon
trees in the forests of Fusagasuga in the Province of Bogota, flowering in December, the
temperature at this altitude being about 59° Fahrenheit.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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2a. side of petal ;—3, lip ;—3a, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of
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Dr. Karsten, in his “ Flora Colombi,” gives a drawing of the plant from fresh
specimens found by him in the mountains of Bogota, 8—9,000 feet above the level of the
sea, where it grows in dense masses upon moss-covered rocks, and on the bark of trees,
over which it spreads its fleshy rounded roots.

The species seems to be a variable one, for, in the Plate above mentioned, the flowers
are represented as bright yellow, and Dr. Lindley also, in his description both of
Hartweg's and Linden’s plants, states that the colour of the flowers is yellow. The
accompanying Plate represents the ordinary form of AL. coriacea now in cultivation, and
I have never seen a plant of this species with distinctly yellow flowers. A more brightly
spotted form of Af. coriacea is sold by some dealers under the name of MW. Bonplandii,
the spots within the tube of the flower and upon the lip being especially numerous and
brilliant.

I am informed by Consul Lehmann that the true AZ, Bonplandii of Reichenbach is
a totally distinct species, more nearly allied to AL, civilis than to AL. coriacea. Professor
Reichenbach in 1855 described it as a distinct species, and in 1872 decided to consider
it only a variety of J. coriacea.

The first living plants of Af. coriacea imported into England were those sent in 1S71
to Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., of Clapton, by their collector Bruchmiiller, in) whose
honour they named the plant AZ, Bruchmiilleri, under the impression that it was an
unknown species.

Fig. 6 of the accompanying Plate shows ripe seed-capsules of JL, coriacea, drawn from
dried specimens in the Boissier Herbarium at Chambésy near Geneva, and found in 1883
by Consul Lehmann on the Savana de Bogota. To the generosity and courtesy of Mons.
Eugéne Autran, Curator of the Boissier Herbarium, I am indebted for the opportunity
of making this interesting addition to my drawing.

Consul Lehmann’s note on this species is as follows :

4M. coriacea grows on sandstone rocks upon which thin layers of soil and decayed leaves have accumu-
lated, and is found along the western border of the Savana de Bogotii, at an elevation of 2,500 to 2.650
meétres (about §,125 to 8,612 feet). It is plentiful in the vicinity of Bojaca, Facatativa, Tres Esquinas and
Subachoque, and in all these localities it is exposed to severe changes of climate—sun, rain, and strong
winds. The annual average temperature of this region is between 13° and 14° Centigrade (about 55° to
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MASDEVALLIA CUPULARIS Rchb. f.

Maspevaiuia curuLanis Rehb. f. Beitr. Orch. Centr. Amer. (1866), p. 93; Gard. Chron. 1879, pt. L.,
p. 559; Godm. et Salvy. Biologia Centr. Amer., Bot. Hemsley, vol. ITE. (1882-1886), p. 207 ;

Orchidophile 1888, p. 162.

Leaf about 2 inches long, oval. coriaceous, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, narrowing below

into a slender grooved petiole sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle, with the pedicel, a little longer than the leaves, terete, erect, slender, attenuate below, with
two sheathing bracts, pale green ; Howering bract about } inch long, membranous, acuminate, sheathing
below, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base, brownish-green.

Ovary | inch long, curved, with three large and three small rounded angles, bright green.

Sepals all cohering equally for about 4 inch, forming a cup-like tube, gibbous below, free portions
triangular-ovate for 2 inch, 3-nerved, the principal nerves carinate without, semi-transparent, reddish-
yellow, closely spotted with crimson, the nerves green; terminating in slender flattened greenish tails,
tinged with red at the base, rather more than 4 inch Jong.

Petals | inch long, oblong, apiculate, with 2 rounded angle on the anterior margin and a small keel
near the opposite side, dull vellow spotted with red.

Lip nearly twice as long as the petals, lobed and fleshy at the base, and united to the curved foot of
the column by a flexible hinge, oblong-cordate, margins reflexed, vellowish, spotted and stained with red,
with dark red longitudinal lines, the apex studded with long crimson papillw, much reflexed.

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MAspeva LLIA CUPULARIS was discovered in August, 1857, by Hermann

Wendland, at Desengaiio, in Costa Rica, and was again found nearly thirty years
after, by Hubsch, in the same locality. It is still a rare plant and exists in very few
collections, all the specimens in cultivation having probably originated from an importa-
tion of Hiibsch’s plants by Mr. Sander, with whom it first flowered in 1887.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant in the collection of Mr. Sydney Courtauld:

Fig. 1, petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—3a, base of lip (much enlarged) ;—3b, reflexed apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ;
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Maspevaniia eLErHANTICEPS Rehb. £2 Bonplandia II. (1854), p. 116 ; UT, (1855), p. 69; Xen. Orch. I.
(1858), p. 6, t. 3; Plor. des Serres ser. I., vol. X. (1854-5), p. 77, t. 997 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861),
p. 192; Gard. Chron, 1881, pt. IL. p. 236 ; Veitch Manual Orch, pt. V. (1889), p. 40.

M. Gargantua Kebb. tf. Gard. Chron, 1876, pt. IL, p. 516; 1881, pt. IL, p. 305; 1886, pt. I., p. 13;
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 43.

Leaf 9 or 10 inches long, oblong, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a thick grooved petiole,
sheathed at the base, bright creen, with « few crimson spots, the younger ones very bright, the older ones
tinged with rich purple. 1

Pedunele 1) inch Jong, pedicel about the same length, terete, with two sheathing bracts, ascending
from within the sheath at the base of the petiole, green, with crimson spots ; flowering bract about 1 inch
long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish-green, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary nearly } inch long, with six rounded angles, bright green, with crimson spots.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 3 inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous below,
free portion ovate-triangular for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a flattened fleshy tail about 19 inch
long, brilliant Iemon-yellow, the tail brighter yellow, green at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for 23
inches, free portions oblong-ovate, angled at their junction, margins reflexed, 3-nerved, the nerves
prominent on the outer surface, depressed within, deep reddish-crimson, rather shining, the surface covered
with blunt excrescences, yellow at the margins, tube pale greenish-yellow, deeply stained with crimson
within at the base, very thick and substantial.

Petals about 2 inch Jong, thick and fleshy, oblong-ovate, anterior margin with a thick angled excres-
cence, beneath which the surface is covered with colourless viscid matter, white, shining, with a rich
crimson central streak and a few spots.

Lip about ¥ inch long, oblong, fleshy and grooved at the base, and united to the foot of the column
by a flexible hinge, with a shallow neetary on each side, margins reflexed, greenish, broadly bordered with
crimson, rough with papille, the apex dark crimson, with a rounded central line, and covered with coarse
branching purple-crimson hairs.

Column about } inch long, very thick, broadly winged, green edged with crimson, apex minutely

denticulate, margin studded with minute viscid drops.

GR E first specinens of this maguificent plant were dried ones sent with a drawing to

Professor Reichenbach by its discoverer, Warscewicz, who found it in 1850, in the
mountains of Santander, between Ocana and Pamplona, growing in woods on damp
turfy ground, ina temperature of 6 to 10° Réaumur (about 46° to 55° Fahrenheit). It
Was also found shortly afterwards by Wagener and Schlim, in woods near Ocafa, at an
elevation of 7—s,000 feet, and more recently by Brickmiiller, Shuttleworth, and other
collectors. Warscewicz’s drawing, published by Reichenbach in his “ Xenia Orchi-
dacea,” represents a very large flower, larger, probably, than any yet produced in

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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MASDEVALLIA ELEPHANTICEPS.

cultivation. The first plants which flowered in this country were imported by Messrs.
Veitch in 1874, from Frontino in Antioquia, and when Professor Reichenbach received
from Mr. Veitch rather small fresh flowers from these plants, he gave them the specific
name Gargantua, failing to identify them with the dried specimens to which, more than
twenty years before, he had given the name elephanticeps. His description of the colour-
ing of M. Gargantua agrees exactly with that of AL elephanticeps, the “three pale
whitish stripes on each side” being the opaque prominent nerves, through which the
ruddy crimson within the flower is not apparent. The plant is now grown in many
collections of Masdevallias under the two names, the flowers being always identical.

In describing the fresh flowers Reichenbach notices their strong disagreeable smell
—a characteristic which must of course have been absent from the dried specimens.
This odour is perceptible at some distance from the plant, and so exactly resembles that
of tainted meat that it speedily attracts flies. It is most powerful when the flowers first
open, and ceases gradually before they fade. I have myself observed that flies had even
deposited their eggs upon the surface of the flower, but when the young grubs hatched,
they failed to find sustenance in its tissues, and perished. Although the odour must he
intended to attract some insect suitable for fertilising the flower, I could not perecive
any method by which flies or their larvee could effect this purpose, or that they could by
any possibility remove the rather strongly attached anthers. Some more vigorous insect
—possibly a beetle—doubtless exists in the native habitat of this plant, specially adapted
for the fertilisation of the flower, and attracted towards it by the peculiar odour which
it emits.

It was with an importation of M. e/ephanticeps made by Mr. Bull from Ocana, that
our new species Af. fragrans was introduced. The plant remained in his collection until
purchased by the Marquess of Lothian as MV. e/ephanticeps, for which it continued to be
mistaken until the appearance of its pale yeliow fragrant flowers proved its distinctness.

Reichenbach’s M. elephanticeps var. pachysepala is no doubt identical with
Mooreana, of which a Plate follows in due order.

Mr. Lehmann adds the following information :

Masdevallia elephanticeps has rather an extensive distribution over the northern parts of Colombia.
but always seems to occur but sparingly. In the State of Santander it is chiefly met with around Ocana,
and in Antioquia it is to be found in the wood between Guarne and Santo Dominzo. In both localities the
elevation is from 1,800 to 2,100 métres above sea-level (5,850 to 6,825 feet), and I think that it was from
the latter place that the plants named by Reichenbach Af. Gargantua were found. [t grows on trees near
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MASDEVALLIA FRACTIFLEXA, sp. nov. Lehm. et Kriinz. MS. Planta cespitosa; folio oblongo-
lanceolato, coriaceo, marine revoluto, apice tridenticulato, viridi, in petiolum suleatum robustum sensim
angustato, basi vaginato; pedunculo unifloro, tereti, erecto, curtiore quam folio, basi bracteis vaginantibus
vestito, viridi, rubro-maculato ; bractea sub flore membranacea, supra ovata, infra vaginanti, apiculata ;
ovario costato, viridi, rubro-maculato ; sepalis in tubum constrictum connatis, basi in mentum producto,
carnosis, limbis ovatis, trinerviis, in ecaudas triquetras sensim elongatis, abrupte reflexis, viridi-luteis,
exteriore minute transverse rubro-striato, caudis coccineis ; petalis linearibus angulatis, pallide luteis, apice
viridi acuto; labello lineari, margine revoluto, pallide luteo, coccineo maculato, apice trilobato, coccineo,
papilloso ; columna petalis wquilonga, apiculata, pallide lutea, rubro marginata, pede rubro.—Species nova
sectionis Coriacee Rehb. f—Hab. Ecuador. Lehm. Herb. 10,020.

Leaf about 10 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, apex tridenticulate, green, narrowing below

into a grooved petiole. sheathed at the base.

Peduncle, including the pedicel, about 4 inches long, terete, ascending from the base of the petiole,
with several sheathing bracts, green spotted with crimson; flowering bract 3 inch long, membranous,
apiculate, sheathing below, green, tinged and spotted with crimson,

Ovary 2 inch long, with six rounded angles, green, with small crimson spots.

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Sepals cohering for about 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous below, 3-nerved, coriaceous, pale
yellow, with numerous small transverse crimson spots on the exterior, tapering into slender reflexed
crimson tails, about 24 inches long.

Petals about 4 inch long, linear, angled at the margin, apiculate, pale yellow, with a pale green apex
and central line.

Lip about } longer than the petals, united by a hinge to the curved foot of the column, linear, margins

recurved, apex tri-lobed, pale yellow spotted with crimson, the apex covered with small papille.

Column equalling the petals, apiculate, pale vellow, with the margin and foot bright crimson.

HIS very rare and interesting plant was discovered by Mr. Lehmann in 1876, in the

Zastern Andes of Loja, the most southern province of Ecuador. It was named by

him and his friend Dr. Krinzlin, of Berlin, in allusion to the abruptly refiexed tails of
the sepals. The exact locality is stated by Mr. Lehmann, as follows :

I discovered plants of JA fractifiexa as long ugo as November, 1876, but for many years I never saw
the Hower. In December, 1890, I found one flower only, and two years afterwards, I was so fortunate as
to find a large nuinber of plants in flower, enabling me to make careful drawings and observations. Asa
species it is very characteristic and easily to be distinguished, and, with its pretty and curious flowers,
would deserve a place in any collection of Orchids.

OF all Masdevallias which I have observed, this is the rarest, and although I have spent many months
in exploring every accessible part of the Eastern Andes, I have hitherto found comparatively few specimens
of it, and those only in one place. This locality is called “‘ E) Dictamno,” and is situated on the descent
from the Eastern Andes, about half-way between Loja and Zamora, at an eleyation of 1,800 métres
(5,850 feet), The plant grows on trees, from eight to sixteen feet from the ground, in very damp thick
woods, and in a region where, during the whole vear, there are very few days without rain.

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MASDEVALLIA FRAGRANS, sp. nov. Planta dense czspitosa ; folio oblongo-lanceolato, rigido crasso, apice
obtuse tridenticulato, viridi pulchro, nerviis lateralibus clarioribus, in petiolum robustum sensim
angustato, basi vaginato ; pedunculo unifloro, tereti, erecto, viridi, rubro-maculato, multo curtiore
qnam folio; pedicello pedunculo quilongo, viridi pallidiore ; bractea fusca membranacea, supra
ovata. infra amplexanti ; ovario costato, glabro, viridi, rubro-maculato ; sepalis in tubum extensum
connatis. mento infra obtuso, triangulis, trinerviis, in caudas carnosas planas elongatis, citrinis, ex-
teriore nerviis rubro-maculatis, nerviis sepali imparis rubris, sepalis lateralibus intus molliter pilosis,
caudis flavis. viridi tinetis ; petalis basi linearibus, supra oblongis, apiculatis, margine anteriore carnoso
angulato, eburneis, linea centrali rubra, apice viridi ; labello lingueformi, basi carnoso, glandulis
duabus nectariferis, apice verrucoso, flavo, minute rubro-punctato, lineis rubris tribus ; columna
robusta, alis rubris angustis, viridi, intus rubro-striata, apice minute denticulato, pede flavo, rubro-
maculato. Flos fragrantissimus et perelegans, qui Af. pachyanthe florem magnitudine prope
wquat.— Species nova sectionis Coriacee@ Rehb. f—Hab. Ocafia ?

Blade of leaf 5 or 6 inches long, 1 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, apex bluntly trident-
iculate, bright shining green. the principal nerves paler, narrowing below into a thick grooved petiole,
sheathed at the base.

Peduncle (with pedicel) 3 or 4 inches long, terete, ascending from the base of the petiole, green
spotted with crimson; pedicel about 14, inch long, very pale bluish-green, with minute crimson spots on
the outer side ; bract about # inch long, ovate, sheathing below, dull brown.

Ovary nearly 3 inch lon, with six rounded angles, green spotted with crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous below, free
portion triangular for about J inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a fattened fleshy tail nearly 4 inch Jong; lateral
scpals cohering for about 3 inch, free portion ovate-triangular for 4 inch, with three principal nerves,
tapering into fleshy tails } inch long; all the sepals clear lemon-yellow, the tails tinged with canary-yellow
and ereen, the nerves of the dorsal sepal bright crimson, the inner surface of the lateral sepals velvety
with numerous short soft hairs.

Petals 4 inch long, linear at the base, oblong above, apiculate, thickened and angled on the anterior
margin, thick and fleshy, shining ivory-white, with a broad crimson central nerve, apex greenish.

Lip 4 inch long, tongue-shaped, fleshy at the base, with a small hollow nectary containing honey on
each side of the central nerve, anterior portion rough with small papille, bright yellow, with a few small
crimson spots and three dull crimson lines.

Column 3 inch long, stout, narrowly winged, apex slightly denticulate, pale green, with crimson lines
within and with crimson on the wings and apex, foot bright yellow, with small crimson spots.

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species. It was purchased from Mr. Bull in 1887, for the Marquess of Lothian’s
collection, under the name of AZ. elephanticeps, and until the first flowers appeared, in
April 1892, no suspicion of the incorrectness of this name was entertained, the great
resemblance between the leaves of the two species justifying those who named the plant.
That the flowers of JZ. fragrans do not resemble those of AL. elephanticeps need hardly
be pointed out ; the shape and size of the massive flowers of the latter, with their long
tails and the dark colouring of their lateral sepals, are sufficient to distinguish the two
at a glance.

The habitat of AZ. elephanticeps is Ocafia, in the proviuce of Santander, Colombia,
where it grows in woods at an elevation of 6,000 to 10,000 feet. Mr. Bull's plants of
M. elephanticeps were imported from that locality, and there seems to be little doubt
that JZ. fragrans was introduced among them, the two probably growing together, and,
when not in flower, so closely resembling one another as to be indistinguishable.

The delicate fragrance of the flowers—an uncommon characteristic throughout
the genus AZasdevallia—suggested our specific name for this plant.

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Planta cespitosa : folio oblongo-ovato, apice acute denticulato, nervoso, viridi lucido, in petiolum
tenuem sulcatum sensim angustato, basi vaginata, pedunculo unitlore, tereti, erecto, tenui, bracteato, ex
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amplexanti, viridi pallido ; pedicello pedunculo wquilongo, tereti, viridi pallido ; ovario costato, viridi ;
sepalis in tubuni constrictum connatis, mento infra rotundo, triangulis, cucullatis, trinerviis, in caudas
carnosis aureis elongatis, albis, nerviis tribus coccineis ; petalis oblanceolatis, apiculatis, margine anteriore
crasse angulato, margine posteriore pauce carinato, albis. apice viridi ; labello oblongo, luteo, basi carnosa,
earinis duabus angulatis parallelis, in pulvillum coccineum molliter pilosum terminatis, apice minute
aspero. aurco : columna tenui, anguste alata, alba, coccinea-marginata, apice denticulato—Flos formam
ius VW. Wageneriane habet.—Incognitum est qua habitet et quis collegerit.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, oblong-ovate, apex acutely tridenticulate, narrowing below into a slender
erooved petiole sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle about 2 inches long. terete, slender, erect from the base of the petiole, pale green ; bract
nearly | inch long. ovate-apiculate. sheathing below, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base,
pale ereen.

Ovary | inch Jong. curved, with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sefials all cohering for about 2 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous below, free portions roundly
triangular, 5-nerved, pure white, each with one rose-crimson streak, and all terminating in terete bright
orange-tails nearly 1 inch long.

Petals less than } inch long, oblanceolate. with a thick angled keel on the anterior margin and a
small one near the opposite side, acuminate, pure white with a green apex.

Lip Jonger than the petals, thickened at the base and united by a hinge to the foot of the column,
with two angled longitudinal keels. terminating ina velvety crimson cushion, pale vellow. apex slightly
crenate, orange-vellow.

Column shorter than the petals, slender, narrowly winged, apex denticulate. white, with a narrow
edge of dark crimson.

LTHOCGH Masdecallia Laucheana has been known in cultivation for five or six

years, no drawing or botanical description of it has hitherto been published. “It
was named by Dr. Kriinzlin, of Berlin, in honour of his friend Herr Lauche, of Eisgrub,
Austria. [can obtain no information as to its origin or habitat. A very pretty variety
is grown in Sir Trevor Lawrence’s collection of Masdevallias, which has a rose-coloured
spot upon the angle of the dorsal and lateral sepals, and three streaks of the same
colour upon the dorsal sepal. The tails of this flower are of a richer orange than those
of the type. and the lip is very pale vellow.

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MAsprVALLiA LEoNTOGLOssA Rehb. tf. Bonplandia TI. (1853), p. 69; Walp. Amn. VI. (1861), p. 191;
Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. L. p. 234; pt. IL., p. 336; 1885, pt. IL, p. 429, fig. 92; Veitch Manual
Orch, pt. V. (1889), p. 49.

Leaf 6 or S inches long, about 1 inch wide, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, obtusely tridenticulate, dark
green, spotted on the base and margin with crimson, narrowing into a grooved petiole sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 1) or 2 inches long, thick, terete, with two or three sheathing bracts, pale green spotted
with bright crimson, descending from the base of the petiole ; flowering bract 2 inch long, 3-nerved,
ovate, closely sheathing near the base, very pale green spotted with crimson.

Ovary 2 inch long, with six rounded angles, green spotted with crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion tri-
angular for } inch, 3-nerved, semi-transparent, with three crimson nerves, pale greenish-yellow, spotted
with crimson on the outer surface and covered with short rigid hairs within, tapering into a fleshy tail
1} inch Jong, greenish, with small crimson spots; lateral sepals cohering for about 1 inch, ovate-
triangular, 5-nerved, semi-transparent, pale greenish-yellow, the inner surface covered with short rigid
hairs and heavily spotted with crimson, tapering into fleshy tails ¥ inch long, green, with a few small

crimson spots.

Petals about $ inch long, linear at the base, ovate above, anterior margin angled, with a prominent
fleshy lobe on the inner surface, shining white, with one or two crimson streaks.

Lip 2 inch long, united to the foot of the column by a very flexible hinge, grooved in the centre,

with a deep nectary on each side at the hase, anterior portion tongue-shaped, whitish, covered with crim-
son spots, and rough with small papillw, apex dark crimson, covered with papilla.

Column } inch long, winged, shining white, spotted on the foot and edged with dark crimson, apex
minutely denticulate.

WAsPEVALiia LEONTOGLOSSA was first described by Professor Reichenbach

in 1855, from dried specimens collected by Hermann Wagener in the neighbour-
hood of Pericos, in New Granada, at that date one of the three great Republics of
Colombia. It first flowered in cultivation at Brussels in 1867, in the collection of
Mons. Linden. The downward growth of the short, thick flower-stalks distinguishes it
from allied species, and the nectaries at the base of the lip secrete honey in greater
abundance than those of any species which I have examined. The lip curiously resembles

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a Plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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2a, petal, side ;—3, lip ;—3a, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—a, apex of

column; a// enlarged ;—, apex and section of lip, natural size.

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the tongue ofa lion in shape and in the roughness of its surface, and doubtless suggested
to Professor Reichenbach the specific name Jeontoglossa.

Consul Lehmann adds the following information :

Masdevallia leontoglossa is found in Colombia, where it grows on trees, and rarely on
the ground, in the vicinity of Ocafia, at an elevation of 1,800 to 2,300 métres (5,850 to
7,475 feet). The temperature of this region is 15° to 18° Centigrade (59° to 64°.4

Fahrenheit).
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MASDEVALLIA MOOREANA Rechb. f.:

Masprvatiia Mooreana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1884, pt. I., p. 408 ; 1887, pt. IL., p. 777 ; Orchidophile
(Godefroy), 1884, p. 134; 1888, p. 262; Bot. Mag. t. 7015 (1888); Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V.
(1889), p. 53.

M. elephanticeps var, pachysepala Rehb. f. Bonplandia IL. (1854), p. 283; Xen. Orch. I. (1858), p. 198,
t. 74, figs. III. and IV.

M. sororcula Rebb, tf. Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. IL, p. 713 ; Orchidophile (Godefrov) 1888, p. 230.

Leaf about 7 inches long, oblong, obtusely tridenticulate, coriaceous, curved, narrowing below into a
stout grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, dull purple-green, the young leaves bright shining green, with
a few dull crimson spots upon the petiole.

Peduncle searcely more than $ inch long, with a pedicel 1 inch long, terete, with two sheathing bracts,
ascending from the base of the petiole, green, with small crimson spots; flowering bract 3 inch long,
apiculate, sheathing below.

Ovary 2 inch long, with six rounded angles, dull green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about } inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous below,
free portion ovate-triangular for 3 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a flattened fleshy tail 2 or 24 inches long,
pale greenish-yellow, with crimson nerves and yellow tail; lateral sepals cohering for about 14 inch,
oblong-ovate, 3-nerved, rich purple-crimson, the nerves darker, covered with papilla, and tapering into
flattened tails nearly 2 inches long, usually crossed, pale yellow shaded with crimson.

Petals about 4 inch long, oblong, apiculate, much thickened on the anterior margin, white and
shining, with a rich crimson central streak.

Lip « little longer than the petals, tongue-shaped, grooved and fleshy at the base, and united to the
curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, purple-crimson, with darker longitudinal lines, the apex
covered with stiff dark hairs.

Column shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, green, the apex, margin and foot
crimson.

HERE has been much doubt as to the specific distinctness of 1Z. Mooreana, and
frequent confusion between it and JZ. elephanticeps. I have no hesitation in
identifying it with Reichenbach’s Jf. elephanticeps var. pachysepala, although it is
difficult to account for the fact that he afterwards named the same plant AZ. Mooreana.
Thirty years, however, elapsed from the time (1854) when he published the earlier name,
with a very scanty description of dried specimens sent to him from Ocaiia by Warscewicz,
until the date of his examination of the specimens which he named AZ. Mooreana—fresh
flowers produced from cultivated plants. In 1858 a more detailed description of the
same plant was given in his “ Xenia Orchidacea” from a coloured drawing sent to him
by Wagener with specimens preserved in alcohol. A comparison of Wagener's drawing

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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(Pl. 74 Xen. Orch. I.) with specimens of JZ. Mooreana and AM. elephanticeps shows that
it much more nearly resembles the former than the latter, of which an unmistakeable
figure is given at Pl. 3 of the same volume. The long, unspotted, strongly-veined tube of
M. elephanticeps, its oblong lateral sepals tapering into narrow tails, and especially the
unstriped, bright yellow dorsal sepal, clearly distinguish it from rar. pachysepala (M.
Mooreana ), with its short spotted tube and wide flattened tails, and the three conspicuous
crimson streaks upon the dorsal sepal.

In describing M. Mooreana in 1884, Reichenbach gives no locality or discoverer’s
name. Accepting it as identical with AZ. elephanticeps var. pachysepalu we must, there-
fore, turn to his account of that plant for information as to its habitat. He states that it
was found by Warscewicz, Wagener, and Schlim, in woods near Ocajia, at an elevation
of 7 to 8,000 feet.

The plant named by Reichenbach in 1886 J. sororcula, cannot be considered
specifically distinct from 4. Mooreana. The flower is rather smaller and more slender
in shape, and the wings of the column are a little wider. The yellow of the sepals is
slightly greener in shade, but the colouring is otherwise identical.

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Maspevarnia Onrcrestana, hort. Orehid Review vol. III. (1895) p. 48.

Planta dense espitosa ; folio lineari-lanceolato, rigido, apice tridenticulato, viridi, in petiolum
robustum sulcatum sensim angustato, basi vaginata, pedunculo uniflore, tereti, erecto, bracteato, tenuissimo,
multo curtiore quan folio, ex basi petioli emergenti, viridi, minute rubro-punctato ; pedicello curtio,
tereti, viridi pallido, rubro-maculato ; ovario curvato, costato, viridi, rubro-maculato ; sepalis in tubum
vel evathum connatis, mento infra rotundo, ovatis, trinerviis, in cuspides obtusas planas terminatis,
eburneis vel albis, roseo-tinetis, nerviis minute rubro-maculatis vel striatis, cuspidibus viridibus ; petalis
lanceolatis, acuminatis, albis, apice viridi; labello obovato, recurvato, basi sulcata, margine anteriore
crenato, apice verrucoso, albo, lineis roscis tribus parallelis ; columna curta, anguste alata, alba, apice
tridenticulato.—Flore minore quam illo M. striatelle, sed illi affinii—Incognitum est qua habitet et quis
collegerit.

Leaf about 4 inches long, linear, stiff and fleshy, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a stout grooved
petiole, sheathed at the base, green.

Pedunele 2 inches Jong, terete, very slender and wiry, with two sheathing bracts, erect or semi-
lateral from the base of the petiole, green, with minute crimson spots; flowering bract } inch long,
membranous, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish.

Ovary about 4 inch Jong, curved, with six rounded angles, pale green, with minute crimson spots.

Sepals about 4 inch Jong, all cohering almost equally for } inch, forming a wide open tube, rounded
helow, free portions oblong-ovate, 3-nerved, ivory-white or pale pink, with a few rose-coloured spots,
especially along the nerves, and all tapering into flattened fleshy green points.

Petals about | inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate, white, apex green.

Lip longer than the petals, thickened and grooved at the base and united by a hinge to the foot of
the column, oval-oblong, white, with three rose-coloured lines, anterior portion covered with asperities,
pinkish.

Column much shorter than the petals, winged, white, apex denticulate.

HROUGH the kindness of Mr. F. W. Moore I have the opportunity of publishing
a drawing of the only known plant of Afasdevallia Ortgiesiana, and although I have
endeavoured in every way to ascertain its habitat and discoverer, the information which
I have been able to obtain is of the scantiest. In 1891 the plant was purchased by
Mr. Moore from Messrs. Seeger and Tropp—a firm which has now ceased to exist—and
they had received it “from the Continent.”. Even Mons. Ortgies, of Zurich, after whom
the plant is named, and to whom I have applied for information, can tell me nothing
of its origin, or of the unknown friend who named it in his honour. No botanical
description of the species has hitherto been published, and only a short account of it is
given in the Orchid Review for Feb. 1895, of flowers from Mr. Moore’s plant. The
nearest ally of AZ. Ortgiesiana is M. striatelia, but in that species the large development
of the lip and petals in proportion to the size of the sepal-tube is rather less remarkable.
In neither of these two little plants—the smallest of their group—is there any sign of a
nectary at the base of the lip, and in placing them in the Section Coriacew I am
following Professor Reichenbach, who classed M. striatella with M. campyloglossa.

The woodcut is taken from a photograph kindly supplied by Mr. Moore.

Explanation of Plate drawn from a plant in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin :

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Maspevanuia vacuyanrua Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1884, pt. L, p. 174; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1884,
p. 100; Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 561; Veitch Manual Orch. V. (1889), p. 56.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, oblong-ovate, obtuscly tridenticulate, coriaceous, dark green, narrowing
below into a thick grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle about 3 inches long, including the pedicel, which is nearly 1 inch long, terete, with two
sheathing bracts, ascending from the base of the pedicel, green spotted with red ; flowering bract 4 inch
Jong, membranous, apiculate, sheathing, brownish.

Ovary | inch long, with six rounded angles, very shining, pale green tinged with brown.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 1 inch, forming a wide cup, free portion
triangular-ovate for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender fleshy tail } inch long, honey-yellow,
semi-transparent, with numerous minute crimson dots and crimson nerves, tail bright yellow ; lateral
sepals cohering for nearly 1 inch, gibbous below, broadly ovate for 3 inch, 3-nerved, terminating in
flattened tails 4 inch long, honey-yellow covered with soft minute amethyst-crimson hairs and spots,
especially upon the nerves, tails dull green.

3 inch long, ovate-oblong, thickened at the margins, very shining, with viscid matter
within near the base, apiculate, pale yellow, with one crimson central streak.

Petals about 3

Lip } inch long, oval-oblong, much curved, very thick and fleshy, with two very thick keels or ridges
terminating half way, dull mottled crimson, apex rough with papilla, dark crimson-purple.

Column 8 inch long, narrowly winged, green, edged with crimson, apex denticulate, crimson.
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WyAsveEva LLIA PACHYANTHA was first described by Professor Reichenbach in

Iss4, from specimens sent to him by Messrs. Carder and Shuttleworth, in whose
collection it flowered for the first time in cultivation. Whether the original discoverer
of this species was Mr. Cross or Consul Lehmann seems uncertain, for Reichenbach
states that he had specimens “a long while ago,” collected by Mr. Cross; adding,
“Lehmann also wrote to me about it long ago.”

Z In the British Museum of Natural History there are dried specimens collected by
Mr. Lehmann in 1881 on the western slopes of the Central Cordilleras of Popayan, at an
elevation of 3,000—3,500 metres (9,500 to 11,375 feet), and others found by him in 1882,
growing upon trees in damp mountain woods on the western slopes of the Paramo de
Moras, at an elevation of 3,000 metres.

The plant here represented is rather a small specimen, and in the collection at
Glasnevin, Dublin, both leaves and flower-stalks attain a greater length.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3, lip ;—4, column ;—
4a. apex of column ; al/ enlarged ;—3, apex and section of leaf, natural size. —

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Mr. Lekmann sends the following noite :

Masdevallia pachyantha is restricted to the western slopes of the Central Andes of Popayiin and
Pasto, from 1° to 3° north of the equator, at an elevation of 2,900 to 3,300 métres (9,425 to 10,725 fect).
It grows on trees in the thick damp forests of the upper Andes, and also on walls of volcanic rocks form-
ing the sides of steep ravines. With the exception, perhaps, of MZ. racemosa, it is the commonest of al]
Masdevallias, sometimes entirely covering the trunks of trees from the ground up to a considerable height.
I have observed it on the slopes of the Piramo de Moras, and on the Paramo de las Delicias and Guamicas,
upon the volcano of Puracé, in great abundance on the Piramo de Barbillas, on the volcano of Tajwmbina,
and in numerous other localities.

M. pachyantha is a very variable species, and the flowers of plants found near Pasto are nearly double
the size of those growing on the volcano of Purac¢é, and are heavily blotehed—not strenked—with dark
purplish-brown. The largest plants and flowers come from the Piramo de Barbillas, and these finels
developed specimens in all respects justify the name pachyantha (thick flower). Among the plants crow-
ing on the Psramo de las Delicias and Guanicas there is a variety with rather small pale yellow flowers.

The climate of the habitat of Mf. pachyantha is remarkable for its excessive and continual dianpness,
with a clouded foggy atmosphere and extremely cold winds. There is only a short interval, from January
until March, when little or no rain falls, and at this time instead of rain dense fogs prevail, rising just
above the forests and enveloping them in constant mist and twilight. During the rest of the year there
are heavy rains, with sharp east winds, the temperature often falling as low as 1° above zero Centigrade
(33°.8 Fahrenheit). The average temperature is between 10° and 11°.5 Centigrade (50° and 41.8
Fahrenheit).

As a wild plant J/. puchyantha flowers most profusely, often lasting from September until May.

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t. 6159; Flore des Serres, 1877, vol. XXII. t. 2346; Illustr. Hort. 1878, vol. XXV. ser. 3,
t. 327, p. 152.

Leaf about 5 inches Jong, linear-lanceolate, thick and fleshy, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a
slender petiole, dark green, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 2} inches long, terete, ascending from a joint near the base of the petiole, with two
sheathing bracts, pale green, sometimes spotted with crimson ; flowering bract 4 or ¥ inch long, 3-nerved,
sheathing below, ovate and apiculate above, pale green or brownish, and having within at the base a small
rudimentary flower-bud.

Ovary } inch Jong, curved, with six rounded angles, bright green and shining.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about $ inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous
beneath ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 1} inch ; all triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, greenish-yellow with
numerous dark crimson spots, and tapering into fleshy tails about 14 inch long, flattened at the base,
triynetrous towards the apex, yellow, greenish at the back.

Petals about 4 inch long, oblanceolate, curved, fleshy, shining, pale green, sometimes with a few
brown spots, apex minutely denticulate, anterior margin slightly keeled, with colourless viscid matter
beneath.

Lip 4 inch long, pandurate, base fleshy and deeply grooved, with a small concave nectary on each
side, centre with two longitudinal elevated lines, and two rugose lateral keels, greenish white, spotted and
margined with deep purple, apex much reflexed, crenate and rough with numerous dark crimson papille.

Column nearly 4 inch long, broadly winged, attenuate below, green, foot rich crimson, apex white.
slightly denticulate.

HERE appear to be two or three varieties of Masdevallia Peristeria, although none
of them are very strikingly distinct in their characteristics. Consul Lehmann
informs me that the original form described by Professor Reichenbach (Gard. Chron.
1874, pt. I., p. 500) is not now in cultivation, and that it differed from the variety
universally known in collections and figured in the accompanying plate, in having more
brightly coloured flowers and longer tails. A coloured sketch in my possession, drawn
by Consul Lehmann in the actual habitat of the plant, of the variety which he considers
to have been the first introduced into Europe, represents the flowers of a bright golden
yellow spotted with crimson-purple, and having yellow tails nearly two inches long and
more slender than those of the best-known variety.

M. Peristeria was first imported from Colombia in 1873, by Gustav Wallis, while
collecting for Messrs. Veitch, who supplied Professor Reichenbach with the fresh flowers
named and described by him in 1874. On referring to Mr. H. Veitch for information
respecting the appearance of these first imported plants, I cannot, however, learn that
they differed in any way from the variety now in cultivation.

Professor Reichenbach appears to have suspected the existence of two varieties of
M. Peristeria, for he remarks (Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. L, p. 500): “If this plant has ever
been observed before, it was by my friend Wagener, in Venezuela. I have a sketch of

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his much like this, but, since no specimen was added, I, of course, never named it. The
tails of the perigone, however, are represented as green, and the flower is much smaller.”
This description agrees well with the appearance of a small variety now in cultivation in
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, a specimen of which has been kindly
sent to me by Mr. F. W. Moore for examination, with the information that the plant
had been named for him by Professor Reichenbach Masdevallia Peristeria vay. minor.

The locality first mentioned by Consul Lehmann in the following note is, he informs
me, the habitat whence plants of AZ. Peristeria were first imported to Europe. The
second locality mentioned is the habitat of the plant now known in cultivation, to which
he refers as “ A peculiar variety.”

Masdevallia Peristeria Rehb. f. grows on trees in park-like woods near Caldas, near
Medellin, and also about Carolina in the department of Antioquia, at an elevation of
1,800 to 2,200 métres (5,850 to 7,150 feet). A peculiar variety grows about Pususquar,
on the road from Tuquerres to Barbacoas, in the southern part of the department of the
Cauca, at an elevation of 1,600 métres (5,200 feet).

The plant grows most commonly near the ground on the trunks of trees, chiefly oaks,
in open woods or by the river-sides, where a free circulation of air takes place. It
attains its largest development when growing on the decayed trunks of oak-trees lying
on the ground. Its appearance is confined to small areas, but wherever it is to be
found it grows in great abundance. In some localities, favourable to the requirements
of the plants, fully one half of the flowers produce seed-pods, while in less congenial
localities seed-pods are very rarely to be met with.

In Antioquia AZ. Peristeria flowers from October to December, and in the Cauea in

January and February.
F. C. Lenmany.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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lip ;—3a, apex of lip ; all enlarged ;—3b, base of lip showing nectaries, much enlarged ;—4, column ;—
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MASDEVALLIA PLATYGLOSSA Rchb. f.

Maspevannta rearyciossa Rehb. £2 Gard. Chron, 1882, pt. IL, p. 552; 1887, pt. IL, pp. 717 and 787 ;
Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1882, p. 4715 Veitch Manual Orch, pt. V. (1889), p. 57; Bot. Mag.
t. F185 (1891).

Leaf about 3 inches long. oblong-lanceolate. coriaceous, apex acutely tridenticulate, dark green,

narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele 14 or 2 inches long, terete, attenuate towards the base, descending or lateral from the base
of the petiole, with two or three sheathing bracts, pale green ; towering bract 3 inch long, membranous,
sheathing below. ample above, concealing the short pedicel and the base of the ovary, with a minute

rudimentary bud within at the base, very pale green.

Ovary | inch long, curved, with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal scpal united to the lateral sepals for about | inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous
beneath. free portion triangular for nearly § inch, 3-nerved, the central nerve strongly carinate, terminating
ina blunt fleshy tail ,3, inch long; lateral sepals cohering for 3 inch, free portions ovate-triangular,
S-nerved, terminating in blunt tails or points scarcely 4 inch long ; all lemon-yellow, with pale green

nerves, the surface slightly velvety.

Petals nearly 2 inch long. oblong at the base, triangular at the apex, the anterior angle much pro-

longed, fleshy, shining, pale clear yellow, with a greenish central line.

Lip more than 4 inch Jony. united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, base grooved and
fleshy. with a deep nectary on each side, oval-oblong, with two short longitudinal keels, pale vellow, with
darker nerves. the apex covered with large acute papille.

Column nearly 2 inch long, broadly winged, pale green, the curved foot vellow, apex crenate, widely

spreading, white.

T is uncertain who was the discoverer of Wasdeeallia platyglossa. Uts habitat is in

Antioquia, but the exact locality is unknown. The plant first flowered in cultiva-

tion in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, in 1882, and was named by Professor

Reichenbach plityg/lossa, ov “ flat-tongue,” in allusion to the broad flat lip, fig. 3 in the

accompanying Plate. This feature is unusually large compared with the other parts of

the flower, and is especially remarkable for the great development of the nectaries at
the base.

Explanation of Plate. drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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MASPEVALLIA porceLLIcErs Rehb. £. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. I., p. 10; Orchidophile (Godefroy)

1883, p. 567.

Leat about 5 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, obtusely tridenticulate, very coriaceous, narrowing below

into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, dark green.

Pedunele. including the pedicel, about 1) inch long, terete, lateral from the base of the petiole, with
two sheathing bracts. ereen, with erimson spots ; flowering bract } inch long, sheathing below, ovate-
acuminate above, pale green, spotted with crimson when young, brownish-green later.

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Ovary about } inch long, curved, with three rounded and three flattened lobes, pale green, with a few
crimson spots.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for rather more than 4 inch, forming a narrow tube,
gibbous at the base, free portion oblong-triangular, tapering into a flattened fleshy tail about % inch
long ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 2 inch, oblong-ovate, tapering into fleshy tails } inch long ; all
3-nerved, the principal nerves prominent on the outer surface, pale vellowish-green, covered with crimson
spots. chiefly upon the inner surface, which also shows numerous patches of crimson hairs.

Petals nearly 2 inch long, oblong-ovate, angled on the anterior margin, pale green, with one short
crimson streak in the centre.

Lip nearly 1 inch long, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, tongue-shaped, with a
hollow nectury on each side of the base containing much honey, whitish or very pale green, with crimson
spots along the sides, and having two obscure lateral keels terminating in an oval cushion at the apex,
which is crimson and covered with minute papillz.

Column short and stout. narrowly winged, foot curved, apex denticulate, pale green winged and
tipped with crimson,

fll small species, one of the least interesting and attractive of the genus, was first
described by Professor Reichenbach in 1883, from specimens sent to him by
Mr. James O’Brien.

The name “ porce/liceps” was chosen by Reichenbach on account of a fancied
resemblance in the shape of the buds to that of a young pig’s head. In general
appearance and in the downward or lateral growth of the flowers it is closely allied to
MW. leontoglossa, and but for certain specific differences it might almost be taken fora
miniature form of that species.

Iam unable to obtain any information as to its habitat.

Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

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MASDEVALLIA STRIATELLA Rehb. f.

Maspevaniia stmaren.a Rehb, f. Gard. Chron. 1886, pt. IL, p. 103 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1886,

p- 306.

Leaf 3 or 4 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, Apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing
below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle about 24 inches long, terete, very slender, ascending from the base of the petiole, pale
green; bract } inch long. membranous, apiculate, \ith a minute rudimentary bud within at the base, pale
vellowish-green.

Ovary ,%, inch Jong. with six grooves, bright green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 3 inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous below,
free portion triangular-ovate for y's inch; lateral sepals cobering for nearly } inch, free portions triangular-
ovate for $ inch; all 5-nerved, dull white, semi-transparent, with three bright crimson streaks, and all
tapering into flattened fleshy tails ,%; inch long, yellowish-olive, sometimes greenish.

Petals 4 inch long. oblanceolate, with an angle on the anterior margin, apiculate, very pale pink, with

a broad central crimson streak, apex green.

Lip rather more than 4 inch long, oblong, the basal half lobed, anterior half with two longitudinal
keels, dull pink, with crimson spots on each side, and three central crimson streaks, the base and apex
yellowish.

Column nearly equalling the petals, white margined with crimson, apex with four crimson teeth.

VHE first plant of J. striatelia known in cultivation was one imported in 1883 by

Mr. James O’Brien, and given by him to Mr. Lee, of Downside, Leatherhead, in

whose collection it flowered in 1886, supplying the specimens first named and described
by Professor Reichenbach.

A larger importation of this species was afterwards made by Messrs. Sander, from
Tovar, in Venezuela, but no details of the exact elevation and temperature are
forthcoming.

The following information has been received from Mr. Lehmann :

Masdevallia striatella is confined to the central mountains of Antioquia and the northern districts of
the Cauca, where it is distributed over a large area, and extends vertically from 2,000 to 2,500 metres
(6.500 to 8.125 feet) above the level of the sea. The principal localities of its habitat in the Cauca are :
in the forests of Mishmish, Guatica, E] Arrayanal, and on the eastern slopes of the Alto de Tatami. In
Antioquia it is found in the woods of the undulating mountains around Picora, Aguadas, Sonson and
Mesopotamia; in the mountains of EI Retiro, and on the Alto de San Miguel between Santa Barbara and
Caldas; in many places on the highlands of Santa Rosa de Osos, near San Pedro, on the banks of the Rio
Chico, and between Santa Rosa and E] Yarumal.

It is generally a common but very local species, growing abundantly in small isolated woods, and
then not to be found for many miles. It grows in damp shady woods upon trees near the ground, but also
upon Liana-like shrubs of Thibaudia and other Ericacee, in an average temperature of 14° to 16° Centi-
rade (57°.2 to 60°.8 Fahrenheit). In the Cauca and in the southern parts of Antioquia M. striatella
flowers in October and November, and in the north of Antioquia during May and June.

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Maspevatuia Torta Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. I, p. 110; Orcbidophile (Godefroy), vol. I.
(1883), p. 795.
Leaf 6 or 8 inches long, oblong-ovate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, much recurved, dark green,
narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, pale green spotted with crimson.

Peduncle, including pedicel, 3 or 4 inches Jong, slender, erect, with two or three sheathing bracts,
very pale green spotted with crimson ; flowering bract 2 inch long, 3-nerved, sheathing below, ovate and
apiculate above, pale greenish-brown.

Ovary about 3 inch long, with six rounded angles, whitish spotted with crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 4 inch, forming a wide gibbous tube, ovate-
triangular for about 8 inch, 5-nerved, semi-transparent, pale greenish-yellow, with red spots and dark red
nerves ; lateral sepals cohering for 1 inch, oblong-ovate, with 5 bifurcated nerves, bright red with dark
red nerves, and spotted externally with red ; all narrowing into slender, flattened, yellow tails, that of the
dorsal sepal 3 inch, and those of the lateral sepals } inch long.

Petals } inch long, oblong-ovate, thick and fleshy, broadly angled within on the anterior margin, with
viscid matter below the angle, apiculate, shining, pale yellow, with two crimson central lines.

Lip & inch long, cleft at the base, with a minute rounded nectary on each side, tongue-shaped, closely
covered with minute silver-white hairs, purple-crimson, with one central and two lateral dark purple
nerves, apex covered with small papille.

Column } inch long, pale green, edged and spotted on the foot with crimson, and having four or five
crimson lines down the inner surface, apex denticulate.

TERY little information can be gathered concerning Masdevallia torta, even the name
of its discoverer being unobtainable. It was first imported from Colombia for

Mr. Bull, and from his collection the specimens described in 1883 by Professor
Reichenbach in the Gardeners’ Chronicle were supplied. It appears still to be rather a
scarce and little-known species, and even to be confused with JZ. leontoglossa, although
a very slight examination of the two species would immediately prove their distinctness.

Tam informed by Consul Lehmann that he has found flowers of JZ. torta with longer
tails than those in the accompanying plate, and that in these flowers the tails are some-
times twisted, in this respect resembling the specimens described by Professor
Reichenbach, which suggested to him the name of “ torta.”

Consul Lehmann gives the habitat of this species in the following note :

Masdeeallia torta grows in dense and damp woods, upon trees which are thickly covered
with mosses, near El Retiro, in the department of Antioquia, at an elevation of 2,200 to
2,400 metres (7,150 to 7,800 feet) above the sea. It flowers in October and Noveinber.
The annual average temperature of this region is from 15° to 16° Centigrade (59° to
60-8 Fahrenheit).

F. C. Leamann.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petals, lip, and column, -in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3,
lip ;—sa, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column; all
enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA VELIFERA Rchb. f.

Maspevatiia verbena Rehb f. Gard. Chron, 1874, pt. I. p. 406 (nomen tantum) ; pt. IL, p. 985 1878,
pt. IL, p. 364 (errore vatifera) ; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409 (errore vilifera) ; 1887, pt. 1, p- 744,
fie. 142; Orchidophile (Godefroy) ISS. p. 543, with fig. p. 544 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. iW
(1889), p. 69.

Leaf 6 or 8 inches Jong and about 1 inch wide. oblong-lanceolate, very thick and rigid, apex obtusely
tridenticulate, very dark green.
_ terete, ascending from a joint at the base of the petiole, with two or

Pedunele about 3 inches long
flowering bract 1 inch long, sheathing below, apiculate, 3-nerved,

three sheathing bracts, bright green ;
pale green or yellowish, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary | inch lone. curved, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, bright green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 4 inch, forming a wide gibbous tube, free
portion # inch long, ovate, 3-nerved, ochre-yellow spotted with brown on the inner surface, tapering into
a slender tail about 2} inches Jong, orange, greenish at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for about
2 inches, oblong, stiffly reflexed, with 5 nerves, two of which bifurcate, brownish-yellow, deepening to
mahogany brown in the centre. shining as if varnished, tapering into slender tails about 14 inch long,
orange, creenish at the back.

Petals about } inch long, linear at the base, then oblong, angled on the anterior margin, apiculate,
pale vellow tinged with green.

Lip 4 inch long, broadly oblong near the base, and united to the curved foot of the column by a
very flexible hinge, the apex and anterior margins much reflexed, dark purple, covered with smal] rough
papilla, the central line greenish.

Column about % inch long, curved, broadly winged, pale green, the foot spotted with crimson, apex

creniate,

4 IS handsome and curious species was discovered in 1874 by the Belgian collector,
Patin, who sent specimens to Mr. B. S. Williams without recording its habitat.
The tirst plants which flowered in cultivation were imported for Mr. Bull by Shuttleworth,
who found it in abundance near Oceana, in the Province of Santander, Colombia. The
species most resembling J. relifera are M. elephanticeps, M. Mooreana and M. Peristeria,
especially in the rigid substantial texture of the flowers, the shape of the tube, and the
prominence of the nerves upon the outer surface. None of these, however, show the
peculiar shining brown colour of the lateral sepals so remarkable in J. velifera.

The name relifera signifies “ sail-bearer,” but Professor Reichenbach’s reason for
choosing it is scarcely apparent. The plant is still rare in cultivation, and I am
indebted to friends for specimens.

Explanation of Plate:
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3, lip :—3a, base of lip (much enlarged / ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and

section of leaf, vatural size.

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Masprvaniia Yavarrryessis Rodrig. Vellosia vol. I. (1891), p. 121.
Leaf 4 inches long. linear-oblong, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, dull green.

Peduncele, including the very short pedicel, about 34 inches long, terete, very slender, ascending from
the base of the petiole, dark green ; bract 4 inch long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, pale green.

Sepals cohering for ¢ inch, forming a campanulate tube, free portions very short, triangular, pure
white. each with three crimson streaks, greenish at the base, tapering into flattened yellow tails 4 inch
long.

Petals oblong-oval. angled on the anterior margin. white, apex obtusely tridenticulate.

Lip a little longer than the petals. oblong. with two lateral lobes, grooved in the centre, white, spotted
with crimson especially at the base, apex recurved, yellow.

Colunm equalling the petals, white, narrowly winged with crimson,

HE river Yauapery, in Brazil, from which this little plant receives its name, is a

tributary of the Rio Negro, running southward for nearly two hundred miles, and
joining the Rio Negro at about 2°. lat. by 62° W. long. The low banks, composed of
alluvium deposited by frequent floods, are covered with rank creeping vegetation, the
loose soil bound together by the roots of coarse grasses, and forming only at some
distance from the river a sufficient foundation for the growth of shrubs and low trees,
the outskirts of the dense forests which cover the surrounding country. Most of the
trees are thickly entangled with mosses and flowering creepers, hiding trunks and
branches, often killing the trees themselves, and forming immense masses of flowers and
foliage exquisitely varied in form and colouring. In very damp shady places upon the
eastern bank of the river, Masderallia Yauaperyensis was discovered by Senhor Barbosa
todriguez, growing among the mosses a few inches from the ground upon the trunks of
trees and especially upon the stems of lianas, or hanging in tufts by its clinging roots,
and flowering from January to March.

Senhor Rodriguez, the first explorer of the river Yauapery, was commissioned in 1884
by the Governor of Amazonas to undertake the subjugation of a tribe of Indians named
Krichanas, living upon the banks of the river and for many years the terror and scourge of
peaceful settlers. During two years he lived among them, frequently in danger of his life,
penetrating almost to the source of the river and collecting valuable specimens along
both banks. By his courage and wise judgment he gained the confidence of the Indians,
inducing them to give up their wild forest life, and leaving them comparatively civilised,
and friendly towards the agricultural and fishing population of the banks of the Rio Negro.

The temperature of the habitat of IZ. Vauaperyensis is 26° to 27° Centigrade (about
78 to S4 Fahrenheit), and the elevation is GO métres (195 feet) above the level of the sea.
The discovery of this plant so far inland, almost in the heart of South America, in the
low alluvial region of the bed of the Amazon, throws a new light upon the geographical
distribution of Masdevallias, hitherto considered to be a genus of mountain plants,
chiefly restricted to a high elevation and a cool temperature in the mountains of Central
and South America.

For the accompanying drawing, as well as for the above information, I am indebted
to Senhor Rodriguez, who, by his letters, and by forwarding to me a copy of his interest-
ing work “Vellosia, Contribuigses do Museu Botanico do Amazonas,” has done his
utmost to render me assistunce. His original description of the plant is as follows :

“Caule secundirio nullo; folio oblanccolato, erecto, subacuto; scapo Solio longitudine ;
sepntlix connatis, cupuliformibus, cum aristis longe-productis, recurvis ; petalis carnosis,
aitice canaticilatis, postice convevis, unidentatis in marginibus externis, apice truncatis,
apiculatis ; labelle recurve, unguiculato, suleato, lateraliter in median bicalloso 5 gynostemio
erecta, mentoso.”

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SECTION IV.

CUCULLATA® Rehb. f.

FPVHE plants of this Section are distinguished by the extreme shortness of the pedicel,
Which causes the large cucullate bract to conceal the ovary and the base of the
flower. All the Known species are in cultivation.

3 species figured :

Masdevallia corniculata Rehb. f:
cucullata Lindl.
macrura Rehb f.

(Also LW. calyptrata Kriuzl. (errore eclyptrata) Gard. Chron, 1895, pt. IL, p. 577.
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Maspevanura corxicctata Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1878, pt. L, p. 725 1881, pt. II., p. 236; Veitch
Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p- 37.

Var. inflata, Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 37 ;=Masdevallia inflata Rehb. f. Gard. Chron.
ISS]. pt. IL, p. 716; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1881, p. 172.

Leaf $ or 9 inches long, about 14 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, margins
reflexed, bright green, narrowing below into a slender, grooved, pale green petiole.

Pedunele 3 or 4 inches long, terete, ascending from a joint near the base of the petiole, pale green ;
bract very Jarze. concealing the ovary and the base of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, pale green, with a

rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary about 4 inch long, triangular, with three crenate wings, bright green, sometimes spotted with

crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 3 inch, forming a wide inflated tube, free
portion triangular, very short, with three nerves, two of which bifurcate ; lateral sepals cohering for about
14 inch, oblong-ovate, with three carinate nerves, two of which bifureate ; all bright yellow, spotted with
reddish-brown, and terminating in slender yellow tails, 2 or 24 inches long.

Petals about 4 inch long. linear-lanceolate, acutely angled on both margins, pale yellow, apex
attenuate, prolonged, reflexed, orange-yellow, with numerous small papille.

Lip J inch long, united to the curved foot of the column by a very flexible hinge, grooved at the base,
with a concave nectary on each side, pandurate, with two short longitudinal wings, pale yellow, with small
pink spots, apex rough with minute papill, orange-yellow.

Column nearly } inch Jong, winged, apex slightly crenate, white, spotted on the foot with pink.

ASDEVALLIA CORNICULATA was discovered in 1877 by a collector sent out to
Colombia by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, who supplied specimens from their
plants for Professor Reichenbach’s description in 1878. Consul Lehmann has not yet
found this species in its native habitat, and the only information which he can give con-
cerning it is that “it originates from the higher regions of the Andes, at an elevation of
2.500 to 3,000 metres” (8,125 to 9,760 feet). The specimen represented in the accompa-
nying Plate affords an excellent example of the long, horn-shaped petals, which suggested
the very appropriate name of “ corniculata.”

In the year 1881 a variety of ./. corniculata, imported from Colombia, appeared in
the collection of Mr. Bull, and was at first named by Professor Reichenbach as a distinct
species, JL. inflata. It has not been thought necessary to give a drawing of this variety,

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a Plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip ;—3a, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column, all

enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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a rarer plant in cultivation than the type, from which it differs chiefly in being of a paler,
clearer shade of yellow, and scarcely spotted, the internal structure being identical. One
specimen, kindly sent to me by Mr. F. W. Moore, from the Royal Botanic Gardens at
Glasnevin, showed when fresh, very faintly coloured spots upon the outer surface,
similar in size and colour to those of the usual well-known form.

The original collectors of these two interesting plants appear to have sent home vo
tield-notes as to locality or elevation, and it is to be regretted that no detailed informa-
tion can be given. Consul Lehmann, however, suspects the existence of WM. ecorniculata
among the mountains of Antioquia, in a locality which he proposes to visit shortly, and
it is hoped, therefore, that our present scanty knowledge may be added to at no very
remote date.

MASDEVALLIA CUCULLATA Lindl.

Maspevauiia ctuctiiata Lindl. Orch. Lindl. p. 4 (1846) ; Gard. Chron, 1878, pt. I., p. 72 (under M.
corniculata) ;~ 1883, pt. L, p. 492; 1886, pt. IL, p. 7475 Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 660 ;
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 38.

Leaf 9 or 10 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, margins often recurved,
bright green, narrowing below into a slender crooved petiole, pale green, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 4 or 5 inches Jong, ascending from a joint about an inch above the base of the petiole,
terete, slender, with two or three bracts, pale green ; flowering bract about 1 inch long, entirely con-
cealing the ovary and the base of the perianth, ovate, acuminate, with a rudimentary bud within at the
base, pale green, sometimes spotted with crimson.

Ovary about 2 inch long, triangular, with crenate wings and six deep grooves, very pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about ¥ inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous
beneath, pale green, and having within at the base a rounded shining excrescence, dark crimson, free
portion % inch long, triangular, with three nerves, two of which bifurcate near the base ; lateral sepals
cohering for }, inch, free portions 3 inch long, ovate-triangular, with three nerves, two of which bifurcate
near the base, all claret-crimson, and tapering into very slender tails 14 or 2 inches long, dark crimson,

grecnish at the back.

Petals about 4 inch long, linear-oblong, angled on both margins, white, apex obtuse, reflexed, angled,
and covered on the inner surface with crimson papille.

Lip | inch Tong, oblong. grooved down the centre, with a small nectary on each side at the base, and
two loncitudinal keels on the anterior portion, crimson, paler in the centre, apex reflexed, dark crimson-
purple, covered with smal] papille.

Column 4} inch long, narrowly winged, apex entire, white, the foot and inner surface bright crimson.

ets species was first described in 1846 by Dr. Lindley, who quotes the field-note of
Mons. Linden, its discoverer, as follows: “ An epiphyte from the thick forests of
Fusagasuga, in the province of Bogota, at the height of 7,200 feet.”

Although discovered as long ago as 1842, 1. eueullata was not known in cultivation
until 1883, when living plants were brought home by Mr. Carder, and first flowered
in the collection of Mr. Shuttleworth. It has an extensive geographical distribution,
having been found by numerous collectors in different Departments of the Republic of
Colombia. Consul Lehmann, in the following note, gives several localities in which he
has himself found the plant :

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a Plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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2a, petal, side ;—3, lip ;—3a, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of

column; all enlarged ;

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Masdevallia cucullata comes from Colombia, where it is very irregularly distributed
over a large area. I have observed it in the following localities:—in the Eastern Andes
of Bogota, on the western slopes of the Alto de las Oséras in the Department of
Tolima, and from here northwards on the western declivities of the Paramos de
Sumapaz, Andabobo, Santa-Rosa and Sibaté in the Department of Cundinamarca. On
the highlands of Antioquia, near the town of El Retiro and on the Alto de San Miguel.
In the Western Andes of Popayan, upon the eastern slopes of the Cerro Munchique.
In the Eastern Andes of Pasto, on the descent from the Paramo del Bordoncillo into
the valley of Sebondoy, and also in the vicinity of the village of Putumayu, I observed,
in the year 1880, a AZasdevallia which, although not in flower, appeared to be identical
in all its characteristics with JZ, cucullata. The plants were extremely well developed.

Masdevallia cucullata grows in dense and very damp woods, on the trunks of trees
near the ground, and also upon the ground itself where deep layers of decayed leaves
have accumulated. The elevation of the localities in which it occurs varies from
2,000 to 2,600 métres (6,500 to 8,450 feet), with a temperature of 13° to 16°.5 Centigrade
(about 55° to 62° Fahrenheit). The climate is remarkable for heavy and constant rains,
and an atmosphere highly charged with moisture throughout the year. A really dry
season, during which all rain ceases, never occurs in those regions. In most localities
M. cucullata flowers during the months of October and November, but in the Bogota
districts the flowers develope in January and February. Although seed-capsules are
very commonly met with, Af. cucullata is not an abundant species.

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MASDEVALLIA MACRURA Rechb. f.

Maspevatiaa Macrura Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. 1, p. 240; 1877, pt. I, p. 42, fig. 2; 1881, pt.
IL, p. 136, fig. 65 ; Linnwa, XLT. (1877). p. 115 De Puydt, Les Orchidées, p. 100 ; Orchidophile
(Godefroy), 1883, p. 642; Lindenia, vol. TIT. (1887), t. 113.

Leaf 10 or 12 inches long, 2 or 24 inches wide. oblong, carinate, obtusely tridenticulate, erect, bright
creen, narrowing below into a slender petiole, deeply grooved, pale green, with large membranous sheaths
at the base.

Peduncle 9 or 10 inches long, terete, ascending from a joint at the base of the petiole, with one or
two sheathing bracts. pale green ; flowering bract 3 inch long, 5-nerved, apiculate, sheathing below, entirely
covering the ovary, often with a small bud within at the base, pale green.

Ovary about % inch long, terete, with six indistinct grooves, pale green, sometimes spotted with brown.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a wide tube, oblong-ovate,
z-nerved, whitish at the base, then orange-vellow, shaded and spotted with reddish-crimson ; lateral sepals
cohering for nearly 1 inch, oblong-oyate, with four strongly carinate nerves, three of which bifurcate.
dotted with blackish-erimson papilla. orange-vellow deeply shaded with crimson, all tapering into slender
flattened vellow tails about 4 inches long.

Petals about 2 inch Jong, oblong, curved, fleshy, anterior margin much thickened, posterior margin
acutely angled. apex very obtuse. bright yellow with brown spots.

Lip 4 inch long, oblong, fleshy, with two deep nectaries near the base, and two longitudinal keels,
yellow spotted with dark crimson, apex reflexed, much thickened, orange-yellow with a few dark spots.
rough with papille arranged in three obscure lines.

Column about } inch Jong, winged. apex entire or slightly crenate, yellow, closely spotted on the foot
with crimson.

WN ASDEVALLLA MACRURA was discovered in 1871 by Roezl, near Sonson, in the

province of Antioquia, and was described in 1874 by Professor Reichenbach from
dried specimens. The first living plants were imported in 1876 by Mr. Shuttleworth,
and first flowered in the collection of Mr. Bull in 1877. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle,
1877, pt. 1, p. 12, Professor Reichenbach states that a short-tailed variety was collected
by Patin, a Belgian traveller; and a gigantic variety is mentioned by Roezl in the
following account of the town of Sonson, taken from Godefroy’s “ Orchidophile,” 1888,
p. 642, from which we learn that Sonson isa little town of 4—5,000 inhabitants, situated in
the State of Antioquia, on a small tributary of the Rio Cauca, on the boundary, and a
little to the north of, the State of the same name. This town deserves to be called the
city of Masdevallias, for Roezl found there, on the roof of one house, as many as four
species of this genus, growing with extraordinary vigour ; and in the neighbourhood of
the town more than twenty-five species besides, growing at altitudes varying from 2,000
to 2,500 metres (6,500 to 8,125 feet). Roezl adds that the local name for AZ, macrura_is

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“La Viuda,”-—“The Widow”; but, according to Wallis, this name is given to W.
a much darker flower. In 1871, AZ macrura was so abundant in this locality,
native children collected it for Roezl in such quantities, that he was oblige

cucullata,
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more than a thousand plants. The plant grows most commonly upon great blocks of

granite, scattered over the ground, and thickly covered with moss. Rain is v ery frequent,
and almost every morning the fog is intensely thick, with a temperature, according to
Roez!'s account, of five or six degrees below zero Centigrade, or nine to eleven deerees
of frost Fahrenheit. Consul Lehmann, however, informs me that. this statement. is
erroneous, and that the lowest temperature registered in the neighbourhood of Souson
is only 31° or 30° Fahrenheit, or one or two degrees of frost.

Roezl once received, among a number of plants of W. macrnra, a specimen of gigantic
size, the leaves measuring two feet long by four inches wide, and very thick. The only
flower upon the plant was also of unusual dimensions, measuring nearly twelve inches
across. It must be presumed that this measurement was from tip to tip of the extended
tails. Owing to the faded condition of this flower, Roezl could not decide whether it
Was a distinct species or only a variety of AZ maerura, which it appeared to resemble
exactly in shape and colour. Even by offering a large reward to the young inhabitants
of Sonson, he never succeeded in obtaining another specimen of it.

Masdevallia ellipes, M. erinacea, M. molossus, M. saltatrix, M. Benedicti, Mo Roezli,
and other species, were found by Roezl growing in the neighbourhood of Sonson under
exactly the same conditions as AL, macrura.

Consul Lehmann adds the following information :

Masdevallia macrura grows on trees, or sometimes on the ground among copse or brush-
wood, in dense and damp woods, on the Alto de San Miguel and above Envigado, in the
department of Antioquia, at an elevation of 2,300 to 2,600 metres (7,475 to 8,450 feet).
It has been also observed near Sonson and other parts of Antioquia. This species
flowers in October and November in its natural habitat.

The annual average temperature of the region ranges between 14 and 15 degrees
Centigrade (57° and 59 Fahrenheit). There are two rainy and two dry seasons during the
year; the first rainy season lasting from the end of March until the end of June; the
second from the end of September until December. The hygrometric average is between
69° and 70° per cent. during the dry months, and 76°—78° per cent. during the wet ones.

F. C. LEHMANN.

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3, lip ;—8a, back of base of lip, showing nectaries, much enlarged ;—A, column ;—da, apex of column ;
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FISSAL Rehb. f.

Qa one species of this Section is in cultivation, and I can ascertain the names of
Consul Lehmann has, in his Herbarium, a few specimens of allied

but two others.
The dorsal sepal is not united to the lateral sepals, and this

plants—unnamed.
peculiarity suggested Reichenbach’s name for the group, Fissce, or cleft.

1 species figured :

Masdevallia picturata Rehb. f. (=M. meleagris Rchb.f.)

Not in cultivation :

M. faleago Rehb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878 ), p. 16.
uncifera Rehb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878 ), p. 16.

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Maspevanura piercrata Rehb. f. Xen. Orch. I. (1858), p. 198, pl. 75, fig. 1 (as M. meleagris) ; Otia
Bot. Hamb. p. 16 (1878); Orchidophile (Godefroy), vol. I. (1881), p. 193; Gard. Chron. 1882, pt.
1, p.10; Trans. Linn. Soe., vol. IL., pt. 13, p. 281, Bot. Roraima Exped. 1884, E. F. im. Thurn.

M. meleaeris Rehb. f. Xen. Orch. I. (1858), p. 198, pl. 75, fig. 1=M. picturata Rehbb. f., Otia Bot. Hamb.
p. 16 (1878), non. MW. meleagris Lindl. Ann. nat. hist. vol. XV. (1845), p. 257.

Leaf 2 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, obtusely tridenticulate, fleshy, narrowing below into a slender

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grooved petiole sheathed at the base, dull green, the older leaves spotted with dull brown.

Peduncle about 2} inches long, slender, terete, erect, with one or two sheathing bracts, pale green ;

flowering bract 3 inch long, apiculate, ovate, almost concealing the ovary, pale yellowish-green.

Ovary 4 inch long, with six strongly erenate wings, bright green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal entirely free from the lateral sepals, nearly 4 inch long, oval-oblong, 3-nerved,
very pale vellow, with numerous velvety crimson spots, terminating in a slender bristle-like tail 14 inch
long, hrownish-crimson ; lateral sepals cohering only near the base, about } inch long, oblong-ovate,
3-nerved. nerves carinate without, pale yellow, bright orange at the base, spotted with velvety crimson,
terminating in slender bristle-like tails 1 inch long, brownish-crimson.

Petals } inch long, ligulate, with a fleshy process within the anterior margin near the base, apex
acutely tridenticulate, the central tooth prolonged, pale yellow.

Lip about 2 inch long. united by a hinge to the foot of the column, grooved at the base, with two

lateral lobes. apex with three rounded lines, orange-yellow, spotted with reddish-brown.

Column nearly 4 inch long, slender at the base, winged, apex green and crimson.

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i) SSID ee PICTURATA was discovered in July 1850, by Wagener, near

Caracas in Venezuela, at an elevation of 6,000 feet, and was also found at Tovar in
1854 by Fendler. Professor Reichenbach appears at one time to have considered this
species to be identical with MW. meleagris Lindl., for he published in 1858 a drawing of
M. picturata under that name (Xen. Orch. I. p. 198, pl. 75, fig. 1). Later, however, he
explains that he had never seen Lindley’s ML. meleagris, and that the plant represented
in his Plate was IM. picturata, not the true Mf. meleagris of Lindley (Otia Bot. Hamb.
1878, p. 16). The latter plant—of which the original specimen, discovered in 1845 by
Hartweg between the Paramo de San Fortunato and Fusagasuga, Bogota, is preserved
in the Royal Herbarium, Kew—is most distinct from JZ. picturata, the leaves being more
rounded, on a slender petiole, and the flower-stem nearly five inches in height. The
flower is differently shaped, and the dorsal sepal is marked with narrow and regular bands
of purple. The strongest point of difference is perhaps the slender wingless ovary, the
ovary of JZ. picturata having, as will be seen in the accompanying Plate, fig. la, six
remarkably waved or crenate wings, a characteristic not present in so great a degree in
any other species yet known.

M. picturata is especially interesting in having a very remarkable geographical dis-
tribution. of which the extreme limits, as at present known, are: On the south-east

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a Plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1. petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3,
lip s—4. column ;—4a, apex of column ;—al/ enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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Mount Roraima, on the boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela; on the nor

the mountains of Caracas ; on the south and west Cali and Tolima in the W : os ae
Central Cordilleras of Colombia, and Frontino in Antioquia ; ai
Costa Rica.

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Specimens from these localities vary greatly in size and depth of colour. Those
collected upon the upper slopes of Mount Roraima at an elevation of about 6 000 Ret
during the “ Roraima Expedition” of 1884-5, flowering in November and Deconher re
less than two inches in height, the colour, as far as can be judged from dried flowers
being much the same as in the plant here figured, while the apex of the leaves is mies
sharply denticulate, with the central tooth longer than the lateral ones. Some of these
dried specimens were sent in 1885 by Mr. Everard im Thurn to the British Museum of
Natural History, where Mr. H. N. Ridley, then a member of the Botanical Staff, identified
them with JZ. picturata Rehb. f.

On the western slopes of the Western Cordilleras of Colombia exactly similar plants
have been found by Consul Lehmann, growing on trees in thick damp forests at an
elevation of 5,850 feet, and flowering in April. Larger specimens were also collected by
him near Tolima, at an elevation of 6,500 feet, growing on trees and often on dead wood
in the damp forests of the upper Rio Cabrera, flowering in January. These plants,
although the flowers are of darker colouring—the brown spots being almost suffused over
the surface of the sepals—approach most nearly the variety here represented, a plant
found near Caracas by Mr. Edward Wallace, of Colchester, in 1855, at an elevation of
about 6,000 feet, growing on the stems and lower branches of trees.

Plants from Frontino in Antioquia, also found growing upon forest trees (elevation
2,500 feet), are intermediate between those from Mount Roraima and Cali, and those from
Tolima and Caracas, closely resembling plants found in Costa Rica by Shuttleworth in
1883. The largest form seems to be the specimen found by Fendler in Venezuela in
1854, now preserved in the Kew Herbarium.

A nearly allied species, at present un-named, has been found by Consul Lehmann
in the mountains of Cauca, growing on trees in rather thick forests above Chapa on the
Tambo at an elevation of 6,500 feet. The plant is only about one inch in height, and has
white flowers with yellow spots and an orange lip. A single dried specimen of this little
plant is preserved in the Boissier Herbarium at Chambésy, Geneva.

There is but little variation in the temperature of the different localities in which
M. picturata is found, the annual average being from 59° to about 67° Fahrenheit.

Owing to the delicacy of the species, many attempts to import it alive have totally
failed. Of four thousand plants collected in 1885 by Mr. Edward Wallace, with which
he started on his homeward voyage, only forty reached Europe alive. Messrs. Sander of
St. Albans have also succeeded in importing living plants, and the first flowers seen in
England were those in their collection described by Professor Reichenbach in 1882, in

the Gardeners’ Chronicle, pt. I. p. 10.

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MINUTE Rchb. f.

A SOMEWHAT miscellaneous Section, containing small species which cannot cor-
rectly be classed in any other group.

4 species figured :

Masdevallia attenuata Rehb. f.
nidifica Rehb. f.
ophioglossa Rehb. f. (not in cultivation. )
Wendlandiana Rehb. f.

Not in cultivation :

M. Chontalensix Itch. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 17.
Hareola Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1884, pt. I., p. 688.
hians Lind et Rehb. f. Bonplandia IT, (1854), p. 288.
Lansbergii Rehb. f. Neder Kruidk. Arch. IV. (1859), p. 317.
minuta Rehb. f. Lindl. Ann. Nat. Hist. XI. (1543), p. 396.
ophioglossa Rehb. f. (see Plate.)
pumila Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. II. (18388), p. 6, t. 108.
pusiola Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. I., p. 140.

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MASDEVALLIA ATTENUATA Rchb. f.

Masprvaniia arresvata Rehb. tf) Gard. Chron, 1871, p. 834; 1881, pt. IL, p. 236; Bot. Mag. t. 6273
(IST): Godm. et Saly. Biologia Centr. Amer., Bot. Hemsley, vol. ITT. (1882-1886), p. 207.

Leaf 5 inches long. linear-linceolate, coriaceous, apex tridenticulate, narrowing below into a slender
grooved petiole sheathed at the base, green.

Pedunele about 2 inches lone, terete, slender, ascending from the base of the petiole, with two or
three sheathing bracts. pale green, tinged with brown ; flowering bract 4 inch long, membranous,

aprendate. sheathing below, pale brownish.

Ovary.) ineh long. with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sepals all cohering almost equally, forming a narrow tube, gibbous below, 3-nerved, free portion of
the dorsal sepal ovate-triangular, white, with three crimson streaks, and terminating in a slender terete
tail nearly } inch long: free portion of lateral sepals oblong-ovate, white, with two crimson streaks, and
terminating in slender terete tails 2 inch long; base of the tube yellow, tails orange, greenish at the
back.

Petals a little more than inch Jong, oblong-lanceolate, with a wide angle on the anterior margin and
an angled keel. white.

Lip a little longer than the petals, base thickened and united by a hinge to the foot of the column,
oblong-cordate, with two longitudinal angled keels, margins crenate, white tinged with pale vellow, apex
a minute orange cushion, with crimson dots.

Column shorter than the petals, winged, white and pale pink, broadly edged with crimson, apex

denticulate.

N representing this plant as Wasderallia attenuata, it must be confessed that it is not
exactly the same as that figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 6273) under that
name, and in order to show the differences between the two, I have reproduced a
portion of that Plate at figs. 6 and 7. The flower here shows no crimson streaks, and
the shape of the petal (fig. 7) is different, lacking the marginal keel and angle (fig. 2)
remarkable in all the specimens which T have examined. The lip in both flowers is
much the same in structure, and the two plants can, perhaps, hardly be specifically
separated, The form represented in the Botanical Magazine appears to be very rare
in cultivation, even if it now exists at all, for, in all the collections of Masdevallias—in
this country and on the continent—whose owners have generously placed specimens at
ny disposal, the plant which I figure is grown as J. attenuata. Nowhere have I been
able to obtains or to hear of, flowers similar to those drawn by Mr. Fitch for the Botanical
Magazine, in S77, which are, no doubt, the original form of the species named and
deseribed by Reichenbach in 1871. He states that the habitat of AZ, attenuata is Costa
Rica, whence it was imported by Messrs. Veiteh.

Explanation of Plate :

Fig. 1. petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip ;—4. column ;—1, apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5. apex and section of leaf, natural size ;—
(, flower and leaf copied from t. 6273 of the Botanical Magazine ;—7, petal, lip, and column, copied from

fig. 2 of the same Plate.

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MASDEVALLIA NIDIFICA Rchb. f.
Maspevannia xipirica Rehb. ft. Otia Bot. Hamb, (1878). p. 185 Gard. Chron, 1879, pt. IL, p. 456}
ISS], pt. IL. p. 836; 1888, pt TL, p. 628.

Leaf 14 or 2 inches long. oval-oblong, leathery. apex tridenticulate, narrowing below in a very slender
erooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele about 14 inch long. terete, very slender. ascending from within the sheath at the base of the
petiole. dull greenish-crimson ; flowering bract about. 4, inch long, membranous, sheathing, apiculate, pale
yrecn.

Ovary 4, inch long. with six erenate wings. pale green spotted with crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4, inch, forming a roundly inflated tube, gibbous
beneath. 3-nerved, cucullate, rotundate, whitish, almost transparent, with a few small crimson spots on
each side and rich crimson nerves, and terminating ina very slender dark crimson tail about 3 inch long ;
lateral sepals cohering for about i; inch, S-nerved. ovate, pale transparent sparkling yellow, with one

broad reddish-erimson streak in the centre, and 2 few minute crimson spots, and terminating in very
slender pale yellow tails about 3 inch Jong ; all the sepals covered on the inner surface with microscopic

velvety hairs.

L inch Jong. linear-oblong, with a strong keel on the anterior margin, whitish, nearly

Petals 4

transparent, streaked with crimson.

Lip a little longer than the petals, pandurate, curved, united to the curved foot of the column by a
Hexible hinge, vellow, with three central crimson streaks.

Column a little longer than the petals, narrowly winged, whitish or pale pink, marked and edged with

crimson, apex entire,

VILE first description of Masderallia nidifica was published by Professor Reichenbach
in 1878, from dried specimens and a drawing sent to him by Consul Lehmann, who
discovered the plant in 1877, in the Cordilleras of Quito, Ecuador. It grows in dense
masses on the trunks and branches of trees in damp open woods, flowering profusely
during the heaviest rains of February, throughout March and April, and again, even
more abundantly, in September, the driest month of the year.

There appear to be many varieties of M. nidifica, which differ chiefly in size, some
being even smaller than the plant here represented, and others attaining a height of
three inches.

The best authority upon the habitat of this species is Consul Lehmann, its
discoverer, Who says :

Masdevallia nidifica Ws a very extensive ceographical distribution, ranging from Costa Rica, through
Colombia and Ecuador, to the north of Peru. Its vertical range is also remarkable, extending from 500
to 2.000 metres (1.625 to 6,500 feet) ubove the level of the sea. I know only one other species of
Masdevallia which, found chiefly in Colombin, extends also into Costa Rica. I have found Af. nidifica in
the following localities :

In Costa Rien :—At La Palma nnd San Isidro between the two volcanoes of Irazi and Barba, in
December 1881.

In Colombia :-—At La Bramadora, near Yarumal, and at Frontino, at 1,200 to 1,600 metres (3,900 to

5.200 feet); at Cajamarca in the western Andes of Roldanillo; on the western slopes of the Cerro

Explanation of Plate :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—Ia. section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner wide ;—

3. lip :- 4, column :—da, apex of colunm ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA NIDIFICA,

Munchique near Popayin ; and at San Pablo on the road from Barbacoas to Tuquerres, at 1,200 to 1300
métres (3,900 to 4,875 feet).

In Ecuador :—At Anque on the way from Quito to Nanegal ; at Cansacoto, Milligalli, and) Silute,
between the Cerro de Corazon and Santo Domingo de los Colorados, at 1,400 to 2,000 metres (4,550 to
6,500 feet) ; at Balsapamba between Babahoyo and Chimborazo ; at Puente de Chimbo, on the road trom
Yaguachi to Alansi; at Chacayacu, on the way from Naranjal to Cuenea; and at El Cucho between
Santa Rosa and Zaruma, at an elevation of 500 to 600 metres (1.625 to 1,950 feet).

The specimens first named by Reichenbach were collected at Anque and Cansacoto near Quito, at
1,400 to 2,000 métres, the highest elevation of the species, where plants are often found twice as large as
those growing in Costa Rica, the Howers being more substantial, pale vellow, marked with broad dark
chocolate-brown streaks on both dorsal and lateral sepals. The lip and petals also differ somewhat from
those of flowers growing at the lowest elevation, which are small and membranous, pale yellow, faintly
spotted with small reddish dots on the outside of the lateral sepals. Specimens from Costa Rica vary
slightly from the Colombian plants, and considerably from those found in Ecuador.

M. nidifica grows on trees and also on walls of rock. The climate is always damp, and as there are
but few days without rain during the year, the atmosphere is saturated with moisture.

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MASDEVALLIA OPHIOGLOSSA Rechb. f.

MASDEVALIIA ormtecniossa Reb. f Otia Bot. Hamb. (18c8). p-. ine

Leaf nearly 2 inches long. oblong-linecolate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into

a slender grooved petiole. sheathed at the base.

Pedunele about 2) inches lone

apientate, sheathing the base of the ovary, pale brownish-green.

_ terete, slender, pale green, ascending from the sheath at the base of
the petiole : braet )\, inel lone.
Ovary vervo minute, with six erenate keels, pale green.
Sepals cohering for nearly 2 ineh, forming a narrow tube, gibbous below, free portion very minute,

s

triangular, white. pale vellow at the base, terminating in slender pale vellow tails about 4 inch Jong.
Petals very minute. lincar-lineeolate, angled on the anterior margin, white.

Lipa little longer than the petals, united by a hinge to the curved foot of the column, cordate-oblong,

narrowed towards the apex. with two pointed lateral lobes, white.

* Columna clavata.” Rehb. ¢.

AY ASDEVALLLA OPHIOGLOSSA was discovered in 1877, on the Western Andes

of Quito, by Consul Lehmann, who sent dried specimens to Professor Reichenbach
to be named and deseribed. This species has never been in cultivation, nor has any
drawing of it hitherto been published, and we are indebted to Mr. Lehmann for the
accompanying Plate. as well as for information respecting its habitat. He found the
plant in Ecuador, growing on steep walls of yoleanic rock in thick damp woods near
Quito, and also near Silante and Canzacoto on the western slopes of the Cerro del
Corazon. at an clevation of 1,800 to 2,100 métres (5,850 to 6,825 feet). It is not an
uncommon plant, and flowers from the middle of January to the end of March, some-
times in great profusion. In the Boissier Herbarium there are fine specimens found in
the same locality by Consul Lehmann, and named by him var. maxima.

The species most nearly allied to JZ. ophioglossa are M. Wendlandiana and

Mo pumila, of which the latter is not at present in cultivation.
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Explanation of Plate, from a drawing by Consul Lehmann :
Fig. 1. petal. dip. and column ;—2, petal :—3, lip ;—3a, back of lip ; all much enlarged.

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MASDEVALLIA WENDLANDIANA Rehb. f.

Maspevariia Wespiaxpiaxa Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. 1, p. 174 5 1888, pt. I., p. 563 ; 1889,
pt. TL. p. oT: Orchidophile (Godetroy) ISSS, p. 259; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 72.

Leaf about 2 inches long, linear, coriaceous, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a
erooved petiole sheathed at the base.

Pedunele a little longer than the leaves, very slender, terete, with two sheathing bracts, very pale
ereen, ascending from within the sheath at the base of the petiole ; flowering bract 4 inch long, mem-
branous. apiculate, sheathing below, pale brownish-green.

Ovary nearly } inch long, with six grooves, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the Jateral sepals for about | inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous
below, tree portion oblong-triangular, 3-nerved, narrowing into a flattened tail nearly 3 inch long ; lateral
sepals cohering for about 4 inch. free portion triangular, very minute, 3-nerved, tapering into flattened
tails nearly | inch long, white, streaked below with rose-purple, tails tipped with pale yellow.

Petals a little more than } inch long, oblong, apiculate, slightly thickened and angled on the anterior
margin, white.

Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong, grooved, united to the foot of the column by a flexible
hinge. with two longimdinal keels near the centre, dull white, semi-transparent, with minute crimson spots,

apex vellow spotted with crimson.

Column not quite so Jong as the petals, white, margined with crimson, apex denticulate, foot crimson.

M ASDEVALLIA WENDLANDIANA was imported by Mr. F. Sander from Fron-

tino, in Antioquia, and was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1887.
I have no information as to the elevation or temperature of its habitat, but in cultivation
it is found to require greater heat than most Masdevallias, with an equal amount of
moisture. It appears to be very nearly allied to JL. pumila, M. tubulosa, and M. minuta,
and may ultimately prove to be identical with at least one of these species.

Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a plant at Newhbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3, lip ;—4, column ;—
diay apex of column ;—A, apex and section of leaf, a// enlarged,

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MUSCOSA5.

VP OST. if not all, of the species grouped by Reichenbach with J. mescosa are now
z formed into a new Genus (Scaphosepalim Rolfe.) and T can ascertain none which
ean be classed with it. Until, therefore, further discoveries have been made with
regard to these rather obscure plants, no final decision as to their Section can be

arrived at.

1 species figured :

Masdevallia muscosa Rehb. f.

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MASDEVALLIA MUSCOSA Rechb. f.

Maspevatiia muscosa Rehb, f. Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. I., p. 460; 1881, pt. IL, p. 336 ; 1887, pt. L,
p. S36; pt. IL, p. 522; Amn. Bot. vol. T. (1887-8), p. 237, pl. XII. ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V.
(S89), p. 54.

g, very leathery, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a slender
erooved petiole, sheathed at the base, dull green tinged with purple, the upper surface covered with minute

Leaf about 2 inches long, oval-oblong

rounded papille.

Pedunele 4 or 5 inches long, terete, ascending from within the sheath at the base of the petiole,
hearin several flowers in succession, with two or three closely sheathing brownish bracts, pale green
covered with long mossy hairs, having each a minute viscid tip; flowering bract ,%; inch long, membranous,
pale brown,

Ovary 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, greenish, covered with short stiff hairs, the short terete
pedicel being smooth,

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clubbed at the tip ; lateral sepals cohering for } inch, triangular-oblong for } inch, 3-nerved, terminating
in slender reflexed tails about Linch Jong, clubbed at the tip; all pale yellow with darker yellow tails.

Petals nearly | inch long, linear, with an angle on the upper margin near the base, apex rounded and
thickened, curving forward so as to meet in front of the column, yellow, with a red-brown central streak.

Lip about | inch Jong, united to the curved foot of the column by a very flexible hinge, linear at the

hase. with a rounded central ridge or cushion, then widening into a shell-like blade, velvety within, the
margins ineurved and set with long stiff hairs, the apex a small rounded lobe; pale yellow, the central
ridge orange with red spots, the blade half vellow, half maroon-purple.

Column much shorter than the petals, winged, the anthers pointing backwards and downwards, pale
ereen. apex brown,

FPS curious plant was discovered near San Domingo, by Shuttleworth, when collect-

ing for Mr. Bull in the Central Cordillera of Tolima, Colombia. The covering of
mossy hairs upon the stem, peculiar to the species, suggested to Professor Reichenbach
the name muscosa, or mossy, and is probably intended to prevent crawling insects from
making their way up the stem to reach the flower. A still more remarkable characteristic
is the sensitive lip, which closes upon the curved petals when the central part is
touched, imprisoning any insect alighting upon it, and holding it forcibly as in a trap.
There is no contrivance for destroying intrusive insects and retaining them as nourish-
ment for any part of the plant, and they can only be intended to escape and carry away
the anthers from one flower to another. The incurved margins of the lip are edged with
stiff sharp hairs, effectually guarding the egress in that direction, and a fly, in attempting

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fie. 1. petal. lip, and column, showing the lip closed ;—1Ja, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip:—4. column ;—da, apex of column ;—4b, column with the anthers removed ; al/ enlarged ;—5, apex

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to escape trom its prison, would more easily force its way out from the upper side
probably dislodging the anthers in its struggles. The same fly, with the anthers adherin

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to it, alighting upon the lip of a second flower and again imprisoned, must, by its move-
ments, bring the anthers in contact with the viscid stigmatic surface, to which some
portion of the pollen-grains would attach themselves. The lip closes of itself at dusk
and opens again in the morning, showing that the insect designed for the fertilisation of
the flower is a diurnal one. When the lip has been made to close by a light touch upon

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thirty minutes, unless forcibly opened and held down: after that period it gently re-opeus

It should be noticed that the anthers are inserted upon the apex of the column the
reverse way to that of all known species of Masdera//ia, the pollinia pointing backwards
and downwards, so that the rostellum is the most prominent point of the column.

The sensitive nature of the lip was first remarked by Mr. Bean, of the Orchid depart-
ment in the Royal Gardens, Kew. It is well described in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle”
for June 25th, 1887, and still better by Professor Oliver—with execllent drawings—in
the “ Annals of Botany” vol. I. (1887), p. 237. i

The upper surface of the leaves is covered with small rounded papilke, but for what
purpose these are intended it is difficult to say.

Details of the habitat of JZ. muscosa are given by Mr. Lehmann as follows :

This species has a very wide and irregular geographical distribution throughout Ecnador and
Colombia, extending fully six hundred miles from north to south, and ranging vertically from 1,800 to
2,300 métres (5,850 to 7,475 feet), in a temperature varving from 15° to 17°.5 Centigrade (59° to 62> .6
Fahrenheit). Wherever it is found the atmosphere is uniformly damp during the whole vear. It grows
most frequently upon the trunks and thick branches of trees in mountain forests. where the absence of
underwood allows a perpetual circulation of air. The scarcity of such woods accounts for the rarity ot
the plant, for although found in so many localities it is nowhere common. Tn many parts of Ecuador it
also grows upon yoleanic rocks and walls of lava, and produces the largest and most brightly coloured
flowers, the flowering season being in February and March.

In Ecuador it is chiefly found in the Andes of Quito, on the banks of the Rio Silante, about Millizall
and Canzacoto on the western slopes of the Cerro del Corazon, and on the road from Calacali to Nancv]
on the Cerro Pululagua.

In Colombia, northwards from the volcano of Pasto at the head of the valleys of the Patia, Canes.
and Magdalena rivers, it occurs almost uninterruptedly as far north as Santa Rosa de Osos, the Yarumal.
Carolina and Amalfi, in the north of Antioquia. In the west of Antioquia it is met with ina few localities
on the western slopes of the Cordillera at Abriaqui; further south, around Popayin, it is found on the
eastern slopes of the Cerro Munchique, near the volcano of Sotari, the mountains of Caldono and Quilichao,
about Tacuays in the central Cordillera, and in other places too numerous to mention.

In Colombia Jf. muscosa flowers from September to December, and in’ spite of its extensive

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POLYANTHZE Rchb. f.

YP OST of the plants ineluded in this Section, of which the greater number are known
Ps only by name, produce more than one flower upon each stem, the flowers of some
species expanding at the same time, as in AL. Schlimii, and of others in succession, as
in VW. infracta. Tall the cultivated species, with the exception of M. Schlimii, the
stem is triquetrous, or three-angled.

MV. Forgetiana, lately described by Dr. Krinzlin as a distinet species, is a beautiful
yellow variety of VW. iufracta, and is found in the same habitat, the Organ Mountains,
in the south of Brazil, not in the north, as stated in Dr. Kranzlin’s account of the plant.
I received flowers from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, Dublin, in April, 1896,
unfortunately too late to be included in my Plate of AL. infracta.

Me melanorantha Rehb. t. Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 283; TIT. (1855), p. 69; Walp.
Ann. VI. (1861), p. 190: Gard. Chron, 1875, pt. IT., p. 580; 1881, pt. II., p. 886; 1895,
pt. L, p. 859, fig. 46.—A rare species, which, although known by name for many years,
has seldom flowered in cultivation, and is not available for figuring in this work. The
flowers are vellow and dark brown, and are represented in a woodcut in the “Gardeners’
Chronicle” for Mareh 23rd, 1895, p. 359, from a plant in Mr. Sander’s collection at
St. Albans. WZ. Wooreana, a very different species (see Section IIL. Coriacew.), is often
exhibited under the name of JZ melanorantha, and there is frequent confusion between
the two plants. The specimens first described by Reichenbach in 1854, were collected
by Louis Schlim, at Aspasica, near Ocana, at an elevation of 5,000 feet.

9 species figured :

Masdevallia aristata Rodrig. (not in cultivation.)
auropurpurea Rehb. f.
curtipes Rodrig. (not in cultivation.)
Ephippium Rehb. f (=U. Trochilus Lind. et M. Colibri, hort.)
ecuttulata Rehb. f.
infracta Lindl, (=... longicaudata Lemaire et M.albida Pinel.)
maculata Klotzsch (=. bicolor Poepp. et Endl.)
Schlimii Lind.
Tovarensis Rehb. f) (=. candida Klotzsch et Karat.)

Not in cultivation :

M. aristata Rodrig. (see Plate. )
aurantiaca Lindl. Hook. Comp, Bot. Mag. IL. (1836), p. 357.
Buccinator Reehb. f. Bonplandia IT, (1854), p. 1165,
cinnamoned Rehb. tf. Bonplandia TIT, (1855 ), p. 225.
enprea Lindl, Bot. Reg. IS48, Mise, 128, p. 81.
curtipes Rodrig. (ee Plate. )
homatocantha Lindl. Oreh. p. 193.
lata Rehb. ¢ Gard Chron, 1877, pt. 1, p. 658.
Mastodon Rehb. f. Bonplandia TTT, (1855 ), p. 69.
tridentata, Lindl. Hook. Comp, Bot. Mag. I], (1886 ), p. 357.
triquetra Seheidie, Otto et Dietr, Allg. Gartenz. VIT. (1839 ), p. 146.
uvostachya Rehh. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. 1., p. 765.
rylinad Rehb. f Bot. Zeit. XN XT. (1873), p. 390.

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Masprvaniia anistata Rodrig. Gen. et Spee. Orch. Noy. 1. (1877), p- 30; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IT.,

p. 236,
Leat 4 or 5 inches Jong. oval-lanceolate, dark green, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole,
apex tridenticulate.
Pedunele equalling the leaves, 3-angled, producing several flowers in succession, dull green; bract

about ? inch long, membranous, dull brown, sheathing the base of the terete pedicel.

Ovary about 2 inch long, crooved. pale green.
Sepals cohering, forming a narrow tube about 3 inch long, gibbous below, free portion of dorsal sepal
triangular for Linch, prolonged into a slender flattened tail about 2 inches long, pale yellow; lateral sepals

ovate-triangular for } inch, 3-nerved, yellow and brownish-crimson, prolonged into a slender flattened tail

nearly 2 inches long.

Petals oblong. apiculate. fleshy, slightly angled on the anterior margin, pale yellow, with minute
crimson spots.

Lip oblong. two-lobed, the anterior lobe oval, apiculate. curved, pale yellow, with crimson spots,
which are larger on the basal half.

Column a little shorter than the petals, white, apex minutely denticulate.

OR drawings of this and other Brazilian species, unknown in this country either as
living plants or dricd specimens, we are indebted to Senor Barbosa Rodriguez,
Director of the Botanic Gardens at Rio de Janeiro. JL. aristata is allied to AL. infracta,
and appears to be also very closely allied to MZ. awrantiaca, a Brazilian Masdevallia
known by description only. Senor Rodriguez discovered JZ. aristata in January 1876,
in the province of Minas Geraes, where it grows upon mossy rocks, and sometimes upon
trees, in the dark damp recesses of the forests near Caldas. He states that the flower-
stems are perennial, producing fresh flowers annually, and in his drawing the old flower-
stalks may be seen appearing above the top of the bract.
The accompanying Plate is an exact copy of Sehor Rodriguez’s drawing from nature,
intended by him for publication in his ‘“‘Iconographie des Orchidées du Brézil,” and
referred to in his “Genera et Species Orchidearum novarum” as “ tab. 377, ined.”

As no fresh specimens of JZ. aristata are available, the original description by Senor
Rodriguez from living plants is here given :

* Foliis oboval-oblongis, attenuatis in petiolis, acumine emarginato; scapo trigono,
foliorum longitudine ; sepalis infractis, doraali minori junctis, longe aristatis ; petalis sub-
carnosis, semi-canaliculatis apice inequaliter bi-dentatis ; labello oblongo, sub-trilobato,

apice acuto, centro canaliculato.”

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Maspevania atroperrtrea Reh, f. Bonplandia IT. (1844), p. 115 (nomen tantum) and p. 283 ; III.
(1855), p. GY: Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 192; Otia Bot. Hamb. p. 17 (1878).

Leaf about 5 inches long. oblong-lanceolate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing

below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele a little longer than the leaves, triquetrous, erect, 2-flowered, cach flower with a sheathing

apiculate membranous bract concealing the base of the ovary, bright green.

Ovary nearly } inch long. curved, with three rounded angles and three acute wings, pale green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous
3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail 1 inch long, bright vellow, faintly
1 sepals cohering for nearly 3 inch, free portion ovate-triangular,
inch long, bright vellow, tinged with chestnut-brown and
lh brown, and covered with minute papillz, the tails yellow

below. free portion triangular,
tinged with chestnut brown: latera
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and wreen,

Petals 4 inch long, oblong. apiculate, with a keel on the anterior margin, white.
etals, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge,

Lip a little longer than the ]
with two longitudinal angled keels, dull purplish-erimson, with

oblong-eordate, lobed at the margin,
darker spots. the apex retlexed and covered with dark crimson papilla.
Column shorter than the petals. narrowly winged, white and pale purplish-crimson, apex denticulate.
ple E first plants of Masderallia auropurpurea were collected by Warscewicz in 1853,

at Aspasica and Enllanade, near Oceana, in the Provinee of Santander, Colombia,
at an elevation of 5,000 feet, and for nearly forty years the species was only known from
Reichenbach’s description of these dried specimens. In 1894 a plant was purchased
from Mr. Sander, of St. Albans, by Mr. F. W. Moore, through whose kindness in sending

me fresh flowers I am enabled to publish a drawing of the first plant ever seen in

cultivation.

The name atrorubra is an unpublished name of Reichenbach’s for a dark variety of
this species, and the name atropurpurea is merely a misprint in the index of Walper's
Annales for the word auropurpurea.

Our knowledge of the geographical distribution of this species is considerably
extended by Mr. Sander’s remark to Mr. Moore that his plant undoubtedly came from

Peru—about one thousand miles south of Ocana, where it was originally found, and two
or three hundred miles south of the limit given by Consul Lehmann in the following

note:

Masdevallia auropurpurea is widely distributed from the north of Colombia southwards into central
Ecuador. and is an abundant but extremely Jocal species. It grows upon trees in open woods at an
elevation of 1,200 to 1,800 métres (3,900 to 5,850 feet), and in only one locality in Ecuador I have seen
it erowing upon rocks. I have found it on the banks of the Rio Pastaza, on the way from Bajos on the
Vulean Tunecuragua, to Canalos, in Ecuador. In the south of Colombia it is very common all over the
highlands of Popayin. On the western slopes of the Central Andes, above Palmira, it grows with
M. Ephippiun, and from thence northwards it occurs in an uninterrupted line as far as Pacora and
Aguadas, in Antioquia, being especially plentiful around Neira and Aranzasu. Along the eastern slopes
of the Western Andes it is to be found in several localities, extending as far north as Frontino and
Buritici. It grows in the greatest abundance on the Cordillera de Ben Alcazar, between the towns of
Cartaro and Caramanta. On the eastern declivities of the Central Andes, which slope towards the basin
of the Rio Magdalena, I have seen it in one locality only, in the mountains between Pensilvania and La
Victoria. :

The mean temperature of the habitat of M/. auropurpurea ranges between 18° and 20° Centigrade
(about 642 to 68° Fahrenheit), The weather during January, February, and March, and again from July
to September, is very dry ; while the rainfall during the rest of the vear is extremely heavy.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin :

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Masprvaniaa cuntives Rodrig. Gen. et Spec. Orch. Noy. 11. (1881), p. 95.

Leat about 5 inches Jong. linear-lanccolate, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, dark
green, apex tridenticulate,

Peduncle, including pedicel, about 14 inch long, terete, ascending from the base of the petiole, dark
ereen, bract 2 inch long, ovate, apiculate, membranous, sheathing below, brownish.

Ovary Linch long. with six grooves, whitish-green.

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Sepals cohering, forming a narrow tube about 4 inch long, gibhous below, free portion of the upper
sepal very short. triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in a slender tail nearly 1 inch long; lateral sepals
roundly triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails inch long, all dull purplish-red, tails bright

vellow.

Petals lincar. with an angle on the anterior margin near the base, apex hooked, white spotted with

crimson.
Lip oblong. with rounded lateral lobes, apex linguiform, acute, recurved, with minute central
papillee, white.

Column very thick. shorter than the petals, white. apex minutely denticulate.

jy (SS oe CURTIPES was discovered in 1879 by Senhor Barbosa Rodriguez,

in the damp unexplored forests of Rodeio, a few miles north of Rio de Janeiro,
flowering in May and June. No drawing of this curious little plant has hitherto been
published, the accompanying Plate being a copy of a drawing from nature prepared by
Senhor Rodriguez for his great work on the Orchids of Brazil, not yet completed.
MW. curtipes is at present unknown in this country, the only Brazilian species in cultiva-
tion being JZ. ingracta, from which it differs considerably in the extreme shortness of its
flower-stalk and in the dull uniform colour of its flowers.

The original description by Senhor Rodriguez is as follows :

“MW. caule secundaria trigono, brevi, multo minore folio; folio lineari-lanceolato, basi
attenmmto, apice tridentata, antice canaliculato; scapo caule secundario longitudine ; sepatis
connatis eupuliformibus, superiore minore, breviter triangulato, longe-cristato, inferioribus
majoribus et latioribus cn aristis valde productis; petalis carnosis, antice semi-
canalicnlatis, apice unicinatis; labello trilobato, lobulis lateralibus lamina a basi emarginata,
erecta, aptee sub-rotunda sub haee lamina est unguis et in apiece lobo medio qui est
linguiformi, grantoso in centrum, acuto et recurve.”

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Masprvatiia Epuirrium Rehb. f. Bot. Zeit. 1873, p. 390; Xenia Orch. vol. II. (1874), p. 213, t. 195 ;
Gard. Chron. 1874. pt. L, p. 872; 1881, pt. IL, p. 236; Bot. Mag. t. 6208, (1876).

M. Trochilus Lind. Mlustr. Hort. vol. XXI. (1874), p. 136, t. 180; Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 711; 1875,
pt. L, p. 504; 1881, pt. IL, p. 110; Floral Mag. 1881, t. 443.

M. Colibri Hort. Burbidge Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 3; Gard. Chron. 1885, pt. L., p. 174.

Var. acrochordonia==Masdevallia acrochordonia Rchb. f. Xenia Orch. vol. II. (1874), p. 213; Gard.
Chron. 1885, pt. L., p. 174; Orchidophile ((rodefroy) 1885, p. 199.

Leaf 5 to 10 inches long, 1 or 14 inch broad, oblanceolate, minutely tridenticulate, narrowing below
into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle 10 or 12 inches long, many-flowered, each flower falling off before the expansion of the
next, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole, acutely angled, angles from one to five,
most frequently three; bright green; flowering bract 1 inch, or more, long, sheathing, apiculate, pale
green.

Ovary 4 to 3 inch long, triangular, with six deep grooves, bright green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 3 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, ovate for
about 4 inch, cucullate, 3-nerved, yellow, with minute brown spots, narrowing into a tail 4 or 5 inches
long, yellow, greenish at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly two inches, much inflated, 3-nerved,
nerves depressed, with the intervening spaces much distended: colour on the exterior crimson-brown with
greenish nerves, on the interior yellow closely covered with small crimson spots, rich crimson near the
tube, the nerves thickly studded with large, irregular warts ; terminating abruptly in slender tails 3 or 4
inches long, meeting at the base, diverging towards the extremity, vellow, greenish at the back.

Petals about 4 inch long, oblong, apiculate, with a prominent keel on the anterior margin terminating
in a small angle, and a smaller keel near the opposite margin, white.

Lip a little more than } inch long, grooved at the base, with two triangular lateral lobes, obovate
towards the acute apex, white, spotted and barred with crimson.

Column about 4 inch long, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white, with wings and back rose-

crimson.

HE discoverer of Masderallia Ephippium was undoubtedly Gustav Wallis, in 1868,
although the discovery is sometimes ascribed to Dr. Krause, as late as the year
1873. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, pt. [., p. 504, an interesting account of the
discovery of M. Ephippinn, under the synonym of M. Trochilus, is given by Wallis,

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who is considered to be a most accurate and trustworthy observer and narrator. © This
Masdevallia having been discovered by me, it may be interesting if T communicate some
observations respecting it. In the year 1868 I first met with this plant, growing in the
frosty heights of the Sonson district in New Grenada. The whole of the plants which
I then remitted to Europe died, and I afterwards sent others in the year 1872, to Mons.
Linden of Brussels. JZ. Trochilus suffers greatly from tropical heat, and from excess
of heat generally. Only a dozen out of 200 plants arrived in Europe the first time—I
brought them under my personal care. The name ‘ Colibri, which is given to this plant
in its native country, is simply an allusion to the fantastic bird-like appearance of the
flower—though this allusion is rather far-fetched, as are so many of the allusions in use
by the South Americans, especially the Indians. 2)... ©.) . The general size
of the flower does not surpass that of a walnut. The winged sepals have a length of
about 4 or 5 inches each. There is a peculiarity of the plant well worth mentioning,
and that is its power of producing out of the same spathe several subsequent flowers.
I observed many plants in my stores that produced flowers out of the old stalks, which
I had considered as being dead. It is possible, therefore, that this Measdecallia in its
native place has two flowering seasons each year. The strong and compactly-formed
root-balls get sometimes to a considerable size and weight. The plant, being once
established, must possess an extraordinary vital power. The flower-stalks are ex-
ceedingly strong, and have in section a well-marked triangular outline ; the leaves are

of a bright green colour, short and strong, and of an unusual thickuess—the term

coriaceous will not suffice for them. JL Trochilus las the happy faculty of growing

and doing well under any conditions. It grows quite as well in a loose compost as on

the bark of trees, or on decomposed picces of trunk, and even in a common heavy soil.

The amateur Orchid-grower will also appreciate its habit of growing in highly elevated

regions, as cold as any Masderallia can exist in, not even excepting JZ. elephanticeps.”

The long interval which elapsed between the discovery of Masderallia Ephippiun
in 1868 and the publication of the first description in 1873, can only be accounted for
by the fact that the whole of Wallis’s first importation of plants perished, and that,
apparently, he sent home no dried specimens of the flower. The species appears to
have been known to Mons. Linden and others as J/. Trochilus for some time previous
to the publication of Professor Reichenbach’s description under the name of Ephippinm
in 1873; although no description of the plant under the name of Trochilus was
published until 1874.

I am informed by Consul Lehmann that the plant found by Dr. Krause at Loja
(formerly Loxa) was the small-flowered variety acrochordonia, wamed and described by
Professor Reichenbach as a distinet species. Consul Lehmann, however, considers this
plant to be merely a local variety peculiar to the eastern slopes of the Andes, the type,
M. Ephippiwn, being found upon the western slopes. A careful examination of the
two plants reveals only very slight differences between them, the flowers of acrochordonia
being always smaller and sometimes less globular than those of M. Ephippinn, wid
having the lip and petals slightly narrower and more pointed. The remarkable wart-
like processes along the inner surface of the nerves of the lateral sepals are equally
present in both plants, although entirely overlooked by Professor Reichenbach in his
description of AL, Ephippiun.

Consul Lehmann gives the localities in which he has found the two plants in the
following note :

Maadevallia Ephippinn Rebb. f. (Lrochilus Lind.) has the largest geographical
distribution of any Masdevallia known to me. It was first discovered by Wallis in the
State of Antioquia in Colombia, where it grows at various places at an elevation of
1,800 to 2,200 metres above the sea (5,850 to 7,150 feet), and in huge but not very dense
woods, high on trees. From Antioquia the first specimens were introduced into Europe.
In 1877 it was observed by myself all along the western slopes of the Central Andes of

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the State of Cauca, as far south as the volcano of Sotara, near Popayan. In the vicinity
of Popayan it attains the largest proportions, both in masses of root and in the size of
the flowers. Masses measuring 40 or 50 centimétres (16 or 20 inches) across are
frequently met with. About three years ago (1886) I also found the variety acrochordonia
on the eastern declivities of the Eastern Andes of Cuenca, in Ecuador. The plants
from that locality are much smaller, and the flowers only about half the size of those of
M. Ephippinn in Colombia.

M. Ephippiion is never found growing in great abundance over a large area. It
invariably occupies small localities—perhaps a small portion of a mountain slope—and
will not be met with again for a great distance.

The annual mean temperature ranges between 15° and 18° Centigrade (59° and

64°°4 Fahrenheit), according to the region.
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Maspevarua cerrenata Rehb. f. Linnea XLT. (1877), p. 118; Rolfe in Gard. Chron, 1890, pt. IL, p. 267.

Leaf about 5 inches long and 4 inch wide, oblong. apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below
into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, pale green.

Peduncle 6 to 10 inches long, erect, 3-angled, bright green, many-flowered, each flower falling off
before the expansion of the next ; flowering bract about 3 inch long, sheathing below, carinate, apiculate,

brownish-creen.
Ovary nearly 4 inch Jong, curved, rounded, with six grooves, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about } inch, 3-nerved, triangular for 4); inch,

tapering into a thick greenish tail 3 inch long ; lateral sepals cohering for about $ inch, 3-nerved, ovate-

triangular for 4 inch, tapering very gradually into flattened blunt fleshy tails nearly } inch long, greenish ;

all the sepals dull white. with numerous small tufts of short crimson hairs upon the inner surface, nerves

yellowish, prominent on the outer surtace.-
Petals ,{, inch long, lincar-oblong, apiculate, pale yellow, with a crimson keel near the anterior margin.

Lip about the length of the petals, grooved, fleshy and cordate at the base, and united to the foot of
the columm by a flexible hinge. oblong, angled at the margin, apex ovate, apiculate, with numerous minute

papilke. pale vellow, covered with small crimson spots, apex brighter vellow.

Column a little shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex scarcely dentate, very pale green,

spotted on the foot with erimson.

MW ASDEVALLIA GUTTULATA was discovered—probably in Ecuador—by Gustav

Wallis, whose dried specimens were described by Professor Reichenbach in 1877.
As lately as 1890 it was again described by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, of the Royal Herbarium,
Kew, who then considered it to be a new species. — It is still rare and little-known, and
to be found in only a few collections in this country, perhaps owing to its being extremely
local in its native habitat. [ have received several specimens from Mr. F. W. Moore, of
Glasnevin, Dublin, whose plant furnished the photograph for the accompanying woodcut.
Messrs. Seeger and Tropp, also, with rare generosity, forwarded to me a living plant in
full Hower, a most valuable assistance in the completion of my drawings.

The two species most nearly allied to JL, guttulata are M. infractaand M. Ephippium,
Which it resembles in producing several flowers in succession from a thick, angled stem.
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presence of little tufts of stiff hairs scattered over the inner surface of the sepals. and
having at first sight the appearance of small crimson spots. This characteristic | have
endeavoured to show at fig. 1 of the accompanying Plate,

Consul Lehmann, who appears to be almost the only collector of this species since
its discovery by Wallis, gives the following information :

The habitat of Masdevallia guttulata is in Ecuador, where it grows on trees in dense, very damp
woods, at an elevation of 600 to 1,200 métres (1950 to 3,900 feet). The annual mean temperature of this
region ranges between 21° and 25° Centigrade (about 69° to 77° Fahrenheit), and rain falls all the vem
round. The distribution of this species appears to be contined to one comparatively small locality. the
banks of the Rio Namora in the Eastern Andes of Loja.* I observed it here for the first: time in

wm November 1876, and subsequently on various other occasions. Near all the numerous rivers in the \ 1einity
belonging to the same watershed, I have seen no trace of it, although IT have found there four other distinet
species of this section of the genus Masdevallia, three of which are still undescribed. A. gurttv lata, thoush
not a profusely flowering species, is constantly in bloom in a wild state, and even when cultivated at one
of my orchid stations in Colombia, it is remarkable for this characteristic.

* I am informed by Mr. William Bull that he has received this species “from the OQeana district °—
more than nine hundred miles north-east of Loja.—F.H.W.

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MASDEVALLIA INFRACTA Lindl.

Maspevatnra wrracta Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Oreh. (1883). p. 193; Bot. Reg. 1838, p. 40, mise. 64; Belg.
Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 357, t. XXIL; Flore des Serres, vol. XXIIL (1880), p. 43, t. 2389; Gard.
Chron. ISS1, pt.1L., p. 305.

M. longicandata Lemaire Ulustr. Hort. vol. XV. (1868), mise. p. 109 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 305.
M. albida Pinel MSS. fide Lemaire Ilustr. Hort. vol. XV. (1868), mise. p. 109.
Var. purpurea Rebb, f. Gard. Chron, 1883, pt. IL, p. 460; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol I. (1883), p. 761.

Leat 4 or 5 inches long, about } inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, fleshy, apex tridenticulate, bright green,
very shining, narrowing into « slender grooved petiole, pale green.

Pedunele 6 or 8 inches long, erect, sometimes terete, more often angled, bright green, many-flowered,
each flower falling off before the expansion of the next ; bracts about inch long, carinate, apiculate,
sheathing below, ovate above, bright green or brownish.

Ovary about 4 inch Jong, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, whitish or pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion
triangular-ovate for about 3 inch, 3-nerved, cucullate, purplish-pink, terminating in a slender tail 14 inch
long, greenish-yellow ; lateral sepals cohering for about 3 inch, gibbous below, roundly ovate, 3-nerved,
purplish-pink. darker along the nerves, terminating in slender greenish tails, 3 inch long.

Petals about } inch long, linear, apiculate, anterior margin slightly keeled, inner surface viscid below
the keel. white, with pale pink spots. apex pale yellow.

Lip about | inch Jong. oblong-pandurate. angled and keeled, margins and apex reflexed, dull pink with
hunierous crimson spots, apex dull orange and crimson.

Column nearly 4 inch Jong, narrowly winged, white and pale green, apex crenate.

Ni. JEVALLIA INFRACTA was discovered by Descourtilz, a French traveller and
= botanist, in the year 1809, and is therefore the oldest Masdevallia in cultivation,
the only species discovered at an earlier date being the Peruvian J. uniflora, upon which
the genus was founded in 1798 by Ruiz and Pavon. This species is now of uncertain
identity, and was never introduced into cultivation.

The first imported plants of I. infracta were probably those sent to Paris in 1828 by
Mons. Pinel, a resident near Rio de Janeiro. These plants were supplied to him by
Morel, who, during his explorations in the surrounding country, collected them at Penna
near Canta Gallo. A drawing of the plant was made in 1838 by a daughter of Mons. Pinel,
and published thirty years afterwards in “ L'Illustration Horticole,” by the Editor, Mons.
Lemaire, who thought fit to substitute the specific name longicaudata for that of albida,
under which the drawing was sent to him. The first description of M. infracta was
published by Dr. Lindley in March, 1833.

Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a Pjant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip —4. column ;—4da. apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

MASDEVALLIA INFRACTA,

In 1836 the plant was found by Dr. Gardner, who sent home numerous dried
specimens, some of which are preserved in the British Museum of Natural History, and
others—together with a drawing by the collector—in the Royal Herbarium, Kew. The
first living plants imported into England were sent in 1837 by Dr. Gardner to Messrs.
Loddiges, in whose establishment at Hackney they flowered the following year.

Variations occasionally occur in the colour of the flowers, and one variety, Introduced
by Mr. Bull, was named by Professor Reichenbach var. purpurea. It has large flowers
of an uniform shade of violet-purple. In some plants the winged or angled stem,
characteristic of most species allied to MZ. infracta, is replaced by a slender rounded stem.

The only known habitat of Af. infracta is Brazil, where it is found in the mountains
called bythe Portuguese Serra dos Orgios, or Organ Mountains, froma fancied resemblance
of their granite peaks to the pipes of an organ. These peaks form part of a mountain
range situated about sixty miles to the north of Rio de Janeiro, branching out in various
directions, and stretching from near Bahia in lat. 12°S., to S. Catharina in lat. 20° S.
Many small rivers take their rise in the Organ Mountains, spreading into wide clear pools,
and traversing valleys of deep rich alluvial soil before falling into the Bay of Rio. The
sides of the mountains are clothed with forest trees of large size, and upon the mossy
stems and branches, as well as on the sides of banks, AL. iafracta was found in abundance
by Dr. Gardner, flowering from November to January. All the steeper declivities are
overspread with beautiful flowering shrubs, the summits of the smaller peaks being com-
posed of enormous loose blocks of granite covered with lichens and small Orchids. The
summit of the highest peak, about 7,500 feet above the level of the sea, is formed of one
broad flat surface of granite of considerable extent, bare for the most part, but here and
there covered with small stunted shrubs, and showing many little excavations in the
surface, filled with excellent water.

The temperature during the cool months of May and June is sometimes as low as
32° just before daybreak, but in the hot and rainy months of January and February
it rises to 84° at noon. Violent thunder-storms occur almost daily, coming on regularly
at 4 p.m., and leaving the evening atmosphere fresh and cool.

The above description of the Organ Mountains is taken from Dr. Gardner's “Travels
in Brazil,” published in 1849.

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MASDEVALLIA MACULATA Klotzsch.

Maspevaniia macuLata Klotzsch et Karst. Allg. Gartz. (Otto und Dietrich) XV. (1847), p. 330; Walp.
Ann. I. (1849), p. 774; VI. (1861), p. 190; Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 23; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873),
p. 359; Flore des Serres t. 2150 (1875) ; Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 103; 1881, pt. IL., p. 336; Veitch
Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 41.

Var. flava Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 52.

Leaf 6 or 7 inches long, linear-lanceolate, slightly carinate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing
below into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 8 or 10 inches long, sharply angled (angles two, three, or four), producing several flowers,
cach flower falling off before the expansion of the next, bright green ; flowering bract about 1 inch long,
carinate, apiculate, pale green, sheathing the numerous buds and the base of the terete reddish pedicel.

Ovary about } inch long, with three rounded angles and three wings, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 8 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion
ovate-triangular for } inch, 3-nerved, yellow, shaded and spotted with red, tapering into a fleshy flattened
tai] about 3 inches long, bright orange, greenish at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for 1} inch, oblong-
ovate, 3-nerved, reddish-vellow at the margins, crimson in the centre, with dark nerves and spots, tapering
into slender pale lemon-coloured tails, 2 inches long.

Petals about } inch long, oblong, apiculate, anterior margin slightly keeled, white and very pale yellow.

Lip about } inch long, pandurate, with two angles, dull purple, spotted with dark crimson, apex rough
with dark crimson papille.

Column 4} inch long, white, very narrowly winged with crimson, apex crenate.

AY ASDEVALLIA MACULATA was discovered by Wagener at La Silla near Caracas,

at an altitude of 8,000 feet, growing in woods on the branches of trees, and flowering
in Juneand August. Wagener’s imported plants flowered in 1847 at the Botanic Gardens,
Berlin. for the first time in cultivation.

A well-known variety of J. maculata, car, flava (of which a flower is represented in
the accompanying Plate), has small bright lemon-yellow flowers, tinged inside with
reddish-brown. The petals, ete. are identical in structure with those of the type, but the
column has none of the purple shading, and the lip is paler in colour. This variety was
imported from Caracas by Messrs. Sander of St. Albans in 1881.

A nearly allied species—or possibly a form of the same—is M. bicolor, described and
tigured in 1838 by Poeppig and Endler (Noy. Gen. et Spec. IL., p. 6), and found growing
on trees in the woods of Cuchero, in the eastern mountains of Peru, flowering in January.
It has the angled stem usual to species of the same section, and flowers of the same
colouring as those of I. maenlata, but it is a much smaller plant, both leaves and stem
being scarcely four inches in height. Living specimens of AZ. bicolor have never been
imported, and until the plant has been re-discovered and carefully examined, its identity
with J. meen/ata must remain uncertain.

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Consul Lehmann gives much additional information as to the climate and localities
in which AZ. maculata is found :

The habitat of Masderallia maculata is in Venezuela and Colombia, at an elevation of
1,400 to 1,700 metres (4,550 to 5,525 feet). It flowers from August to December, and in
cultivation at Popayan it is never without flowers. In Venezuela it grows in the colony
of Tovar near Caracas, and in the mountainous parts of the Estado de Carabobo, a hame
given by the Spaniards to the tract of country between the Atlantic Ocean and the
Lake of Valencia, bounded on the west and south-west by the State of Yaracuy and the
Llanos de San Carlos and Calabozo.

In Colombia it occurs, although very rarely, in the extensive highlands of Popayan,
from the Rio Ovejas to the Rio Hondo, in woods of a remarkably open and park-like aspect.
These woods consist chiefly of trees and shrubs of the following genera: Weinmannia,
Clusia (Balsam-tree), Thibaudia, Bejaria, Gaultheria, Clethra, Myrtus (Myrtle), Psidinn
(Guava), Freziera, Cinchona, Inga (Soldier-wood), Ficus (Fig), Querens (Oak), Annona
(Custard-apple), A7eriania (Jamaica-rose), Leandra, Miconia, etc. The trunks of the trees
are covered with small lichens and a few mosses, and more rarely with ferns and
Bromeliads. Orchids of the following genera are to be found in these woods: Plenrothallis,
Stelis, Lepanthes, Restrepia, Comparettia, Burlingtonia, Epidendrin, Sobralia, and
Evelyna; with Oncidium obryzatum, O. panduratum and O. globulifermn ; Aasdevallia
auropurpurea, M. maculata, M. Ephippiion, M. amanda, and a few others.

The climate of this region is remarkable for dense fogs and heavy rains, with frequent
and very violent thunder-storms. During the rainy season the nights are generally clear,
but towards daybreak dense fogs gather, and lie close above the woods, resembling, if
observed from the higher regions of the Cordilleras, immense loose masses of cotton wool.
At about 8 o'clock these fogs begin to rise and to form large cumulus clouds, which, from
2 o'clock p.m. condense and fall in heavy showers, accompanied by severe thunder-storms,
lasting as a rule until night. The dry season in Venezuela is from January to the cnd
of March, and in Cauca from July to September.

The annual mean temperature is between 18° and 19° Centigrade (about 64° to 66
Fahrenheit), and the extremes are 15° and 25° Centigrade (59° and 77° Fahrenheit).

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Masprvatiia Scuumm Lind. MSS. Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Bonplandia II. (1854), pp. 23 and
283; Walp. Am. VI. (1861), p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360; Gard. Chron. 1883,
pt. I., p. 532, fig. 80; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 662; Bot. Mag. t. 6740 (1884) ; Die
Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. (Engler und Prantl) pt. 23 (1888), p. 137, fig. 135; Veitch Manual Orch.
pt. V. (1889), p. 61.

Var. Sceptrum=Masdevallia Sceptrum Rehb. f. Bonplandia IL. (1854), p. 283 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861),
p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360.

Var. polyantha=Masdevallia polyantha Lindl. Orch, Lind. (1846), p. 6; Bonplandia I. (1854), p. 283 ;
III. (1855), p. 69 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193; Belg. Hort. XXII. (1873), p. 360.

Leaf 10 or 12 inches long, obovate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, very bright green, the principal
nerves paler, marrowing below into a very pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 14 or 15 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, terete, ascending from within a
sheath at the hase of the petiole, racemose, producing six or eight flowers, each on an erect pedicel 1 or
14 inch long, at intervals of 3 or 4 inch, pale green dotted with dull red; flowering bracts about 4 inch
Jong, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish.

Ovary 4 inch Jong, triangular, with six deep crooves, slightly winged, green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion trian-
gular for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, nerves carinate without, bright yellow, with minute reddish-brown spots,
terminating in a slender vellow tail about 2 inches long ; lateral sepals cohering for 3 inch, gibbous at the
base, 3-nerved, obovate for 3 inch, yellow, closely spotted with velvety, dull crimson spots, over which is
a purplish lustre, tapering into slender vellow tails 1} inch long.

Petals } inch long, linear-oblong, acutely angled on both margins, with a fleshy keel on the anterior
margin, white, apex very pale vellow.

Lip nearly 4 inch long, oblong, curved, with two curved keels on the anterior portion, base fleshy,
grooved. whitish, mottled with transverse crimson spots, apex much reflexed, yellow spotted with crimson.

Column above } inch long, narrowly winged, apex slightly crenate, white edged with crimson.
(gee SCHLIMII was discovered in 1843 by Louis Schlim, growing on
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honour of its dicoverer, his fellow-traveller and half-brother. Jt has subsequently been
found in various localities of the Eastern Cordilleras of Colombia, and the first living
plants were imported by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, in L883.

Varieties of AZ, Sch/imii have from time to time been found, and have in some
instances received specific names. The variation seems to be chiefly in size and in the
depth of colouring of the flowers, and may possibly be accounted for by the great differ-
ence of elevation and climate, and the more or less exposed situations in which the
plants grow, a difference quite sufficient—especially in the case of the variety polyautha—
to cause even greater variation than has yet been met with.

The best-known variety, polyantha, which has smaller and more compactly arranged
flowers, was found by Schlim at Ocana, in Colombia, about the same date as JZ. Sehlimii,
and was described by Dr. Lindley as a distinet species. The locality is given in the
field-note of the collector, as follows: “An epiphyte at the entrance of the Paramo of
Portachuela, in the Province of Merida, at the height of 11,500 feet, between Bailadores
and La Grita; June to September.” The mean temperature of this elevated region is
46° Fahrenheit.

The plant figured in the Botanical Magazine, t.6740, as LZ. Sehlimii, is wow considered
to be the variety polyantha. This specimen, taken from the collection of Sir Trevor
Lawrence, is preserved in the Royal Herbarium at Kew. The leaves are more rounded
than those of AZ, Sch/imii, and the flowers are smaller and less closely spotted, with the
margins of the lateral sepals much reflexed.

Another probable variety, named as a distinet species AL Seeptrian by Professor
Reichenbach, was collected by Schlim at La Baja and Pamplona, at an elevation of
8—9,000 feet, flowering in January. It appears to differ from JZ Sch/imii only in having
smaller and darker flowers. In Professor Reichenbach’s description both of JZ. Secptrum
and AM. polyantha (Bouplandia IT. p. 283), he mentions that the stem is angled or winged,
a character not noticed by Dr. Lindley in his original description of WW. polyantha. No
plant under the name of AZ, Sceptrian las ever been in cultivation, although dried
specimens have occasionally been sent home under this naine by various collectors. To
the courtesy of Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, I am indebted for an opportunity of ex-
amining one of these specimens, found at Ocana in 1886, of which the chief characteristics
agree in all respects with those of A/. Sch/imii, the tails being perhaps a little thicker,
flatter and shorter.

Consul Lehmann sends the following note :

The habitat of AZ Schlimii is in Colombia and Venezuela, at an elevation of 1,800 to
2,500 metres (5,850 to 8,125 feet). The region over which this species is distributed
begins on the western slopes of the Eastern Cordilleras of Colombia near Sogamoso,
continuing northward as far as the bifurcation of the Cordillera at the Paramo de San-
turban, and from thence north-eastward as far as Merida in Venezuela. In its habit of
growth it greatly resembles Masderallia Ephippiin, growing abundantly on trees
in damp, but open and park-like woods, and limited to small localities, large districts
intervening without a trace of the plant to be seen.

The mean temperature of this region is between 14° and 17° Centigrade (about 57
to 63° Fahrenheit).

A much greater elevation is assigned by some authorities to Masderaltia Schlimii—
as much as 11,000 feet—but I must remark that this altitude is not attained by the true
M. Schlimii, nor by any allied species or variety with which | am acquainted, with the
exception of Sceptrum, polyantha, and W. Ephippinun var. acrochordonia. None attains
a greater elevation than 2,500 metres (8,125 feet), and most of them are found at soo to
1,700 métres (2,600 to 5,525 fect). The elevation of 11,000 feet is reached in ¢ clout
by very few species of Masderallia, and those chiefly of the sections Cortacew (Rehb. £)
and Cucullatw (Rehb. f.).

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MASpEVALLIA TovaneNsis Rebb. f. Limaa XXII (1849), p. 818; Walp. Ann. HT. (1852), p. 523; VI.
(1861), p. 192; Bonplandia IIT. (1855), p. 2255 Bot. Mag. t. 5505 (1865) ; Gard. Chron. 1865,
p. 914, fig. B; 1871, p. 1421, fig. 310, B, and p. 1486; 1874, pt. IL, p. 715; 1881, pt. IL., p. 409,
fic. B: Fl. and Pomol. 1873. p. 169, fig. 5; Belg. Hort. XXII. (1873), p. 360; Tlustr. Hort.
XXVI. (1879), p. 169, t. 363; De Puydt, Les Orch. (1880), p. 287, pl. XXIV.

V. candida Klotzsch et Karst. Bonplandia IT. (1854), p23; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 192; Gard. Chron.
1871, p. 1421; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 355.

Leaf about 6 inches long, oblong-ovate, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a grooved petiole sheathed
at the base, dark green.

Peduncle 5 or 6 inches long, sharply angled, angles two to five, many-flowered, ascending from within
a sheath at the base of the petiole, bright green ; bracts about 4 inch long, sheathing, apiculate, bright

green.
Ovary nearly 4 inch long, with three acute angles, bright pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about } inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion
triangular, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail about 13 inch long ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 1
inch. tree portions broadly oval, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails about 3 inch long ; all pure white,

with pale vellowish-green tails.
Petals } inch long, linear. apiculate, angled on the anterior margin, white.

Lip about 4 inch Jong, slightly grooved at the base, united to the foot of the column by a flexible

hinge, pandurate, with two longitudinal keels. apex retiexed, white.

Colum scarcely 4 inch Jong, narrowly winged, apex denticulate. white, tinged and winged with

purple-crimson.

(ed species Was discovered in 1842 by Linden, at an elevation of 2,000 métres (6,500

feet), near Tovar, a small German colony in Venezuela, and named—in manuscript
only—Masderallia candida, The first botanical description of the plant was published
under the name of JF. torarensis by Professor Reichenbach in 1849, from dried speci-
mens collected in 1846 by Moritz in the same habitat. Several years afterwards, living
plants under the name of A. candida were sent to Germany by Wagener, who collected
them near Caracas at an elevation of 6,000 feet. One of these plants, sold to the late
Mr. Sigismund Riicker, flowered in 1864 for the first time in England in his collection at
West Hill, Wandsworth, and was identified with Professor Reichenbach’s A. tovarensis.

A hybrid has been raised from M. tovarensis and M. ignea in the collection of
Captain Hincks, of Breckenbrough, Yorkshire, and named in his honour by Professor
Reichenbach M. Hincksiana (Gard. Chron, 1887, pt. IL, p. 214). The flowers are more

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slender than those of M. torarensis, and are of a delicate golden-yellow colour. Lt is
curious to note that the terete flower-stems usually produce more than one flower, the
plant in this respect resembling the many-flowered JZ. torarensis, the pollen-plant J/,
iguea having solitary flowers.

Two other hybrids have been raised, both by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans :
M. Measuresiana (Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. IL., p. 379), white, bordered and nerved with
lilac, the tails darker, a hybrid between AZ. amabilis and AM. torarensis ; and AM. Amesiana
(Gard. Chron. 1891, pt. I. p. 38, and pt. IL p. 197), apricot colour—raised from J/.
Veitchiana and MM. torarensis.

Consul Lehmann sends the following note :
Up to this date, Masderallia tovarensis appears to have been found only ine the small
colony of Tovar, near Caracas in Venezuela, at an elevation of 1,500 to 1,800 métres
(4,875 to 5,850 feet). It grows on trees in open, park-like woods, under exactly the same
conditions as MW. maculata.
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SECTION IX.

RACEMOS 4K.

qT is Impossible to class iW. racemosa with any other cultivated species, because it

differs so essentially from them all. By the advice of Consul Lehmann I place in
the same Section WW. Bdvardi, which, although very much smaller, has also creeping
rhizomes, producing leaves at intervals, and bearing two or three scarlet flowers upon
one stem.

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Not in cultivation :

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Masprvatiia racemosa Lindl. Ann, Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. (1845), p. 256; Benth. Plant. Hartw. (1846),
p. 258; Rehb. f. Bonplandia TT. (1855), p. 69; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193; Gard. Chron. 1881,
pt. IL, p. 336; 1883, pt. IE, p. 4665; ISS4, pt. L, p. 736 and 737, fig. 139; Veitch Manual Orch.
pt. Nis (1ss9), p- 58.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long and about 3 inch wide, oblong-ovate, apex tridenticulate, margins recurved,
dull grevish-green, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base and produced
from a creeping rhizome at intervals of 1 or 1} inch.

Peduncle 8 to 15 inches Jong, erect, slender, terete, dull reddish-green, many-tlowered, the flowers

developing in succession, two or three only being expanded at the same time, the pedicel of each having a
sheathing brown membranous bract at the base, 3 inch long, embracing the peduncle and the pedicel.

Ovary nearly | inch Jong, with six rounded angles, bright crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about } inch, forming a straight narrow tube,
free portion ovate-triangular for 4 inch, 38-nerved, terminating in a tail about 4 inch long ; lateral sepals
cohering for 1 inch or a little more, broadly cordate, 3-nerved, terminating in a small blunt point ; all the
sepals orange-scarlet with the nerves and margins vermilion, tube vellowish-scarlet.

Petals } inch long, oblong-ovate, anterior margin slightly thickened, pale yellow.

Lip about 2 inch long. linear, with two slightly carinate longitudinal lines, ivorv-white, unite: to the
foot of the column by a flexible hinge.

Cohtunn a litthe longer than the petals, slender, very narrowly winged, apex very minutely dentate,
pale vellow and pink. with a few small pink spots. and one deep purple spot on each side of the foot.

M ASDEVALLIA RACEMOSA was discovered near Popayan by Hartweg, whose

dried specimens were named and deseribed in 1845 by Dr. Lindley. A second
description, also written by Dr. Lindley, appeared in May, 1846, in Bentham’s “ Plantas
Hartwegianas,” a work begun in 1839 and published in parts ; and the date 1889 on the
title-page as caused the erroneous impression that the plant was first described in that
year. Hartwee states that he discovered the plant in woods at Pitayo and also on the
slopes of Purace near Popayan, at an elevation of 10,000 to 14,500 feet. It was subse-
quently found by other collectors in the same part of the Central Cordillera of Popayan.
No living plants, however, were sent to this country until 1883, when Messrs. Shuttle-
worth and Carder succeeded in importing a small number. The difficulties of importing
plants—and, it is said, especially Wasdecallia racemosa—from such high altitudes, are
humerous. owing chiefly to the great difference of temperature between the cool fresh

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MaspivaLLiA RACEMOSA.

air of their native habitat and the hot steaming atmosphere of the lowlands near the
coast or the navigable rivers. Delays in the tropical heat of various ports have also to
be encountered—four days at Colon, two days at Jamaica, ete.—before the twelve davy’
voyage across the Atlantic is even begun. Pathetic accounts are given by collectors
of the injury sustained by their treasures fermenting rapidly in the intense heat of the
ship’s hold, daily examination revealing the damage done, and necessitating the throwing
overboard of rare plants which would have realised a fortune if brought alive to Europe.

The first drawing of MZ. racemosa was one by Consul Lehmann, published in the
Gardeners’ Chronicle in 1884. He found his specimens growing on the ground, rarely on
trees, in moderately thick woods on the western slopes of the Pdramo de Moras, de las
Delicias, and del Guanaca, at an elevation of 2,900 to 3,800 métres (about 9,416—12,350
feet). ;

The mistaken idea that each flower-stem of JAZ. racemosa produces numerous flowers
expanded at the same time, scems to have originated in the fact that some dried speci-
mens with ten to fourteen flowers carefully arranged upon the dead stalks were exhibited
at the first sale of living plants, in 1883. The number of flowers developed at the same
time never exceeds four and rarely exceeds two; among many specimens, both dried and
living, I have never seen a stem with more than two open flowers. In Consul Lehmann’s
descriptions of wild specimens collected by him, he mentions that the flowers appear in
succession, sometimes as many as eightecn upon one stem.

The structure of AZ. racemosa, and the curious growth of the leaves at intervals along
the creeping rhizomes, distinguish it so clearly from all other known species that it
cannot be classed in any of the sections originated by Professor Reichenbach.

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SECTION X.

REICHENBACHIAN..

‘| Section contains all the species allied to JV. Re

Reichenbach temporarily included among
and are distinguished from the Coriacew bv the
aud leaves. by the deep narrow tube, and by the
of the lateral sepals.

ichenbuchiana, a plant which
the Coriacew, AN ave in cultivation,
less substantial texture of their flowers
carinate veins upon the inner surface
I have chosen the above name for this Section, partly because
ihe type species is a familiar one and easily calls to mind its allies, and partly in honour
of Professor Reichenbach, who named and described more Masdevallias than any other
botanist.

7 species figured :

Masdevallia calura Rehb. f:
demissa Rehb. f.
fulvescens Rolfe.
marginella Rehb tf) (=U. Costaricensis: Rolfe.)
Reichenbachiana Endres.
Rolfeana Kriinzl.
Schroederiana hort. Sander.

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MASDEVALLIA CALURA Rchb. f.

Masprvaniia catura Rehh. f. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. IL, p. 230; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 756.

Leaf about 4 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, margins slightly
recurved. bright green, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele a little longer than the leaves, terete, with two or three sheathing bracts, ascending from
the base of the petiole, dull red; flowering bract about 4 inch long, apiculate, sheathing below, pale

green.
Ovary } inch Jong, with three large and three small rounded angles, shining, dark crimson.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 3 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous
below, free portion very short, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail nearly 2 inches
Jong. lateral sepals cohering for 3 inch, roundly triangular, with three or four keeled nerves, tapering into
slender flattened tails nearly 14 inch Jong ; all dark shining crimson, tails vellow, tipped with orange, and
greenish at the back.

Petals about 4 inch long, fleshy, oval, with a triangular apex, and a small angle a little below, anterior
margin rounded and much thickened, rich crimson, with a white apex and margin.

Lip searcely as long as the petals, fleshy, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge,
pandurate, with two longitudinal keels, apex rounded and reflexed, dark crimson.

Column equalling the petals, white, broadly edged with crimson, foot rich crimson.

Vee CALURA was discovered and introduced into cultivation by

Consul Lehmann, who sent plants to Messrs. Sander in 1882. It grows with .
Reichenbachiana on the western slopes of the Vulcan Irazu, near San Isidro, in Costa
Rica, at an elevation of 1.600 to 2,000 metres (5,200 to 6,500 feet.)

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1. petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—Ja, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—4. column ;—da, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA DEMISsSA Rehb. f. Gard, Chron. 1887, pt. IL, p. 9 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1888, p. 168 ;
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 39.

Leaf 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-spathulate, carinate at the back, leathery, apex tridenticulate, bright
green. narrowing below into a pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncele, including pedicel, about 2 inches long, terete, ascending from within the sheath at the base
of the petiole, with two sheathing bracts, pale green ; flowering bract about 3 inch long, oblong-ovate,
apiculate, sheathing below, pale brownish green.

Ovary } inch long, with six grooves, shining green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 3 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, free
portion very short, triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tail about 1 inch long, bright yellow shaded
with chestnut-brown ; lateral sepals cohering for # inch, triangular-ovate. 3-nerved, terminating in slender
recurved tails nearly 3 inch long, bright chestnut-brown with orange veins, all the tails orange, greenish
at the back.

Petals about 4 inch Jong, oblong, with a rounded angle on the anterior margin, thick and fleshy, dull
crimson-purple, paler at the margin.

Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong-pandurate, with two longitudinal angled keels, hase thick,
crooved, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, apex recurved, dull crimson-brown,
the keels paler.

Column nearly as long as the petals, curved, very narrowly winged, white, foot crimson, apex very

minutely crenate,

MPORTED from the mountains of Costa Rica by Messrs. Shuttleworth and Carder,
of Clapham, about the year 1886, with no record of its exact habitat.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip ;—4. column ;—4a, apex of column ;_ all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA FULVESCENS Rolfe.

MaspEVALLIA FULVESCENS Rolfe. Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. IL, p. 825, fig. 65.

Leaf about 4 inches long, oblong-lanceolote, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, narrowing
below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle 3 inches long, terete, slender, erect from within the sheath at the base of the petiole, pale

green; bract 4 inch long, membranous, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, with a minute rudimentary
bud within at the base, pale green.

Ovary } inch long, with six rounded angles, pale green,

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion
broadly triangular for nearly 4 inch, cucullate, 3-nerved, dull orange-yellow shaded with reddish-crimson,
terminating in a slender, waved. flattened tail 24 or 3 inches long, bright orange, pale greenish-vellow at
the base : lateral sepals cohering for about 1 inch, oblong-triangular, with three prominent nerves, the
spaces between hollowed inwards, white, shaded with pale rose-pink and yellow, tapering into slender,
waved, flattened tails about 2 inches long, bright orange, pale greenish-vellow at the base.

Petals scarcely ] inch long, oblong, very thick and fleshy, margins waved, anterior margin much
thickened, pale pink, with a few small rose-pink spots and a darker central stripe.

Lip a little longer than the petals, fleshy at the base and united by a hinge to the foot of the column,
oblong, with two small longitudinal keels near the centre, apex recurved, very pale pink, with a darker
stripe and a few spots near the apex.

Column a little shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white, with rose-pink

spots.

(iS SDEVALEIS FULVESCENS was imported from Colombia, in 1890, by Messrs.

F. Horsman and Co., of Colchester, and there is no further record of its habitat.
It is closely allied to, if not identical with, Af Schroederiana, which is, however, so much
more beautiful that I have figured it in a separate Plate, treating it—until some more
competent botanist shall decide the question—as a distinct species.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip ;—4. column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA MARGINELLA Rchb. f.

Maspevaiiia MARGINELLA Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1883, pt. IL. p. 38;

Orchidophile (Godefroy)
ISS3. p. 695.

M. Costaricensis Rolfe, Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. IL, p. 183.

Leaf about 4 inches long, obovate-spathulate, tridenticulate, narrowing below into a slender grooved
petiole, sheathed at the base. bright green.

Pedunele 3 or 4 inches long, terete, slender. attenuate below. 1 or 2-Howered, ascending from the
base of the petiole, with one or two sheathing bracts, pale green ; flowering bracts about 4 inch long,
oblong-ovate, membranous, apiculate, sheathing below, dull brownish-green.

Ovary Linch long, with six rounded angles, shining green.

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Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a narrow compressed tube,
gibbous below, free portion very small, triangular, 3-nerved, whitish, tapering into a slender terete tail
about 14, inch long, green at the base and back, brilliant orange-scarlet in the front; lateral sepals
cohering for nearly } inch, broadly ovate-triangular, 3-nerved, all the central nerves carinate on the outer
surface. whitish, with a short central streak of pale vellow, and terminating in slender terete tails about

1} inch long, pale green at the base, front orange-vellow, nerves green.

Petals } inch long, oblong-ovate, thickened on the anterior margin, with 2 small rounded projection
on the opposite side. white.

Lip a little longer than the petals, wide at the base and united by a hinge to the curved foot of the
column, margins recurved, with two angled longitudinal keels near the centre, white, apex much recurved,

pink and vellow, margins dentate.

Column equalling the petals, winged, apex acutely denticulate, white, foot pale yellow.

WN ASDEVALLIA MARGINELLA was imported by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans,

about the year 1882, from the Mountains of Costa Rica. It grows with J.
Reichenbuchiana and M. calura, to both of which plants it is closely allied. In 1890 it
Was again described, as a new species, by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, of the Royal Herbarium,
Kew. under the name JZ. Costaricensis, from specimens in the collection of Mr. Sydney
Courtauld.

In separating WZ. marginella from the Coriacew, with which Reichenbach classed it,
Lam not differing altogether from his opinion, for, in his account of AZ. Reichenbachiana,
Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. [L., p. 257, he says of that species: “This interesting Masdevallia
one might introduce as belonging to the Coriace group, provided one does not think
it better to make of it a new group, on account of its funnel-shaped tube, narrowed at
the base, very slender tails, and thin texture.”

There ean be no doubt of the affinity between JL marginella and M. Reichenbachiana,
and they must therefore be classed together, with others also closely allied, such as
M. calura, M. Roljeana, &e. Several of the species included in this group were not
introduced until after Reichenbach’s death, in 1889, and had he known them all he
would probably have classed them in a new Section. His words, quoted above, well
describe the differences between flowers of this Section and those of the Coriacee.
The leaves differ chiefly in being more slender in the petiole, less rigid, and wider
in proportion to their length. These characteristics will be well seen by comparing
the leaves of JL leontoglossa with those of M. marginella.

Explanation of Plate :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf,

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MASDEVALLIA REICHENBACHIANA Endres.

MASDEVALLIA REICHENBACHIANA Endres in Gard. Chron, 1873, pt. IL, p. 257 ; 1879, pt. I., p. 559; 1881,
pt. IL, p. 336; 1883. pt. IL, p. 360 (var. aurantiaca Rehb. f.) ; Orchidophile (Godefroy), vol. I.
(1881), p. 97; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 60 ; Lindenia vol. VI. (1890), p. 23, pl. CCL.

M. Normanni hort., syn. fide Rehb. f. Gard, Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 230.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, 2 or 1 inch wide, oblanceolate, carinate, tridenticulate, narrowing below into
a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green, the two principal nerves paler.

Peduncle 6 or 7 inches long, terete, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole, 1 to
3-flowered, bright green ; bract about 4 inch long, sheathing below, ovate-apiculate above, bright green.

Ovary about 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, dark brown or greenish.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 1 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion
triangular for about 2 inch, 3-nerved, inner surface pale yellow with red nerves, outer surface rich dark red
or claret-crimson, almost scarlet at the base, tapering into a slender recurved tail about 2 inches long,
greenish-yellow ; lateral sepals cohering for 1} inch, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, nerves bifurcating and
strongly carinate, inner surface pale lemon-yellow or pearly pink, tinged with red near the outer margin,
outer surface pale yellow, crimson, and red, tails 14 inch long, slender, pale green.

Petals } inch long, oblong-ovate, anterior margin much thickened, ivory-white.

Lip 4 inch long, oblong-pandurate, with two short longitudinal keels, ivory-white, apex narrow,
recurved, pale yellow.

Column } inch long, winged, ivory-white, apex denticulate, pale yellow.

i Eee REICHENBACHIANA was discovered in 1878 in the mountains
of Costa Rica, by Endres, who named it in honour of Professor Reichenbach.
Imported plants first flowered at Little Stanmore, Middlesex, in 1875, in the collection
of the Rev. J. B. Norman, who, under the impression that the plant was a new species,

named it MZ. Normanni.

The flowers vary greatly in colour, the outer surface being sometimes of so dark a
shade of red as to appear almost black, and sometimes of every shade of crimson or
purplish-red. The inner surface of the flowers is of an extremely delicate shade of pearly
pink, the effect of the deep colour of the outer surface seen through the semi-transparent
tissues of the sepals. The flowers last a long time in perfection, a second and even a third
flower expanding before the first fades.

In the variety named awrantiaca by Professor Reichenbach, the dark red is replaced

by rich orange.
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Of the habitat of this species Consul Lehmann gives more detailed information than
any hitherto published :

M. Reichenbachiana is distributed over the Central Cordillera of Costa Rica, between
the Vulcan de Barba and the Pico Blanco, at an elevation of 1,600 to 2,200 meétres (5,200
to 7,150 feet). It grows on trees in dense and damp woods, in an average summer
temperature of 17° to 19° Centigrade (about 62° to 66° Fahrenheit), and an average Winter
temperature of 15°.5 to 17°.5 Centigrade (about 60° to 63° Fahrenheit). |

I first observed it in 1878, on the western slopes of the Vulcan Frazui near San Isidro:
also on the mountain range between Cartago and San Pedro; on the mountains between
Desamparados and San Cristobal; and in the Montana Dota. From these localities |
sent a few living plants to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., of Clapton. The first large
consignment of living plants was sent by me to Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, in 1882.
with plants of JZ. calura and A. erythrochate, from the same localities.

F. C. LEHMANN.

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MASDEVALLIA ROLFEANA Kranz.

Masprvatiia Rotrraxa Kriinz. Gard, Chron, 1891, pt. 1., p. 488.

Leaf about 5 inches long and 3 inch wide, obovate, thick and fleshy, carinate at the back, apex
obtusely tridenticulate, dark shining green, narrowing helow into a slender grooved pale green petiole,
sheathed at the base.

Pedunele, including pedicel, about 3 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath at

the base of the petiole, bright green ; bract } inch long, ovate, apiculate. brownish, sheathing below, with
a minute rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary | inch long. with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly } inch, forming a wide tube, yellow at the
base. free portion about 2 inch long, ovate-triangular, cucullate, 3-nerved, dark claret-crimson, terminating
ina slender green and yellow tail about 14 inch long ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 1 inch, oblong-
oval, 3-nerved. purplish-crimson, terminating in slender tails about 14 inch long, vellow and green.

Petals about } inch long, linear at the base, oblong-oval, apiculate, thick and fleshy, with an obtuse
keel on the anterior margin. dark purplish-erimson, paler towards the apex.

Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong, apiculate, fleshy at the base and united to the curved foot
of the column by a flexible hinge, with two lateral longitudinal keels, pinkish, with brighter spots, apex
fleshy. recurved, crimson.

Colum a little longer than the petals, narrowly winged, white, apex denticulate.

1) ees ROLFEANA was first described by Dr. F. Kranzlin in 1891. It
was imported by Mr. F. Sander, with other species of the same section, from
the Central Cordillera of Costa Rica.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1. petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—Ja, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

3. lip 4. colunm :—da. apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA SCHROEDERIANA Hort.

MaASpEVALLIA ScurRoEDERIANA, Tort. Sander, 1890.

Leal 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, narrowing below
into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Pedunele 7 or 8 inches long, terete, slender, erect from within the sheath at the base of the petiole,

pale green ; bract about 3 inch long, membranous, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, with a minute

rudimentary bud within at the base, pale green,

Ovary 3 inch long, with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 2 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion
broadly triangular for nearly | inch, eucullate, 5-nerved, rich orange-vellow shaded with crimson, with
two dark crimson spots. terminating ina slender tail about 2 inches long, rich orange, pale greenish-yellow
at the hase: Iateral sepals cohering for more than 1 inch, oblong-triangular, 3-nerved, the nerves
prominent, the spaces between hollowed inwards, white, with a broad border of rose-crimson on the outer
Inargin, terminating in slender tails about 12 inches long, rich orange, pale greenish-vellow at the base.

Petals | inch long. oblong. very thick and fleshy, margins waved, pale pink, with rose-coloured spots
and a darker central stripe.

Lip a little longer than the petals. fleshy at the base and united to the foot of the column by a hinge,
oblong. with two small longitudinal keels near the centre, apex recurved, pale pink, with a few darker

spots and a central line near the apex.

Column a little shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white, with pink spots.

BE a botanical species there seems no reason to separate Masdevallia Schroederiana

from MW. fulvescens, intermediate forms, one of which is shown at fig. 6 of the
accompanying Plate, connecting the two very closely. The structure of the two plants
is remarkably alike, and a description of one would apply equally well to the other,
differences occurring only in size and in richness of colouring. Unfortunately, no
botanical description of JZ, Schroederiana was published at the time of its first appear-
ance in Mr. Sander’s collection, although it was, and still is, advertised in his catalogue
under this name. The Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society awarded
a First-class Certificate, July sth, 1890, to a plant then shown in flower by Baron
Schroeder, whose name it bears, but it was not until September of the same year that
Mr. Rolfe named and described AL fiulrescens in the ‘ Gardeners’ Chronicle.” The
name JW. Schroederiana has therefore the priority, although the plant was not botanically
described, and it is to be regretted that this, the first introduced and finest form of
the species, should not be considered the type. L have therefore decided to give a
separate Plate of extreme forms of this plant, leaving it for future decision whether
they should be considered distinct, or merely varieties of one species. Its habitat and
discoverer are unknown,

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. J. petal. lip. and column, in natural position ;—Ia, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip s— 3a. apex of lip ;—4, column ;—da, apex of columm 3 a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf;

—(. variety 3: natural size.

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SECTION XI.

SACCOLABIATAZ Rchb. f.

A MOST distinct Section, differing so essentially from the type of Afasderallia, that

Reichenbach would have been justified in forming it into another Genus, a course
which he appears to have at one time contemplated. Many of the plants included in
it are so extremely variable, and have in consequence received so many names, that it
is difficult to decide which are species and which varieties.

12 species and two varieties figured :

Masdevallia bella Rehb. f.
Carderi Rehb. f.
Chestertonii Rehb. f. (=AL. macrochila Regel.)
Chimera Rehb. f.
Chinvera var. Backhousiana.
Chimera var. Roezlii.
erythrochwete Rehb. f. (=. astuta Rehb. f. et M. Gaskelliana Rehb. f:)
Houtteana Rehb. f. (=. Benedicti Rehb. f. et M. psittacina Rehb. f.)
nycterina Rehb f.
pusilla Rolfe.
radiosa Rehb. f.
trinema Rehb. f. (=AZ. Lowii Rolfe.)
Troglodytes Rehb. f.
Vespertilio Rehb. f.

Varieties of M. Chimera not figured in this work :
M. Chimera‘car, Burbidgeana Rolfe Orch, Rev, 1893, p. 265,
dolosa Leehb. ft. MS.
Gorgoua Lind. Cat, 1878.
xenilis Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1885, pt. IL, p. 489.
aevera Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1875, pt. 1, p. 170.
aplendida, hort.
Wallisii Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1875, pt. 1, p. 238.
Winniana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. 11., p. 198.

Not in cultivation :

M. microglochin Rehb. f, Flora (Singer ), 1886, p. 658.
platycrater Rehb. f. Flora (Singer), 1886, p. 559.
Spectrum Tchh. f. Gard. Chron. IS75, pt. LL, p. 429,
Tubeana Rehh. f. Gard. Chron, 1878, pt. 1, p. 234.

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MASDEVALLIA BELLA Rechb. f.

MaspEVALLIA BELLA Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. 1878, pt. I, p. 725; 1880, pt. L., p. 760, fig. 131 p. 756,
and fig. 132 p. 757; 1881, pt. ID., p. 236, fig. 50, and p. 846; Floral Mag. 1881, n. ser., t. 433 ;
Belgique Horticole, 1884, vol. XXXIV. p. 57, t. 3.

Leaf 6 or 8 inches long, and about 1 inch broad, oblong-lanceolate, sharply tridenticulate, carinate,
bright green, narrowing into a slender, deeply-grooved, pale-green petiole, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 6 or 7 inches long, attenuate towards the base, terete, jointed, with a sheathing bract at
each joint, dark purple, or dull green shaded with purple, descending from the base of the petiole ;
flowering bract about } inch long, with several nerves, carinate, apiculate, pale green shaded with purple
or crimson.

Ovary about 4 inch Jong, attenuate near the base, with six crenate wings, green and purple.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 4 inch, 7-nerved, triangular for 1 inch or
more, tapering into a slender tail 34 inches long ; lateral sepals cohering for about 1 inch, 7-nerved, ovate.
tapering into slender tails 3 inches Jong, sometimes curved inwards 80 as to cross each other; all sepals
pale yellow, bordered and spotted with crimson, and covered with short thick hairs, inner half of the
lateral sepals scarcely spotted ; tails all purple-crimson.

Petals } inch long, linear at the base, angled on both margins, cleft at the apex, outwardly broadly
winged, inwardly triangular and denticulate, bright yellow spotted with rust-red, outer wing with
numerous radiating lines of minute papille.

Lip about }, inch long, and # inch broad, with a slender, fleshy, deeply-grooved claw, united by a
delicate hinge to the base of the column, reniform and concave, with numerous radiating and bifurcating
keels, white with pale pink spots upon the claw.

Column about 4 inch long, thick, curved, rust-red, pink at the base, apex minutely denticulate.

NipSDEvALLs BELLA is one of the most curious of the genus, and may be

distinguished from all other species by the delicate whiteness of the shell-like
lip, and the rounded, wide-spreading yellow wings of the petals. Unlike most species
allied to it, AZ. bella apparently produces only one flower from each stem. It was
discovered in 1873 by Gustav Wallis, in the mountains of Antioquia, and his dried
specimens were sent to Professor Reichenbach, who, however, published his first deserip-
tion of the species from other specimens, collected in 1878 by Boxall. The first living
flowers seen in Europe were in the collection of Herr Wendland, at Hamburgh.

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MASDEVALLIA BELLA.

We are indebted to Consul Lehmann for the following information :

Masadevallia bella has but a limited geographical distribution, having been hitherto
observed only in the vicinity of Frontino and Urrao, on the western declivities of the
Western Cordilleras of Antioquia. It grows on trees, and also on the ground, in damp
and shady woods, at an elevation of 1,600 to 2,200 métres (5,200 to 7,150 feet), and
flowers in October and November. The annual average temperature of the whole region
ranges from 15°°9 to 19°°4 Centigrade (about 60° to 67° Fahrenheit). The atmosphere
in the entire region is highly saturated with moisture nearly the whole year round. The
driest months of the year are January to March, and July and August, during which the
average humidity is 75° per cent. ; while for the rest of the year the average is 86° per
cent.
F. C. LeHMaAnn.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, front of lip, both slightly enlarged ;—2, section
of ovary ;—3, petal, inner side ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column, al/ much enlarged ;—5, apex and
section of leaf, natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA CARDERI Rchb. f.

Masprvaniia Canpent Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1883, pt. I., p. 784 5. pt. IL, p. 181, fig. 30; 1884, pt. L.,
p. TAL, in group fig. 141 ; 1890, pt. IL, p. 763 Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 397 ; Veitch
Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 275 Bot. Mag. t. 7125 (1890).

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, bright green,
narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

e, descending or lateral from the base of the petiole, terete, slender, with

Peduncle 2 or 3 inches long
numerous small sheathing apiculate bracts, dark green and crimson ; flowering bract about @ inch long,

oblong-ovate, carinate, apiculate, 3-nerved, sheathing, pale green.

Ovary nearly | inch long, crimson, with six crenate green wings.
about 4 inch, campanulate, free portion triangular-ovate for nearly 2 inch,
the principal nerves carinate, white tinged with pale yellow, spotted externally with purplish-crimson, the
internal surface closely covered with short red-brown hairs, and having a few small purple spots, each
long, yellow with small crimson spots.

Sepals cohering equally for

sepal terminating in very slender tails about 1 inch

Petals about 4 inch Jong, oblong-ovate, cleft at the apex, with minute papille within the cleft,

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yellowish, with red-brown spots and papille.

Lip about } inch long, fleshy at the base and deeply cleft, united to the foot of the column by a
flexible hinge, anterior portion concave, shell-like, with a fleshy central keel, pure white.
Cohunn Linch long, winged, apex denticulate, white, tinged with reddish-brown.

i Eee VALLIA CARDERI was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1883,
from specimens found by Carder near Frontino, in the Western Cordillera of

Colombia, and his plants were the first to flower in cultivation, in the establishment of

Messrs. Shuttleworth and Carder, at Clapham.

Professor Reichenbach had previously received dried flowers of this species from
Consul F. C. Lehmann, who discovered it in November, 1877, and it is impossible to
say why he published no description of these, the first specimens ever sent to Europe.

The plant represented in the accompanying Plate is the variety with long slender
tails. most common in cultivation. Fig. 6 of the same Plate represents the rarer variety
with short blunt tails, and was drawn from a flower sent to me in June, 1889, by Mr. F.
W. Moore, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin.

I am informed by Consul Lehmann that the leaves of the wild plants having thick

and short-tailed flowers, differ from those of the slender long-tailed variety in being

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip,
petal, side view ;—3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ;
natural size +—6. flower of short-tailed variety, natural size.

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longer, thicker, and more acuminate, while the flowers are of thicker texture and more
tubular. These characteristics I find to be also present in cultivated plants. The two
forms can only be regarded as local varieties, their variation probably accounted for by
the different elevation and temperature of the localities in which they grow.

I have received the following note from Consul Lehmann :

The variety of Masdevallia Carderi with long slender tails comes from the neighbourhood of the
Rio Dagua, in the Western Andes of Cali, in the State of Cauca, Colombia, where it fYows on trees in
dense, very damp woods at an elevation of 400 to 800 métres (1,300 to 2,600 feet), in a temperature of
24° and 25° Centigrade (about 75° to 77° Fahrenheit).

The short-tailed variety is found in Antioquia, where it grows on trees in dense shrubby woods on
the Irac:il and Musinga mountains between Dabeiba and Frontino, at a greater elevation, SOU to 1,400

metres (2,600 to 4,550 feet) ; and in a lower temperature, only 21° to 22° Centigrade (about 69° to 7]
Fahrenheit).

The climate of both localities is very damp, and the rainfall is profuse and constant. There is no
really dry season in these regions, but during the months of July and August, and of January and
February, the rains are not so heavy and frequent as during the other months of the year.

Ina wild state Af. Carderi flowers from October until December, and during May and June.

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MASDEVALLIA CHESTERTONII Rchb. f.

Masprvarua Cirsrertosn Rehb, f. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. L, p. 532; Orchidophile (Godefroy)
vol. 1. (1885), p. 623; Bot. Mag. 6977. ‘

Leaf 5 or 6 inches long, 1 or 1} inch wide, oblong, earinate, acutely tridenticulate. bright green,
narrowing into a slender, erooved, pale ereen petiole, with wide membranous sheaths at the base.

Peduncle 3 or 4 inches long, horizontal, or descending from the base of the petiole, terete, with

numerous sheathing bracts, dull green sometimes marked with purple ; producing two or three flowers,
each flower falling off before the expansion of the next; flowering bract about } inch long, 3-nerved,
apiculate, carinate, light green.

Ovary | inch long, terete, with six grooves, curved, dull green or purple.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for } ineh, oblong-ovate for about { inch, 7-nerved,
crect, margins retlexed ; Jateral sepals coliering for nearly J inch, roundly ovate, 7-nerved ; all pale green,
spotted with dark purple, and with numerous small purple papilke, and terminating in slender flattened
rails about 4 inch long, dark purple or greenish.

Petals nearly inch Jong, yellow with dark brown spots, linear at the base, diverging at the apex
into two wings, the outer rounded, the inner triangular, having between them an angled wart-shaped
process, dik brown and shining.

Lip about Linch wide, with a Jone claw, concave in the centre, with a fleshy lobe on each side, united
by x hinge to the foot of the column, anterior portion reniform, with a prominent reddish central keel and
5 munerous radiating ones, which bifwreate near the margin, flesh-pink, shaded with deep rust-red.

Cohann } inch Jong, much earved, narrowly winged, white or very pale green spotted with crimson,

apex mninutely denticulare

‘| AM informed by Consul Lehinann that Wesdecallia Chestertonti was discovered in

ITM, on the western slopes of the Farrallones de Cali, in the State of Cauca, by
Chesterton, who was sent eut to collect Orchids by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans. A
later date and a different locality are usually assigned to it. The colour of the flowers
varies in different specimens, some being green with crimsou-purple spots, and others
yellowish with blackish-purple spots. The shell-like lip, resembling in shape that of
Mo bella. is Sometimes a delicate pink. sometimes pale pinkish-yellow, more or less
shaded and veined with deep ved. The petals differ remarkably from those of M. bella.
its nearest ally, having at their apex a thick, shining, dark-brown knob, instead of the

spreading vellow wings so characteristic of that species.

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Masderallia Chestertonii crows on trees, and sometimes alsa on the ground, tu dense and
very damp woods on the western slopes of the Farrallones de Cali, tn the departiicnt of
the Cauea, atan elevation of L800 to 2.200 metres (5.850 to 7150 feet) It isalso tound
on the Cerro de Calima, west of Buga, and above Anserma Nueva and the Arraval:
but it does net extend into Antioquia, It flowers in April and May. and also in October
and November. The annual average temperature of the region is between TG and
IN’ Centignide (60-8 to 64-4 Fahrenheit).
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Explanition of Plate. drawn froma plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, ip, and columm, in natural position ;—2, side of petal ;—2a. petal, inner side ;—.. lips

4. column j—da, apex of column 5 a// enlarged ;—A, apes and section of leat, watiyral size

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MASDEVALLIA CHIMERA Rchb. f.

Maspevatiia Cnimera Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 463 ; 1875, pt. 1, p. 40, fig. 5; pt. I 233
and 2585 ISSI, pt. I, p. 463; pt. IL, p. 112. fig. 26, also p. 236; 1884, pt. 1, re! ee
fir. 141, p. 741; Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 2; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 355; XXV, (R75) :
p- 820; XXVIL (1876), p. 116; XXXIL (1882), p. 313, t. XI; Mustr. Hort. 1873 p 25,
t. 117-118 CM. nycterina); Xen. Orch. IL. (1874), p. 195, t. 185 and 186, fig. I.; Bot. Mac: t. 6159
(1875); Floral Mag. n. s. 1875, t. 149; Linea XLI. (1877), p. 8; De Puvdt, Les Orch. (1880)
p. 285, pl. XXILL (CM. nycterina) ; Revue Hort. 1881, p. 130, with fig. ; Orchidophile (Godetoy),
vol. I. (ISS1-3), p. 78, with fig. ; Orch. Album (Warn. et Will.), V. (1886), t. 203 ; Garienfions
(Regel), ISS9, p. 617, t. 1311; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 30.

Leaf S or 10 inches long and 14 to 2 inches wide, oblanceolate, sometimes plicate, carinate at the
back. apex acutely tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a pale green petiole with brown
membranous sheaths at the base.

Pedunele 9 to 18 inches long, terete, wiry, erect, lateral, or descending from the base of the petiole,
dark green or dull purple, with many appressed bracts, flowers two to six, opening in succession, each
falling off before the expansion of the next, the peduncle lengthening as each bud developes, flowering
bracts oblong-ovate, acutely apiculate, sheathing below, bright green.

Ovary about 3 inch long, with six rounded angles, dull green or purplish.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 4 inch; lateral sepals cohering for about
14 inch. deeply curved at the back ; all ovate for 2 or 24 inches and terminating in slender tapering dark
purple tails 4 to 10 inches long; many-nerved, central nerves prominent on the outer side; various shades
of primrose, cream, or ochre yellow; stained and spotted with crimson-purple, more or Jess bright, and
thickly stndded with coarse tapering hairs, the spots and hairs hecoming very small near the centre.

Petals i, inch long, spathulate, the apex divided into two rounded lobes, between which is a mass of
shining papille, white and crimson or purple.

Lip about # inch Jong. the basal part fleshy, grooved, shining, united to the foot of the column by a
Hexible hinge. the anterior part saccate, with one or three central longitudinal keels, more or less
prominent. with numerous rays diverging towards the margin, where they terminate in strong incurved

teeth ; white, pinkish, or pale yellow, more or less tinged and shaded with rust-colour.

Column rather longer than the petals. pale yellow or whitish, apex minutely denticulate, foot pale pink.

hy (eee LLLA CHIM-ERA was discovered in March 1870, by Roezl, at Choco, in

the Western Andes of Colombia, 7,400 feet above the level of the sea, and from
one badly dried flower and a coloured sketeh sent by him, Professor Reichenbach named
the plant. No living specimens were introduced until some time afterwards, the first
which flowered in cultivation being apparently those sent to Reichenbach by Mr. Bull

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip. and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

2a. side of petal ;—3, lip —4, column ;—da, apex of column 5 a// enlarged ;—. apex and section of leaf ;

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in 1875. Both Roezl and Wallis, while collecting JZ Chimera, observed its extreme
Variability, but although several varieties sent home by them reecived specific names
from Reichenbach, he seems never to have quite decided whether to treat them as
distinet species, or as forms of the original A/. Chimara of Roezl. The varieties now in
cultivation are so numerous that they form a tolerably consecutive serics, and it is well
known that throughout the vast geographical range of the species many other varieties
exist, a fact which sets at rest all doubt as to the polymorphous character of the plant.

In order to realise the wonderful variation of J/. Chimera, anyone interested in
the subject could not do better than visit the rich collection brought together at
Glasnevin, Dublin, by Mr. F. W. Moore, to whom [am indebted for many beautiful and
curious varieties. It is proposed to figure in the present work a few of those best known
in cultivation, and by dealing with cach one separately, the number can be added to at
any time. The plant here represented was imported by Mr. Bull, and was one of the
first to flower in this country. The seed-capsule, fig. 6, was drawn from a specimen at
the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, dried after the edges had split open
and allowed the seeds to escape, thus showing the hair-like threads by which the seeds
were attached to the inner surface of the capsule. The structure of every part of the
flower presents interesting and peculiar characteristics, the uses of which in the life-
history of the plant can only be surmised. The abundance of ripe seeds produced by
wild plants of AZ. Chimera seems to prove that some of the organs within the flower are
effective in attracting insects, although there is no honey or other tempting fluid to act
asa lure. The successive development of the flowers may possibly be designed as an
additional means to ensure the production of seed; if one flower fails, another can be
rapidly expanded, until all the buds have been developed, and every opportunity has
been given for the appearance of the insect necessary to fertilise the seed. In a
cultivated state, when the flowers have but a small chance of fertilisation by insects and
therefore rarely produce seed, the stem goes on developing flower after flower in
uninterrupted succession, each one fading and falling off before the expansion of the
succeeding bud. This is shown in the accompanying Plate by the stem bearing oue bud
and four small stalks, from each of which both flower and seed-capsule have fallen. In
the wild specimen shown at fig. 6, the second bud may be seen in quite an elementary
stage of growth, the first flower having probably been fertilised by some inscet, and the
effort required by the plant to ripen the seed having temporarily arrested the growth of
the next bud.

The following note is contributed by Consul Lehmann, whose botanical researches
during a long residence among the mountains of Colombia entitle him to be considered
the greatest authority upon the flora of that region.

Masdevallia Chimera has a larger geographical distribution than any other species of its section,
extending in an uninterrupted linc from 0°30" to 8° N. lat., or about 400 miles, along the western declivities
of the Western Andes of Colombia. It is chietly confined to the western slopes, but at the most northern
limit of its range it is also found on the central mountains of the Departments of Bolivar and Antioquin,
From 1,700 to 2,200 metres (5,525 to 7,150 feet) above the level of the sen is the limit of its vertices!
range, and it occurs most frequently at just- 2.000 metres (6.500 fect). Tt grows in damp thick shids
woods, chiefly on the ground, or upon the base of the trunks of large trees. Sometimes it is met with
upon damp shady walls of rock, if they are not much covered with ferns or other vegetation. When
found high up on trees, which is rarely the casc, it chooses situations in which decayed Jenves and mosses
have accumulated. The climate of the whole region is very damp, and as there are very few days in the
year without rain the atmosphere is almost saturated with moisture. The annual incan temperature
ranges between 16° and 18°.5 Centigrade (about 60° to 65° Fahrenheit).

M. Chimera varies very much in colour, form, and size, Which might be considered the natural
its very extensive geographical distribution had not actual observation |
having the ground colour of the

consequence of woved that

different varieties grow mixed together in nearly every locality, some
flowers dull white, and others greenish yellow. The size of the flowers,
locality. At the northern limit of its range, the vicinity of La Bramadora, |

however, differs much in cach

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Howers are smallest and the ground colour of the sepals is whitish, seme pure white at the connection of
the lateral sepals. The plants growing on the watershed of the Cordillera between Toyo and Canasgordas,
on the slopes of the Morrogacho and the Alto de las Alegrias near Abriaqui, and on the Cerro Plateado

near Frontino, produce flowers of a good medium size. Their colour is here most variable. At Tovo

there isa variety with flowers of a peculiar reddish colour stained with copper-brown and borne on stiff
upright stalks. In the plants growing on the Cerro Plateado near Frontino, the flowers are tiger-like,
thickly speckled (not blotched) with blackish-brown on a light yellow ground. From the Cerro de
Caramanta, southwards by the Altos de Talmami, and the Cerro de Calima as far as the Farallones de
Cali, VW. Chimera grows mixed with A. Chestertonii. The variety growing here may be considered to be
the type of the species, for it was near the latter place, on the Cordillera de San Antonio above Cali, that
Roez| first met with it. Both the vellow and the whitish variety grow intermixed here. The latter as a
rule produces the largest flowers, while the yellow form is more substantial and decidedly prettier. The
largest flowered variety grows at a place called Bellavista, on a narrow rocky range of mountains
projecting from the Cerro Munchique, in the Western Andes of Popayiin, and running north-west towards
Meneheque and Micay on the Pacific. The plants here grow chiefly on rocks among sphagnum moss,
and bear upright flower-stalks, which often attain the length of 25 to 35 centimétres (about 10 to 14
inches), thus raising the flowers up above the Jeaves. Roezl’s statement, that he found plants with
flower-stalks two feet long, is an exaggeration. Near the frontier of Ecuador on the road from Tuquerres
to Barbacoas. near the little village of Pususquer, there grows a variety with flowers streaked rather than
blotched with blackish-brown, but the characteristic lip of the species remains unmodified. The plant
here represented is found in the Western Andes of Cali, in Cauca.

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MASDEVALLIA CHIMA:RA Rehb. f. var. BACKHOUSIANA.

Maspevannia Cipcera var. Backhouseana Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889) p. 30.

Mo Backhousiana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1879, pt. L, p. 7163 pt. IL, ps L143 V8sis pt. IL,
p. 286; Garden 1879. pt. L. pp. 442 and 455; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 84;
Reichenbachia vol. 1. (SSS), p. 43. t. 19.

HIS handsome variety of J. Chimera was discovered in 1871, near Frontino in
Antioquia, by Butler, a collector for Messrs. Backhouse of York, and it has also
been found further south, on the Western Andes of Popaydn. It was provisionally
named by Professor Reichenbach as a distinet species, with the remark that. if
“connecting links ” should appear between this and other forms of JZ. Chimera, the
plant must be regarded as merely a variety. Connecting links have indeed appeared in
the shape of numerous forms and varieties of this most variable plant subsequently
imported from many localities in the Western Cordilleras of Colombia.

The leaves of rar, Backhousiana closely resemble those of M. Chimera, but are rather
narrower and less plicate. The sepals are usually rounder, paler, and less closely spotted,
and the tails are comparatively short, the stems also being short and never erect. The
rays within the lip—which, in this variety, is almost white—also show slight differences,
but this characteristic does not appear to be constant, even in flowers from the same
plant. and is not therefore of much value in distinguishing one variety from another.
I am informed by Consul Lehmann that the plant here figured is found at Bramadora
and Bricenio, in Antioquia, and that it is often much paler in colour.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhattle Abbey :

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Masprvatiia CHicera var, Rorzin. Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 31.

M. Roezlii Rebh, £. Xen. Orch. II. (1874), p. 196, t. 186, fig. IL; Belg. Hort. 1875, p. 319; Linnwa XLI.
(1877), p. 95 Gard. Chron, 1880, pt. IL, p. 778; 188], pt. IL, p. 337 ; Lindenia vol. I. (1885), pl.
XV... p. 35 (non Rehb. f.). ;

Sub-rar, rubra Warn, et Will. Orch, Album vol. VI. (1887), t. 243.

HE habitat of WW. Chimera var. Roezlii is Froutino in Antioquia, on the slopes of the
Cerro Plateado, and the Mucinga districts, and it was probably there that Roezl
discovered it, although no exact locality is given by Professor Reichenbach in his first
description from Roezls specimens in 1874. It is the darkest in colour ofall the varieties
of Me Chimera, the black-purple spots being suffused over almost the whole surface of
the sepals. The most remarkable variation in car, Roezlii from the type is the absence
of long hairs upon the sepals, these being replaced by numerous short warts or asperities.
The lip is wider and shallower than in Jf. Chimera, and pale pink with no tinge of
yellow. Tt was probably these marked characteristics which led Professor Reichenbach
to consider WW. Roezlii a distinct species, while he admitted that his M7. Backhousiana
might ultimately prove to be only a variety. Sub-varieties of var. Roez/ii are numerous,
less spotted or paler in colour, the brightest being sub-var. rubra, in which the spots are
chocolate-crimson instead of black.

Explanation of Plate. drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1. petal, lip. and column, in natural position ; 1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, side view ;—
Ya. petal. inner side : 3. lip :—4. column :—da. apex and section of column ; all enlarged ;—A, apex and

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MASDEVALLIA ERYTHROCHATE Rchb. f.

MASDEVALLIA ERYTHROCHATE Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. IL, p. 392 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1882,
p. 423 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889) p. 42. ;

Tar, Gaskelliana=Masdevallia Gaskelliana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. IL, p. 294; Orchidophile
(Godefroy) 1884, p. 37 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 44.

Tur, astuta=Masdevallia astula Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1886, pt. IL, p. 584; Orchidophile (Godefroy)
IS88, p. 354; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 25.

Leaf 6 or 8 inches long. linear-lanceolate, carinate, acutely tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing
below into a grooved petiole. sheathed at the base.

Peduncle about 5 inches long, terete, slender, jointed, with a sheathing apiculate bract at each joint,
lateral or descending from the base of the petiole, with two or three flowers expanding in succession, dull
purplish-green ; flowering bract about 3 inch long, ovate-apiculate, sheathing below, pale green.

Ovary nearly 4 inch long, curved, with six rounded angles, crimson-purple.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for | inch, forming a wide shallow cup, free portion
triangular-ovate for about inch ; lateral sepals cohering for 4 inch, rounded beneath, free portions
triangular-ovate for more than 3 inch ; all creamy white, tinged with yellow, and more or less spotted
with crimson-purple, the inner surface covered with small elongated papilla, with numerous nerves, of
which the central ones are prominent on the outer surface, terminating in slender terete crimson-purple
tails 1 or 2 inches long.

Petals about 4 inch long, oblong, margins angled, apex bilobed, with a mass of minute dark-
brown papille within the cleft, white or pale pink, with a few brown spots, apex yellowish.

Lip about 4 inch long, curved and fleshy at the base, and united to the foot of the column by a very
flexible hinge. deeply grooved, the anterior portion saceate, with three central keels and five or six
smaller bifurcated keels radiating towards the toothed margin, very pale pink, sometimes nearly white,
with a very few pale pink spots.

Colunin a little longer than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, pale vellow.

HE first specimens of Musdecallia erythrochete were introduced from Central
America by Mr. Sander, of St. Albans, in 1882. Numerous varieties are now
known, and two of these were named by Reichenbach as distinct species—AZ. astuta,
brought from Costa Rica by Carder, and AL, Gaskelliana, a plant with smaller leaves and
flowers, of which the habitat is unknown. One beautiful variety has much wider leaves
than the plant here represented, and larger flowers, which are nearly white, delicately
tinged with sulphur-yellow, and with only a few bright crimson spots, the tails being
reddish-crimson and the lip pink. The accompanying woodcut is from a photograph of
this variety.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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Yu, petal, side ;—3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf,

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Plants of AZ. erythrochwte with very long narrow leaves have been found in Costa
Rica by Consul Lehmann, growing on the Candelaria Mountains, and very closely
allied specimens have also been found by him in Antioquia. It is propably a species of
wide geographical distribution, extending in varying forms from Costa Rica southwards
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MASDEVALLIA HOUTTEANA Rchb. f.

Masprvatiaia Hourreaxa Rehb. f, Gard. Chron, 1874, pt. IL, p. 98 (July); 1881, pt. I, p. 305;
Flore des Serres vol. XX. (1874), p. 87, t. 2106; Veitch Maal Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 45.

M. Benedicti Relb. f. Xen, Orch, HW. (1874). p. 197, t. 186, figs. ITI. and 1V, (December) ; Linnwa
XLI. (1877). p. 9; Gard. Chron, 1881, pt. IL. p. 236.

VM. psittacina Rebb. tf. Gard. Chron, 1876, pt. T.. p. 8175 1881, pt. IL, p. 336.

Leal G or 8 inches long and about } inch wide, linear, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, bright
ereen, the petiole very little narrower than the blade, pale green, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele. including pedicel, 4 or 5 inches long, terete, slender, descending or lateral from the base of
the petiole, with numerous short apiculate sheathing bracts, dull green marked with dark purple ;
Howering bract about § inch long, ovate. apiculate, sheathing below, with a minute bud within at the base,
yreenish,

Ovary about 3 inch Jong, with six rounded angles, dull crimson,

Sepals; dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion
about $ inch long. ovate-triangular, d-nerved ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 1 inch, free portions
roundly triangular : all cream-colour tinged with vellow, with numerous small crimson spots and short
thick hairs or papille, and terminating in dull crimson tails about 14 or 2 inches long.

Petals about 4 inch long, oblong. angled on the margin, whitish, with crimson spots on the inner
surface. apex bilobed. with a mass of minute papillae between the lobes, outer lobe yellow, inner white.
Lip about 2 inch long, curved and fleshy at the base, with a deep oval hollow in the centre, united to

the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, rounded, shell-like. with a prominent central keel and several
smaller radiating keels, sometimes bitureating near the margin. pale shell-pink.

Column about | inch long, white at the base, apex yellow, minutely denticulate or entire.

N ASDEVALLLA HOUTTEANA was discovered by Roezl near Frontino in the

Western Cordilleras of Antioquia, at an elevation of 8,000 feet, and his dried
specimens were named by Professor Reichenbach in 1874. Like most of its allies,
M. Houtteane is a variable species, and local varieties subsequently found by Roezl and
other collectors, received from Reichenbach the specific names of Benedicti and paittacina.

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They differ slightly from the type in the size and colouring of the flowers, and are no
longer considered to be specifically distinet.

I am informed by Consul Lehmann that he has found this species near El Retiro,
and also in damp woods between Itagni and Eliconia, in Antioquia, at an elevation of
1,800 to 2,300 metres (5,850 to 7,475 feet). In a wild state it flowers twice in the year,
during April and May, and again in October and November. It grows among copse or
brush-wood, generally on the ground, but sometimes also on the mossy trunks of trees,
the long narrow leaves forming very dense masses, from among which the flowers appear
in great abundance, like a thick fringe upon the outer edge of the plants, a character-
istic retained in cultivation and well shown in the accompanying wood-cut.

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MASDEVALLIA NYCTERINA Rehb. f.

Masprvaniia xycrentna Rchb.f. Gard. Chron, 1873, p. 1238; 1874, pt. I., p. 639, fig. 134; pt. IL,
p. 715; 1875, pt. 1., pp. 40 and 106; 1881, pt. IL, pp. 336 and 537, fig. 64; Tllustr. Hort.
IS73, p. 25, t. 117-118 (as M. Chimera); Floral Mag. 1875, t. 150; De Puydt, Les Orch.
(1880), p. 285, pl. XXII. 0as WM. Chimera) ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 55.

Leaf 6 or 7 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate at the back, margins waved, apex acutely
tridenticulate, narrowing below in a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle 3 or + inches long, terete, slender, lateral or descending from the base of the petiole,
jointed, with a sheathing bract at each joint, dull reddish-green ; flowering bract nearly $ inch long,
apiculate, sheathing below, pale green, with one or two buds within at the base.

Ovary about $ inch long, with six crenate wings, crimson and green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly } inch, free portion triangular-ovate for
Id inch; Jateral sepals cohering for about 3 inch, triangular ovate, rounded beneath ; all pale yellow,
covered with crimson spots and short stiff hairs, the inner half of the lateral sepals nearly white, all with
numerous nerves, the principal nerves carinate upon the outer surface, tapering into slender terete crimson
tails about 2 inches long.

Petals about 4 inch Jong, oblong below, margins angled, apex bi-lobed, the outer lobe large and
rounded, with numerous small papille in the centre, pale yellow spotted with rust-red.

Lip searcely } inch long, fleshy and deeply grooved at the base, and united to the foot of the column
by a very flexible hinge, anterior portion shell-like, spreading, margins converging, pure white tinged
with pale vellow, with numerous radiating keels within.

Column shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, pale yellow tinged with red.

vie NYCTERINA was discovered in 1872, by Gustav Wallis, near

Frontino, in the Western Cordillera of Antioquia, at an elevation of 5-6,000 feet.
This region is also the habitat of JZ Chimera, M. Carderi, and A. bella, as well as of
many other species of Masderallia. ML. nycterina is closely allied to AL. bella, which it
especially resembles in the rayed, shell-like lip, but it was at first mistaken for JZ.
Chimara by Mons. Linden, who named and distributed Wallis’s specimens as that
species. The coloured) Plates published as JZ. ngcterina more nearly resemble
M. Vespertilio, showing in each case the unrayed lip peculiar to that plant.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

Za, petal, side ;—3, lip ;—4. colunin ;—da, apex of column ; all enlarged.

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MASDEVALLIA PUSILLA Rolfe.

Maspevariia pester. Rolfe in New Bulletin, 1895, p. 334,

Leaf nearly 4 inches Jong. linear-linceolate, recurved, carinate at the back. apex acutely tridenti-
enlate. narrowing below into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright creen.

Pedunele about 25 inches lone, terete, slender, descending or lateral trom the hase of the petiole,
jointed. with a small closely sheathing bract at cach joint, dull reddish-green ; flowering bract } inch
long. apiculate. sheathing below. membranous, pale green,

Ovary scarcely | inch long, with six rounded angles, dull crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4, inch, forming a narrow cup, free portions
ovate-triangular for about | ineh, d-nerved, the central nerve carinate ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly
) inch, reunded below, oblong-ovate ; all the sepals dull vellowish-white spotted with crimson,
especially upon the nerves. covered on the inner surface with minute elongated papilla, and terminating
in slender terete vellow tails, about $ inch long.

Petals very minute, oblong, with small angles upon the margins, apex )i-lobed and rounded, with
minute papilke between the lobes, pale yellow spotted with rust-red.

Lip about twice as long as the petals, basal portion large and fleshy, united to the foot of the column
by a flexible hinge, deeply hollowed in the centre. the anterior portion shell-like, with three central keels,

very minute, pale yellow, with pink spots.

Colunm a little longer than the petals. apex denticulate, with two points much prolonged, pale vellow.

HE habitat of Wasdeealia pusilla is unknown, and the only information to be
obtained about it is, that it first flowered in the collection of the Royal Botanic
Gardens at Dublin, in 1891, and was sent by Mr. F. W. Moore to Kew, where it was
named and described by Mr. R. A. Rolfe. It is chiefly interesting as the smallest known
species of the Saceolabiate, the tiny lip, petals, and other organs, showing in miniature
all the curious structural peculiarites of its larger allies.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant in the Royal Botanie Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin :

Fie. 1. petal. lip. and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
Za. petal, side :—3. lip :—4. column ;—da, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leat,

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MASDEVALLIA RADIOSA Rechb. f.

Masprvaniia kapIOsA Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1877, pt. L. p. 684; 1881, pt. IL, p.336 ; Veitch Manual
Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 59.

Leaf 5 or 6 inches Jong and about 3 inch broad, oblong-lanceolate, margins waved, apex acutely
tridenticulate, narrowing helow into a slender petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

Peduncle about 4 inches long, terete, lateral or descending from the base of the petiole, with
numerous sheathing bracts, dull purplish-green, 2 or 3-flowered, the flowers expanding in succession ;
flowering bract 4 inch long, ovate-oblong. apiculate, sheathing below, dull green.

Ovary | inch long, with six rounded angles, pale green.

Sepals all cohering for about $ inch, forming a wide shallow cup, gibbous below, free portions
broadly oval, concave, with numerous nerves, the central nerves carinate at the back, inner surface ochre-
vellow, dotted and streaked with dark purple and covered with small purple papill, outer surface smooth,
tawny or apricot vellow, all terminating in slender tapering dark purple tails two inches long.

Petals about 4; inch long, oblong, angled at the margin, apex cleft into two wings, with numerous
dark purple papilla within the cleft, ochre-vellow, with one or two dark purple spots.

Lip grooved and fleshy at the base and united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, dilated
into a broad shell-like lobe, white tinged with pale pink, with numerous radiating keels within the shell.

Column short and stout, very narrowly winged, pale pink below, green or pale yellow above, with a
broad band of purple, apex denticulate.

HE only known habitat of JZ. radiosa is near Frontino, in Antioquia, where it was

discovered by Gustav Wallis in 1873, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. Living plants

were sent by him to Messrs. Veitch, in whose collection Professor Reichenbach first
saw the flowers in 1876.

A small and Jess attractive variety, apparently commoner in cultivation, is repre-
sented at Fig. 6 of the accompanying Plate. Jf, radiosa is closely allied to A. bella,
M. Chestertonii and M. nycterina, which it resembles in the wide and shell-like, rather
than saceate, lip.

Consul Lehmann adds the following information :

M. radiosa is one of the rarest species known to me. In fact. 1 have only found it in one locality,
viz.. in the neighbourhood of Frontino, in Antioquia. It grows on trees, always on the trunks, not far
from the ground. in very damp dense woods, at an elevation of 1,600 to 2,100 métres (5,200 to’6,835 feet).
The annual mean temperature of this region ranges from 16° to 18°.5 Centigrade (about 60° to 70°
Fahrenheit), and there is a heavy and constant rainfall throughout almost the whole year. Only in
March. and Aucust there is a short interval of finer weather, but even during these months

February,
In a wild state IM. radiosa flowers in October and

there are but few days entirely without rain.

November.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

Fig. 1, petal. lip. :
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MASDEVALLIA TRINEMA Rchb. f.

Maspevatiia rrixema Rehb. £. Flora (Singer) 18&6, p. 538.

M. Loris, Rolie in Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. L, p. 416 : pt. IL, p. 269, fig. 44,

Leaf 6 or 7 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate, acutely tridentic : -
eaf 6 or 7 inches long, 0 jong-lanceolute, carinate, acutely tridenticulate, margins waved, narrowing
below ina slender petiole, sheathed at the base, bluish-green.
Pedunele 5 or 6 inches lone. terete, slender, Jateral or descending from the base of the petiole
(rarely erect). 2 or 3-flowered, the flowers expanding in succession. with numerous sheathing bracts, pale

xreen ; Howering bracts about § inch long, oblong-ovate. apiculate, sheathing below, pale green.

4

Ovary | inch long, with six rounded angles. purplish-green.

Sepals cohering for scarcely 3 inch, elongated triangular, with numerous nerves, cream-white tinged
with vellow, and covered with mauve-purple spots and minute papille, each sepal tapering into a slender
Hattened tail about 14 inch long, cream-white.

Petals about } inch long, oblong, the apex cleft into two lobes, with numerous minute dark purple
papille between the lobes, pale vellow, with a central streak and bloteh of dark purple.

Lip longer than the petals, grooved at the base and united to the foot of the column by a flexible
hinge. fleshy. with prominent central keels and minute radiating lateral ones, flattened, scarcely hollow,

manuve-purple, with darker rays and a few spots.

Column « little longer than the petals, terete, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, pale yellow.

ig is on the authority of Consul Lehmann—who has had the advantage of examining

Professor Reichenbach’s dried specimens—that I identify Mf. trinema Rebb. f. with
VW. Lowii of Rolfe. The name of the original discoverer of this species is unknown,
and no indication of its habitat, beyond the words “ Nov. Gran.,” is given in
Reichenbach’s description, written in 1886.

The plant is still very rare, the three or four specimens in cultivation having all
been divided from one small piece imported from Cauca among a number of Orchids,
by Messrs. Hugh Low & Co., in 1889. Mr. Sidney Courtauld was the purchaser of the
hew plant, and it first flowered in his collection in 1890. In a wild state the slender
flower-stalks are sometimes upright, but more usually they are lateral, or descending in
graceful curves through the moss which covers the roots of the plant.

Consul Lehmann has found this species in the following locality :

Masderallia trinema oceupies a very small range of the western mountains in the north of the
Cauca and of Western Antioquia, in Columbia. I first found it in 1883 on the Cordillera de Belalcazar,
between the towns of Cartago and Supia in the Cauca, and afterwards at Frontino and E] Yarumal in the
It grows on trees in thick damp woods at an elevation of 1,500 to
1.900 metres (4.875 to 6,175 feet). It is rare in all these localities, and as a rule, it selects only those
trees which border the banks of mountain streams and rivulets. At Frontino it always grows mixed with
plants of W. Peristeria, M. nidifica, and M. Carderi. The climate of its habitat is similar to that in
which JW. Chimera thrives, the temperature being about 1° Centigrade higher.

There is a marked variation in the colour of the flowers. At Frontino and El Yarumal the sepals are
dull vellowish-white. densely cross-blotched with an opaque brown, In the plants found on the mountains
of Belaleazar the tlowers are larger, and the sepals are creamy-white, marked with lilac-brown to only

west snd north-west of Antioquia.

two-thirds of their length, the points remaining pure white.

Masderallia Lorii Rolfe is identical with M4. frinema Rehb. f.

Explanation of Plate : "
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Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;

2a. petal, side -—3. lip ;—3a, side of lip ;—4, column :—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged. ;
(N.B.—The larger leaves in this Plate are drawn from Consul Lehmann’s dried specimens, no

cultivated plant having as vet attained to such dimensions.)

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Isvevatiaa Trocropyars Morr, Belg. Hort, XXVIL. (1877). p. 97. t. Vu Rehb. t.

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feat Tor S mehes Jong. Hnear-lanceolate, carinate, margins waved, apex tridenticulate, narrowing
] ij M4 ~ . ! ez
ow uted slender penole, sheathed at the base. bright green. (In wild plants the leaves are 16 inches
Hioot long
Podunele about S inches long. terete, slender, lateral or descending trom the base of the petiole, with
mys bracts. dall purple: flawering braet 3 inch long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below. pale green
eed with purple
Orycry )) ineh dong. with six rounded angles. dull purple.
Sopats cohering for about } inch. forming a wide campanulate tube, tree portions roundly triangular,
Hiserous nerves, the central ones carinate on the outer surface. reddish-brown within, covered with
temapilie. with a white space and a few crimson spots in the centre beneath the lip. outer surface
reotmeed with green, nerved with dark red. all the sepals terminating in slender tails 1 or 14 inch
ae iankered
Vorals Loch Jone. tinear at the base, marcins slightly angled. clett at the apex into two lobes,
wetyern wldel is a mass of minute blackish-purple papille, dull) vellow, with a blackish-purple
teoovidiar spot
Lop Joneer than the petals. erooved apd tleshy at the base. and united to the toot of the column by #
lonee. nuterior portion sliatlow. shell-like, with one fleshy central keel and a lateral bi-lobed keel
wh side. pale pink
Colin shorter than the lip. stont. narrowly winged, apes denticulate, vellow.

pea habitat of Masdecallia Troglodytes is EL Roblareito. wear Sonson, in Antioquia,

where Consul belanani las found it at an elevation of 2400 metres (7,800 feet),
flowering iy December Pia wild state it is not a common species. frequenting only a
still area. and growing sparingdy in thick woods, close to the ground upon the trunks

Of trees

The fist caltivated plants were sent to Belgium by M. Lalinde, a resident at
Medellin. Antioquia. and these flowered in TS76 in the collection of Mons. Oscar-
Lamarehesat Liewe. [tis now to be seen in every collection of Masdevallias, flourishing
in deroe qnasses of slender leaves, and producing its dull red-brown flowers in great

proluston ,
Phe uame Troglodytes, or “eave-dweller” chosen for it by Mons. Edouard Morren,

is as fanciful as any mame civen by Professor Reichenbach to other species of the
Chimara section.
Jn General characteristics 1/ Trogladytes Is closely allied to JW. /Zoutteana, and
tay perhaps ultimately be ineluded amon the varieties of that) species. The chief
differences are in the colouring and in the rays within the lip. but the latter feature

does notappear to be uniform in either plant.

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MASDEVALLIA VESPERTILIO Rcehb. f.

MaspevaLiia Vesrertinie Rehb. t Bot. Zeit. IS73. p. $905 Gard. Chron, 1877, pt. L, p. 272; 1880
pt Laps al2 Uses pt. TL., p. 409: Veiteh Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p.t4; :

Leaf 6 or 7 inches Jong, obloug-lanceolate, carinate at the hack, Apex acutely tridenticulate barrow~
ing below ito a groaved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green.

» ‘les } . . ate | *) 9 j
I vidune Ie about 4 inches long, terete, slender, attenuate below, lateral or descending from the base of
the petiole, jointed, with a closely sheathing bract at cach joint, bearing two or three flowers in succession
succession,
dull purplish-s

rp flowering bract J inch long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, with one or two
buds within, bright green.

Ovary | inch Jong, with six crenate Wings, green and crimson.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about + inch, forming an open cup, free portion
1. ngular-ovate for nearly 3 inch ; Interal sepals cohering for nearly J inch, very broad, triangular-ovate,
ro, nded below: all the sepals pale sulphur-vellow spotted with erimson, the inner surface covered with
clougated papille, with numerous nerves, the principal ones prominent on the outer surface, terminating
in slender terete tails about 1} inch long, yellow, with minute crimson spots. :

Petals scarcely | inch long, oblong, apex bilobed, with a mass of minute reddish papilla between the
lubes. pale vellow spotted with red-brown,

Lip about | inch long, Heshy and deeply grooved at the base and united to the foot of the column
by a very flexible hinge, anterior portion shell-like, the margins converging inwards, the inner surface
qtute smooth, without rays, pure white.

Coluun a Little longer than the petals, narrowly winged, apex acutely denticulate, pale yellow, banded

with red.

M ANY dried specimens of Masdevallia vespertilio were sent to Professor Reichenbach
= by the collectors Roezl. Wallis, Chesterton and Patin, from the Valley of the
Cauca. in Colombia, but until i877 no living plants had been imported. The first to
r Trevor Lawrenee.

flower were in the collection of $

The general characteristics of the flower are constant and distinet, and the structure
of the Hip alone would suffice to identify the species. This organ is remarkable for the
entire absenee of keels or rays, a peculiarity which will be easily seen by comparing the
uccompanving Plate with those preecding it in the same section.

Consul Lelimann sends the following information :

Musderallia vespertilia lis almost asx’ wide a geographical distribution as the allied species, J.
Choncea, and is found upon the upper slopes of the valleys between the Central and Western Cordilleras
of Cohambiacand also on the western declivities of the Western Cordillera at both its northern and
southern extrenities, It grows in dense masses upon trees in thick woods, atau elevation of 1,200 to
L700 inetres (5.900 to 0.925 feet). and the temperature ranges between 19° and 21°5° Centigrade (about 667
to 70) Fahrenheit). “The clinate is uniformly damp and the atiosphere is nearly always saturated with
Tersture,

Asa species Mo respertilio is wsost distinct and shows very little variation, the size and sumber of
Howers upon a plant being perhaps the ouly pereeptible ditferenee. Throughout its entire range, from
the north of Nutioquia to the southern boundary of the Department of Cauca, the bright yellow of the
fiawers. with thei rich erimsen spots, is exactly similar, and several flowers are produced in’ succession
upon the same stem. “The largest-flowered plants are found at Frontino, its northern limit, and also on
the Iighlands of Los Anaves. and on the castern slopes of the Cerro Munehique, near Popayin. On the
Cordillera of BDehideazar. a lateral range of Mountains branching off from the Cerro de Caramanta in the
Western Cordillera. and running tirst exstwards and then southwards, aud ending a little below Cartago,
in Canea. J respertilie grows in erent abundance. The flowers in this region are small, but very
nimerous and finely esloured. as are also these found at its southern tinit, near Pasasquer and San
Pablo on the road from ‘Puquerres to: Barbaceas. From this locality T introduced a large number of

plants in PSSQland they still toma the matin steck of this species in Europe.

) Xphanation of Pate

Fig. 1. petal, lip. and column. in natural position ;—La, seetion of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

Ya. petal, sides—3. lip :-4, columm ;-da. apex of colupm 3 afl enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf;

U. seed-eapside tromea wild plant: wadaral size.

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SECTION -XIL

SALTATRICES Rechh.

PPYEEPSE small plants are unlike most species of Masderallia, and will perhaps ulti-

mately be excluded from the Genus. For the present, however, in the nnecertaints
arising from the scanty number of species known, T ean only follow Reichenbaeh's
classification,

2 species figured :

Masdevalla O'Brieniana Rolfe.

shnula Rehb.

Not in cultivation ¢

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MASDEVALLIA O’BRIENIANA Rolfe.

Masprvatita OBiaestaxa Rolfe. Gard. Chron, S90, pt. IL. p. 524.

leat about 2 inches tong aud | inch broad. Tinear-lanceolate, very thick and stiff, apex acutely
rridenticnlate. dark creen, often tnged with purple. narrowing below in a slender grooved petiole sheathed
at the hase.

Pedunele about !

ine lous. terete. slender, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole,
with two or three tlowers expanding in snecession. pale green ; flowering bract $ inch Jong, membranous,

apieniate. dall brown,
Ovary Linch long, tuianeular, with three rounded lobes and three crenate wings, bright green.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals at the base only, about 2 inch Jong, oblong-ovate.
enerved, dull yellowish. semi-transparent. with transverse crimson bars and spots, terminatiug in a
slender pointed tail { imch long, orange-vellow, with minute crimson spots ; lateral sepals cohering for
about 2 inch, forming a shallow cup with a keel-like exerescence round the front, free portion 4 inch
long. ovate. S-nerved, terminating in slender flattened tails 4 inch Jong, yellow, with minute crimson

spots: the central nerves of all the sepals are carinate at the back.

Petals 2

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inch long and nearly as broad, angled on one side. lobed on the other, apex rounded, bright

yellow. blotched and spotted with crimson.

Lip rather longer than the petals, Hvear at the base and united to the foot of the column by a flexible
hinge. anterior portion very broad, with two horn-like projections and two prominent angular lobes, apex
reflexed. bright yellow. with numerous crimson spots.

Column a little longer than the petals, broadly winged, apex recurved, denticulate, greenish-yellow
spotted with crimson, the foot rich crimson, with two eurved longitudinal bright vellow keels.

MPYWIS species was named and described by Mr. Rolfe in 1890, from plants which
flowered in the collection of Mr. R. J. Measures. It is closely allied to J/. simala
Rehb. fo and Pam unable to obtain any information whatever as to its habitat.

Explanation of Plate :
Pie. 1. petals, lip. and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
S. lip —Sacapex of lip :—4. column ;—da. apex of column ;—4b, part of foot of column ;—5, apex and

section of feat: all enlarwed,

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MASDEVALLIA SIMULA Rchb. f.

MASpPEVALLIA stuuta Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. I, p. 8; 1881, pt. IL, p- 409.
Leaf 1 to 2) inches long, and 4 inch broad, linear, fleshy, curved, tridenticulate, dull green tinged

with purple and covered with minute excrescences, narrowing below into a slender petiole, dark green,
sheathed at the base.

Peduncle about 2 inch long, terete, 2 or 3-flowered, each flower fading before the expansion of the
next, ascending from near the base of the petiole, with minute apiculate bracts.

Ovary 1; inch long, triangular, with six grooves.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals very little beyond the base, about } inch long,
stronely keeled without, 3-nerved, cucullate, ovate-lanceolate, terminating ina blunt point, semi-transparent,
greenish, barred with small transverse crimson spots ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly } inch, gibbous
below, with a dark crimson exerescence within beneath the lip, 3-nerved, ovate-lanceolate, terminating in
narrow points, yellowish green, with small transverse crimson spots,

Petals scarcely 4 inch Jong, and about half as broad, triangular at the apex, strongly angled on the
anterior margin, green and crimson.

Lip rather more than inch long, linear at the base, then with two prominent angular lobes, anterior
portion cordate, with two horn-like projections, margin minutely crenate, apex much reflexed, dark
crimson-purple.

Column } inch long, with triangular wings, apex minutely denticulate, green edged and spotted with
crimson.

A

SDEVALLIA SIMULA was discovered in 1874, by Chesterton, while collecting
in Colombia for Messrs. Veitch. Its small size and the inconspicuous colour of
its flowers, growing half hidden in moss at the base of the leaves, make it of little interest
except to botanists, but the curious and unusual structure of the petals and lip will be
found to repay careful examination. In cultivation the time of flowering is from April
to July, during which time several flowers appear in succession from the same stem.
The exact localities in which this little plant is to be found have not hitherto been made
generally known, and are given as follows by Consul Lehmann :

This peculiar and very variable species, in my opinion more a Be poe
Vasdevallia, as an extensive distribution over the Andes of Colombia an ‘ Seen
= . . . o
In the north it extends as far as the northern parts of Antioquia, oie mclaren
on the highlands of Santa Rosa and Carolina, at an elevation of ee , ipa
(6,500—8,450 feet). In the south it has been met with as far as the Rages oa i

Ge if ‘ovince of ay or onca, at the same elevation as in ioq
districts of the province of Azuay or Cuenca, a ; eR

‘icinity of ‘an it grows abundantly at an elevation of 1,800 métres (0,5¢ -
the vicinity of Popayan it grows a \ one ae eaten
while on the Alto del Mojanda, between Otabalo and ernaes it ii es se

‘ ; 5 : ‘curs on the western declivities 0 e€ cel
at 3,000 metres (9,750 feet). It occurs o alee ie eI
i ;, especially se of the Andes of Quito, and extends
Western Andes, especially on those 0 ; an oe ee
3° S. lat. The temperature in which this plant thrives varies esp hesiaieng ye -
elevation of the locality, the lowest being 9° and the highest 17°°5 Centig

63° Fahrenheit).

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There appears to be some doubt as to whether all the different varieties belong to
the same species. Up to this moment I have not been able to detect any structural
difference,—merely a larger or smaller development in any plant from the different
localities. The form represented in the accompanying plate is a good medium develop-
ment of the species, as it is found in the vicinity of Aguadas and Sonson, and other
parts of Antioquia. The smallest form is met with near Popavan and on the Alto del
Mojanda, near Quito, the leaves seldom exceeding 3 centimétres (about 14 inch) in
length. The largest form, the leaves of which attain a length of 16 or 18 centimétres
(63 or 7 inches), grows on rocks and trees in the damp and shady woods on the western
slopes of the Corazén mountains, near Quito, at an elevation of 2,000 to 2,400 métres
(6,500 to 7,800 feet).

; F. C. LEHMANN.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, apex of column ;—5, apex and section of leaf; a// much enlarged.

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SECTION XIIi.

TRIANGULARES Rchb. f.

(ALSO CALLED CAUDAT.E.)

puts Section includes numerous species allied to M. triangularis. Their chief
characteristics are, slender growth, the delicate membranous texture of the
flowers, and in most cases, the shallowness of the tube and the great length of the tails.

10 species figured :

Masdevallia Arminii Rehb. f.
caudata Lindl. (=A. Shuttleworthii Rchb.f.)
Estradie Rehb. f.
floribunda Lindl. (=JZ. Galeottiana Rich. et Gal., M. myrio-

stigma Morren., et M. Lindeniana Rich. et Gal.

hieroglyphica Rehb. f.
ionocharis Rehb. f.
triangularis Lindl.
uniflora Ruiz et Pav. (not in cultivation.)
Wagneriana Rehb. f.
xanthina Rehb. f.

Not in cultivation :

M. erpansa Rchb.f: Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878 ), p. 16.
hymenautha Rehb. f. Bonplandia LL, (1855), p. 225,
inaequalis Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1574, pt. L., p. 372.
tricolor Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. I., p. 102.
uniflora, (see Plate. )
celutina Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1876, pt. I1., p. 420.

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MASDEVALLIA ARMINII Rehb. f.

Moasprvaruia Amwixi Rehb. f Bonplandia II (1854), p. 288; TT. (1855), p. 69: Walp. Ann. Mie
(ISG1). po IS9; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 3545 Orchidophile (Godetroy) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 368; Gard.
Chron, ISS], pt. IL, p. 236: 1882, pt. IL, p. 102: Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 24:

Leaf 2 or 3 inches Jong and about 2 inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, bright green,
narrowing below inte a slender petiole, sheathed at the hase, pale green, with minute blackish spots.

Pedunele. including pedicel, about 25 inches long, slender, terete, attenuate towards the base.
gscending from a joint at the base of the petiole, vers pale green: bract about 3 inch long, membranous,
apiculate, oblong-ovate, sheathing below, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base, dull pale
ereen. with very minute black dots,

Oyary | inch long, round|y trianeular, with six wrooves, whitish green, with a few very minute black
dots.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a shallow, open tube, free

portion 2 inch long and nearly the same in width, ovate, cneullate, 3-nerved, rose-purple, terminating In 2

slender orange-yellow tail, about 2 inches long; lateral sepals cohering for nearly 4 inch, free portion
Vineh long and the same in width, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, rose-lilac, with a small dark purple spot at
the base of each, and terminating in very slender orange-yvellow tails 14 inch long; all sepals pale and
semi-transparent at the base, the inner surfice covered with very minute semi-translucent asperities, and
the central nerve outwardly carinate,

Petals nearly | inch long, oblong, narrowing towards the apex, with a broad keel and angle on the
anterior margin, very pale yellow, shining and fleshy, apex tridentate.

Lip a little shorter than the petals, oblong, fleshy at the base and along the centre, united to the
curved foot of the column by a very clastic hinge, vellowish tinged with pink, semi-transparent, apex
slightly recurved. covered with small dark purple spots, and having a dark purple velvety boss in the
contre

Columm equalling the lip in length, slightly winged, with a triangular projection on each side near
the toot. pale vellow, blackish-crimson at the apex and base, apex dentate.

\ ASDEVALLIA ARMINIL was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1854,

from dried specimens collected by Louis Schlim in the mountains around Ocanha
and Pamplona, in the Province of Santander, Colombia. No date is assigned to his
discovery, but it appears to have been prior to the year 1849, when the plant was found
by Hermann Wagener at La Baja, flowering in January at an elevation of 9,000 feet.

The internal structure of JW. Arminii differs from that of other species in the
remarkable projection upou cach side of the base of the column, shown at fig. 4 of the
accompanying Plate. In the living flower this projection is closely surrounded, or
embraced, by the curved angle of the petal, and must be designed to serve some pur-
pose. at present unknown, in the fertilisation of the flowers by insects.

Tam informed by Mr. PL Sander, who first imported living

plants of IL. Arminii,
that his collector found it growing smothered im mosses in the

forks and branches of
trees, on the western slopes of the Andes of Ecuador, the habitat of AL. rosea.

Explanation of Plate. drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey ;

. Fiz. 1. petal lip. and column. in natural position ;—la, seetion of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lips. column :— ba. apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5., apex and section of leat, natural size.

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Lindl. Gen. et spec. Orch. (1853). p. 198 5 Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Rehb. i
: Karsten Flor. Colomb. (1862-1869),
Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. 1, p. 170:

VIASDEVALLIA CAUDATA

Bonplandia TP. (1854), p. 28 5 Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 289
vol TL. p. 103. t. CLUDE: Morren Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 395 ;
ISSisipt. UL. p. 230e:) Meiteh Manual Orch, pt. V. (1889). p. 28.

VM. Shutteworthii Rel. tf. Gard. Chron, 1874, pt. Te p. 170: TSS], pt. i tes p. £09 ; 1884, pt. I p- 741,
in eroup tig. 141; Bot. May. t. 6372 (1878); Gartentlora (Regel) XXVII. (1878), p. 26; XXXIX.
(IS90), p. 457. pl. 1329; Hlustr. Hort. S81, p. 171, t. 435; Orch. Album (Warn. et Will.) vol. I.
(ISS2).t. 3: Reichenbachia vol. 1. (1887), p. 29. pl. 18: Lindenia vol. IV. (1888), p. 80, pl.
CLNXNIIL.: Veiteh Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889). p. 28.

Tur. vanthocorys Reb. tf. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. I. p. 866; Orchidophile (Godefroy ) vol. I. (1881-3),
p. 2892 Reiehenbachia vol. 1. (i887). p. 29, ph 15; Veitch Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889), p. 29.

Leat door 5 inches long and about 1 inch wide, oblanceolate, tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing
helow into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, pale ereen, with black spots.

Pedunele. including pedicel. about 4 inches long, with two bracts, terete. slender, ascending from the
base of the petiole, pale greens flowering bract 4 inch long, ovate. apiculate. sheathing, with a small
rudimentary bud within at the base. pale dull green.

Ovary about 2 inch Jone. with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, dull white.

Sepals cohering for about } inch, dorsal sepal ovate, cucullate, clear golden vellow, with numerous
minute crimson spots. and five deep crimson nerves, the lateral nerves sometimes bifurcating ; lateral
sepals cibbous below. ovate-triangular for nearly 1 inch, 5-nerved, rose-coloured, closely covered with
sinall transverse crimson spots: all the sepals terminating in slender tails 2 or 3 inches long, orange-
\ ellow. greenish at the back.

Petds about {inch Jong. linear-oblong, curved, anterior margin bicarinate, terminating in a curved
auricle. apex tridentate, white.

Lip jy oinch long, oblonz-pandarate. with two obscure longitudinal keels, base fleshy, grooved. with
two rounded lobes beneath, whitish, with numerous rose-eoloured spots, apex much reflexed, rose-pink,

with darker spots.

Column a tittle longer than the petals, broadly winged. white, with deep crimson apex, sometimes

wholly crimson. wings edeed and spotted with crimson, apex dentate.

ISCOVERED by Mons. Justin Goudot, a French botanist employed by the Goyern-
ment of Colombia to found various scientific establishments at Bogota. His
explorations, between the years 1823 and 1842. extended from Venezuela to Bogota,
amon the Cordilleras in all directions, and across the fertile valleys of the Magdalena
and the Cauca. Specimens of Wo candata collected by him near San Fortunato, were
named and described in 1833 by Dr. Lindley, who also, in 1846, described specimens
found by Linden, growing upon trees on Mount Quindiu, at. the height of 10,000 feet,
between Los Voleancitos and Paramillo. The first drawing of this species is an excellent
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one by Dr. H. Karsten, of Berlin, drawn, he informs me, in its native habitat—the
mountains of Bogota—trom freshly gathered flowers, and published in his splendid work
* Flora Colombize ” (1862-9), vol. IL, plate CLITL. This specimen is exactly identical
with the plant now generally known as Masderallia Shuttleworthii, a name conferred
upon it in 1875 by Professor Reichenbach, who was perhaps—judging from a description
of MW. caudata published by him in Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 833—under the impression
that the two were distinet species. Tle here describes the colour of the sepals as green
and that of the tails violet, stating the habitat to be Caracas, a locality in which the true
M. caudata is hardly likely to occur. Some years later, however, he appears to have
decided that J. caudate Lindl. was identical with his WW. Shattleworthii, and, apparently
reluctant to abandon the latter mame, he called the plant in IS8s J/. eandata
Shuttleworthii.

Wild plants frequently attain a greater size than those flowering in cultivation,
specimens larger than that here represented having been found by Consul Lehmann on
the Savana de Bogota, where the plant forms large thick tufts upon the trees of the
western slopes.

A variation occurs in individual plants in the number of the crimson stripes of the
dorsal sepal, some flowers having five. some seven, and some nine stripes. This difference
is not due to any variation in the number of the nerves, but to the bifurcation or non-
bifurcation, generally near the base, of one or both of the two lateral nerves.

Fig. 6 of the accompanying Plate represents the varicty named by Reichenbach
ranthocorys—VycNow-helmet—which appeared in 1882 in the collection of Sir Trevor
Lawrence.

Several hybrids have been raised between JZ. caudata and other species, of which
one of the prettiest is WU. Geleniana Rehb. f. (Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. LL. p. 586), raised
by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans, between J/. caudata and WW. wanthing The dorsal
sepal is orange-yellow, with numerous small crimson spots, and the lateral sepals pale
pink tinged with vellow, and having some of the small transverse spots so remarkable in
M. caudata. The tails are slender, about 3 inches long, aud bright orange-yellow,

VM. caudata-Estrade Rolle (Gard. Chron, 1889, pt. L, p. 714) isa livbrid raised by
Mr. eden for Mr. Veiteh from JZ. candata and M. Estrada. The dorsal sepal is rose-
purple, yellowish at the base, the lateral sepals soft violet-purple, paler at the apes. The

tails are about 2 inches Jong, orange-yellow.

M. Courtanidiana Rebb. f. (Gard. Chron, 1889, pt. L, p. 200) was raised by Mr.
Norman Cookson, of Oakwood, Wylam-on-Tyne, from JZ. resca and WW. camdata, "The
dorsal sepal and tail are light brownish, and the Jateral sepals light rose-colour.

Consul Lehmann contributes the following information :

MV. caudata grows upon oaks and other trees and shrubs. always near the eround, in dense and vers

damp woods or forests on the northern, western, and southern slopes of the Savanna de Bowota 2 and alse

on the western declivities of the Paramo de Santi Rosa and Sumapaz, inthe Province of Cundinaieres, at

an elevation of 2.000 to 2,500 metres (6.500—8.125 feet). Plants with the Jargest and aost finely

coloured flowers are

found chictiv on the descent from tie Montana de Subaté to Fusngasues. and slone
Tequendama, the same locality visited by Goudot, and where he probably found: his

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The annual mean temperature of the habitat of . caudate is between 14> and 16> Centigrade Co
37° to G1° Fahrenheit), and it flowers from February to May. Shade and constant moistare are essential
to the development of this species.

The variety zanthocorys is wost abundant in the woods of Suprute, Pacho and Veragus Grande. op

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MASDEVALLIA ESTRADAS Rchb. f.

Masprvauiza Estrap-e Rebb. f& Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. I., p. 435; 1881, pt. IL, p. 236; Bot. Mag.
t. 6171 (1875); Gartenflora (Regel) 1874, p. 3743 Belg. Hort. 1875, pl. XXI.; Orchidophile
(Godefroy) vel. I. (1881), p. 845 with fig. ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 42.

Var. Indibunda=Masdevallia ludibunda Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. 1, p. 179; Orchidophile
(Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 270; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 50.

Leaf 2 or 3 inches long, obovate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a slender

crooved petiole. sheathed at the base.

Peduncle, including pedicel, 3 or 4 inches long, tercte, slender, with two brownish sheathing bracts,
ascending from a joint near the base of the petiole, sometimes two or three from the same petiole, pale
green; flowering bract nearly 4 inch long, oblong-ovate, acuminate, sheathing below, with a minute

rudimentary bud within at the hase, brownish-green.
Ovary about 2 inch long, with six rounded angles, whitish.

Sepals cohering for nearly } inch, forming an open shallow tube, dorsal sepal obovate, cucullate,
j-nerved. rich magenta-crimson, with yellow at the base and margins; lateral sepals oblong for about
2 inch. 3-nerved. whitish, with rich magenta-crimson at the base ; all terminating in slender orange-yellow

tails, 1), inch Jong.

Petals about } inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate, with a strong keel on the anterior margin, inner

surface viscid beneath the keel, which terminates in a curved auricle, whitish.

Lip nearly } inch long, oblong-ovate, fleshy and grooved at the base, united to the curved foot of the

column by a very flexible hinge. pale pink, with numerous small crimson spots, apex a velvety dark
crimson boss.

Column about } inch long, broadly winged, white, with magenta foot, apex dentate, dark crimson,
wings edged and spotted with crimson.

i piu first flowers of Masdecallia Estrade seen in England were from plants in the

possession of Mr. Williams, of Holloway, who obtained them in 1873 from Antio-
quia, through a Belgian collector named Patin. Dried specimens had been previously
sent to Professor Reichenbach by Gustav Wallis, from the garden of Sefiora Estrada, a
Spanish lady resident in New Granada. Wallis, however, supplied no information as to
the habitat of the plant.

In 1882 a very closely allied plant was imported by Messrs. Sander, of St. Albans,
and named VW. /udibunda by Professor Reichenbach as a distinct species. Careful com-
parison of both plants has, however, convinced me that AZ. Iudibunda can only be con-
sidered a variety of MW. Estrada. The flowers of the variety are rather larger and the
colours paler than in those of the type, the chief differences being that the dorsal sepal
of the variety is less ercet and more concave, and the wings of the column straighter and
harrower.

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Consul Lehmann agrees with me in considering Mf. dudibunda Rehb. f. to be only a
variety of M. Estrad@, and supplies, as follows, information concerning their habitat,
hitherto unknown :

Masdevallia Estrade grows on trees in thick damp woods in Antioquia and Cundinamarca, at an
elevation of 2,000 to 2,500 métres (6,500 to 8125 feet). It is abundant on the Alto de Alegrias and Cerro
Horqueta on the Western Andes of Antioquia ; about Carolina on the Highlands of Santa Rosa; near La
Palma and on the Alto de San Miguel near Medellin ; and about the Roblarcito and the Encimada near
Sonson and Aguadas. In Antioquia Mf. Estrad@ grows mixed with M. ranthina, but the two species are
easily to be distinguished even when out of flower. The climate of these localities is extremely damp, few
days in the year passing without rain, and the average temperature is between 14° and 18° Centigrade
(about 57° to 64° Fahrenheit).

The variety /udibunda (M. ludibunda Rehb. f.) grows in a similar climate in great abundance on the
western slopes of the Piramo de Guerrero, the Alto Chaquira and the Piiramo de Rabon in the vicinity of
Pacho, Cundinamarca, and also near Zipaquira.

MASDEVALLIA FLORIBUNDA Lindl.

MASpEVALLIA FLoRIBUNDA Lindl. Bot. Reg. (1843), p. 72, mise. 112; Rehb. f. Linnea XVIII. (1844),
p. 400; Morren Belg. Hort. vol. XXIII. (1873), pp. 353, 356, and 361 ; Flore des Serres t. XIX.
(1878), p. 182; Gard. Chron. 1877, pt. IL, p. 616; 1879, pt. L, p. 559; 1881, pt. IL, p. 305;
Godm. et Salv. Biologia Centr. Amer., Bot. Hemsley, vol. TIL. (1882-1886), p. 207; Veitch Manual
Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 43.

M. Galeottiana Rich. et Gal. Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, vol. IIT. (1845), p. 17 (tab. 3, fig. 1, ined.).

MU. nyriostigma (errore myriosigma) Morren, Belg. Jlort. vol. XXL. (1873), p. 361, pl. XXUL ; Flore
des Serres t, NUX. (1873), p. 182 ; Gard. Chron, 1877, pt. IL, p. 616; Orechidophile (Godefroy)
vol. I. (1881-3), p. G47 ; 1885, p. 123.

Leaf about 52 inches long, oblong-Janceolate, fleshy, apex tridenticulate, bright shining green, narrow-
ine below into a fleshy grooved petiole, sheathed at the base.

Pedunele about 4 inches long, very slender, terete, wiry, with two sheathing bracts, dull green streaked
with erinson, ascending from within a sheath at the hase of the petiole; flowering bract 2 inch long,
membranous, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary 4 inch Jong, hexagonal, curved, with six deep grooves, dull green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral scpals for 1 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous beneath,
free portion triangular, 3-nerved, vellow, with numerous minute crimson spots, tapering into a fleshy tail
inch Jong, brownish-orange ; lateral sepals cohering for } inch, ovate, 5-nerved, pale yellow, nearly white
towards the anterior margin, with very numerous minute crimson spots, tapering into terete fleshy tails

2 inch long, brownish-orange.

Petals | inch Jong, linear, apiculate, with a pointed keel on the anterior margin, posterior margin
thickened, white.

Lip 4 inch Jong, oblong, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, base fleshy,

cordate, white, with numerous minute crimson spots, apex reflexed, dull vellow, with a brown central mark.
Column), inch Jong, winged, green, apex and wings blackish-purple, base crimson, foot yellow, apex

entire.

HE date of the discovery of JZ. floribunda is apparently 1840, when it was found by
several botanists in nearly the same locality in the Cordillera of Vera Cruz, South
Mexico. Henri Galeotti, a French botanist, who explored and collected in Mexico from
1835 to 1840, found it growing on oak trees near Vera Cruz, and flowering in profusion
during the greater part of the year. His plants, sent alive to Europe, were probably

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those deseribed as JZ. floribunda by Dr. Lindley, who received living flowers trom the
garden of Mr. J. Rogers, of Sevenoaks. Leibold and Harris also found the plant in
1840, near Jalapa, at an elevation of 3,000 to 4,000 feet, and from Leibold’s specimens
Professor Reichenbach wrote his description in “Linnea,” Is44. Specimens were
described in 1845 under the name of JZ. Galeottiana by Achille Richard and Galeotti,
and a drawing of the plant was made by the latter, but was, unfortunately, uever pub-
lished. The second synonym, myriostigma, was given to the plant in 1878 by Mons.
Morren, editor of the Belgique Horticole, under the impression that it was specifically
distinet from JM. floribunda. The plants thus named were brought by Mons. Omer de
Malzaine from Cordova, about fifty miles w.s.w. of Vera Cruz, and were cultivated in the
gardens of Messrs. Jacob and Makoy, at Liege.

At the present time the name JZ. myriostigiua is applied by foreign horticulturists
to varieties of AZ, floribunda wore or less differing from the type. The unspotted yellow
variety represented at fig. 6 of the accompanying Plate was sent to me by Messrs. Seeger
and Tropp, of Dulwich, who purchased it in Belgium as JZ. myriostigima. So faras Lam
aware, the closely spotted form most common in this country, and the pale vellovw,
almost spotless variety, represent the two extremes of variation, between which numerous
gradations are to be met with, the internal structure and colouring being in all cases
identical. Professor Reichenbach states that the little brown dots scattered over the
sepals vanish as the flower fades, when it appears simply yellowish. [I have never found
this to be the case. In spotted flowers the spots are visible, though perhaps not quite
so dark, after the flower has faded; and in freshly-gathered flowers of the vellow variety
the only spots present are few in number and very minute.

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MASDEVALLIA HIEROGLYPHICA Rehb. f.

MaAspEVALLIA WEROGLYVHICA Rehb. tf. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. IL, p. 230 ; 1885, pt. IL, p. 584; 1887,
pts DIE p. 3342 Orehidophile (Godefroy ) ISS], p. 400; 1886, p. 2; Veiteh Manual Orch. V.
(1889), p. 45.

Leaf about 4) inches long, oblong-oval, tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a slender
sroaved petiole, vellowish-green, with very minute black spots, sheathed at the base.

Peduncle 3 inches long. very slender, with two sheathing bracts, pale green, ascending from within a
sheath at the base of the petiole ; flowering bract 3 inch long, membranous, apiculate, pale green tinged

with brown.

Ovary | inch Jong, with six grooves, whitish, shining, with minute black spots.

Sepals: dorsal scpal united to the lateral sepals for § inch, forming a wide tube, gibbous below, free
portion triangular-ovate, encullate, 3-nerved, terminating ina very slender decurved tail about 2 inches
long, beneath the base of which is a fleshy oval papillus, crimson-purple ; lateral sepals cohering for 4
inch, triangular-ovate, the outer margin much rounded, 3-nerved, tapering into slender tails 24 inches
Jong ; colour, yellow at the base of the tube. then semi-transparent whitish, spotted and nerved with
purple-crimson, the lateral sepals paler, tails orange-vellow shaded with crimson.

Petals ,3, inch long, ovate-oblong, with a prominent hooked keel on the anterior margin, curving
forward in front of the column, pale vellow,

Lip about 3 inch long, oblong, nearly flat, apex slightly recurved, dull purple, with numerous minute
darker spots and three inconspicuous Jongitudinal lines.

Column 4 ineh Jong, with Jong triangular Wings, widest at the base, white, the wings spotted and
shaded with dark purple.

M AsPEVALLia HIEROGLYPHICA is nearly allied to J. Arminii, but differs
= remarkably in some respects from that and all other species. The wings of the
column are curiously developed and prolonged on each side, especially towards the base
(see figs. 4 and 4a), and still more characteristic is the dark purple excrescence under
the hase of the dorsal tail, shown, enlarged, at x fig. 1. No other known species has this
peculiarity, and it seems inexplicable that Professor Reichenbach should have over-
looked such a remarkable feature when he wrote, from fresh specimens, his minute and
accurate description of the colouring of the flower in Gard. Chron. 1885, pt. II., p. 584.
The use of this curious wart in the economy of the plant may possibly be to check
unsuitable insects in their attempts to enter further into the flower, presenting an
attraction beyond which they do not care to penetrate. This surmise is founded on the
fact that in almost all the numerous specimens which I have examined, this succulent
morsel has been gnawed by inseets, and in some eases entirely consumed.

The first plants of this species were imported from Ocafia by Messrs. Sander in
ISS2, no further information as to its habitat being available.

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Masprvatnia ioxocnars Rehb. f. Gaurd. Chron. 1875, pt. IL. p. 388 ; 1881, pt. IL, p. 305 ; Bot. Mag.
t. 6262 (1876) ; Garden 1876, pt. IL. p. 508 with fig.; Gartenflora (Regel) vol. XXVI. (1877),
p- Si: vol. NXVIT. (1878), p. 207, with fig. p. 208; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3),
p. 666, with fig. asin Gartenflora ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 48.

Var. approviata hort.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches long and about } inch wide. ovate-lanceolate, carinate, apex acutely tridenticulate,
bright green, narrowing helow into a slender grooved petiole. sheathed at the base.

Pedunele 3 or 4 inches long, with two sheathing bracts, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath
at the base of the petiole, pale green ; flowering bract } inch long, carinate, apiculate, 3-nerved, with a

rudimentary bud within at the base, brownish-green,

Ovary 2 inch long, with six grooves, pale green.

Sepals cohering for about 4 inch, forming a wide gibbous tube, greenish-white, spotted with rose-
purple : free portion triangular-ovate for about } inch, 5-nerved, the nerves strongly carinate on the outer
surface, white, covered on the inner surface with minute velvety hairs, and terminating in slender greenish-
vellow tails 3 inch long.

Petals about J inch Jong, oblong, apiculate, curved, broadly keeled and angled on the anterior margin.
the inner surface viscid beneath the angle of the keel. pale transparent ivory-yellow.

Lip about 2 inch Jong. fleshy and deeply grooved at the base, united to the curved foot of the column
by a very flexible hinge, pandurate, white, with rose-purple spots near the hase, and two longitudinal

purple keels. apex much reflexed, terminating in a point, bright orange.

Column about | inch long, broadly winged, whitish-green, spotted on the foot with rose-purple, apex

minutely denticulate.

N ASDEVALLIA IONOCHARIS was discovered in 1874 by Davis while collecting
in Peru for Mr. Veitch, who states the locality to be “the Andean valley of
Sandia, in the province of Caravaya,” at an elevation of 9,000 to 10,000 feet.

A variety of this species exists in more than one collection under the name of
Masdevallia approviata, the flowers of which are whiter, more slender, and less spotted ;
the column also is entirely white and the lip more brightly marked with rose-purple.
The leaf is darker green, and the denticulation of the apex is sharper than in the type.
I can obtain no information as to the history of this variety, except that it was sold at
Stevens’ Rooms by Messrs. Protheroe and Morris in February 1887 under the above
name, Which does not appear to have ever been published or attached to any distinet
species. The plant is probably merely a local variety of JZ. ionocharis.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovar
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of lip.

, ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

natural size.

MASDEVALLIA TRIANGULARIS Lindl.

Maspevatiia trraxouLanris Lind], Oreh. Lind. (IS16) p. 4; Rehb. f. Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 23
(nomen tantim); Walp. Ann. VIL CIS61). p. ISS; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 360; Gard. Chron. 1881,
pt. ID. p. 409: 1882, pt. LL. p. 44: Orchidophile (Godetroy) vol. 1. (1881-3), p. 193; Veiteh
Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889), p. 65.

Leaf 4 or 6 inches Jong, and about 1 inch broad. oblanceolate. carinate,. sharply tridenticulate, bright
ereen, narrowing below into a slender, grooved, blackish petiole with blackish membranous sheaths at the
hase.

Peduncle 4 or 5 inches long, terete, slender, ascending fronia joint near the base of the petiole, bright
creen, with a few minute black dots and one or two blackish bracts ; flowering bract 2 inch long, oblong-

ovate, carinate, apiculate, sheathing below, dull green or blackish.

2 inch Jong, slender, with six rounded angles. very pale green dotted with black.

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Sepals all cohering for about 2 inch: dorsal sepal triangular-ovate for about 2

2 inch, slightly cucullate,

3-nerved. carinate at the back : lateral sepals triangular-ovate for about 3 inch, 3-nerved ; all ochre-vellow,
with numerous small transverse purple spots. and terminating in slender dark purple tails, about 2 inches
long.

Petals scarcely J inch Jong. oblong. curved, tridenticulate, anterior margin strongly keeled, and termi-
nating in a Jone curving angle, white.

Lip nearly 4 inch long. oblong-pandurate or oblong-triangular, with two obscure longitudinal keels,
grooved and fleshy at the base and united to the curved foot of the colunim by a flexible hinge, whitish,

with small pink and crimson spots. apex narrow, much reflexed, erimson-purple, covered with stiff hairs.

Column } inch Jong. white or very pale vellow, narrowly winged with crimson, apex slightly dentate.

2.9
ing upon trees on the Quebrada of Murmuquena, near Bailadores in the Province

of Merida, Venezuela, at an altitude of 4.800 feet in a temperature of 68° Fahrenheit.
It was also found near Caracas by Wagener and in Tovar by Moritz. The first living
plants were imported in ISsl by Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, and the richly-coloured
form represented in the accompanying Plate is probably a plant from his original
importation, my first drawing of the species having been made in 1883, at Newhbattle
Abbey. This variety appears to be rare, for the flowers of most plants now in cultivation
are more green than yellow, only slightly spotted, and with greenish-purple tails.

jh [eee Sales TREANGULARIS was discovered by Linden in June, 1842, crow-
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Consul Lelunann sends the following note:
The habitat of WW. ¢rrangularis is in the central mountains of Venezuela, from the Department of
Carabobo to Merida, at an elevation of 1.800 to 2,300 métres (5,850 to 7,475 feet). It grows on the trunks

of trees in damp shady woods, ina mean temperature of 14° to 18° Centigrade (about 59° to 65° Fahrenheit).

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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Masprvaniia cxtprona Ruiz et Pay. Flor. Peruy. et Chil. Prodromus (1794), p. 122.4. XXVH

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Spec. Plant. vol. [. (1815), Pp. 861. t. 89 (non Ruiz et Pav.) : Vindl: Gen: et Spec. Orch. (1833),
p. 195: Relib. f Bonplandia IV. (1856), p. 216: Bele. Hort. 1873, p. 360.

Leaf 4 or 5 inches Jone and J) inch wide, oblong-lanceolate, narrowing below into a long slender

grooved petiole, sheathed at the hase. apparently bright ereen, apex tridenticulate.

Pedunele 5 or 6 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole,

with two sheathing bracts, ercen : pedicel from 3 to # inch in leneth ; flowering bract about 4 inch long,

apiewlate, sheathing below.

Ovary nearly 3 inch lone. curved. with six grooves, green or purplish,

Sepals cohering for about } inch, forming a rounded tube. all ovate-triangular, 3-nerved, white, vellow
at the base. terminating in slender purplish tails about 4 inch long,

Pers | inch lone, oblong, with a eurved angle on the anterior margin, apex dentate, probably white
With one purple streak,

Lip {inch long, oblanceolate, thickened at the hase. margins very slightly waved, probably pale
purple. with three central lines and purple apex,

Colunin not available for description.

4QVSPECTAL interest attaches to Masderallia wuiflora as the first Masderallia made
known to science. It was discovered by Hippolito Ruiz and José Pavon, Spanish
botanists who travelled in Peru and Chili between the years 1777 and 1793, to explore
for the Spanish Government the Cinchona forests of Peru. The name Masderallia was
originated by them in lonour of their fellow-countryman Dr. Josepho Masdevall, a
eclebrated botanist and physician of the eighteenth century. The only locality known
as the habitat of IW. wiiftora is Huassa-huassi, about twelve miles from Tarma, a small
town ina valley of the Peruvian Andes, 9,738 feet above the level of the sea, and about
Io miles EANZE. from Lima. Tarma was the head-quarters of Ruiz and Pavon during
the autumn of 1779. and the result of their numerous expeditions in the neighbourhood
of this town was the discovery of many new and rare plants. At the date of their visit
to Tuassa-huassi, it was a small village of about forty inhabitants, and is described by
Ruiz in his diary as being situated in the depths of a steep narrow ravine, upon the
banks ofa mountain torrent of the same name, whieh precipitates itself rapidly from rock
to rock in one continuous and beautiful cascade of snow-white foam. About five miles
from the vilktge stretched the primeval forests, up to the borders of which barbarous
Indian tribes from remote regions earried ou their ‘ampaigns, The mountain slopes
around [uassa-huassi are very beautiful, covered with brilliant flowering plants, among
Which Orchids are the most abundant, their bulbs crowding the entire surface of the
driest and most rocky ground, while their curious and elegant flowers fill the air with
fragrance,

Ih the Quichna language—the language of the Incas of Peru—the name Huassa-
huassi signifies “many houses,” and the local name for A. uniflora is stated to be
“ Rima-rimas an appellation given in this part of Peru to many other flowers, especially
Orchids.

Since its discovery, more than one hundred years ago, J/. nniflora has never again
been met with. and there is no record that its habitat has since been visited by any
botanist. Et has never been in cultivation, and is only known to botanists as a dried
plant. of which, so firas Tecan ascertain. four specimens still exist, two in the Museum
at Madrid. one in the Boissier Herbarium at Chambesy, and a small one consisting of a
Dud and two leaves (fig. 11 in the accompanying Plate), given to me by Dr. Miguel
Colmeiro of Madrid. To Dr. Colmeiro Lam also indebted for the graceful drawing
here published—executed by his former pupil, Senor Manuel Janer, from the best of

Description of Plate:

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Ruiz and Pavon’s specinens—as well as for an exact description of the colouring of the
flowers, taken from unpublished notes by the two botanists. This valuable material has
enabled us to give the first complete representation of Wo wiiflora, the ouly drawine
made by Ruiz and Pavon being a wood-cut of a single detached flower, with botanical
details, published in the Prodromus of their magnificent book upon the Flora of Peru
and Chili, It was evidently their intention to prepare a more complete drawing of the
plant, for, in their “Systema Vegetabilium” a seventh volume of their great work is
referred to: only four volumes, however, were published. No fresh flowers of
M. uniflora being available for dissection, it has been thought advisable to copy the
botanical details from the wood-cut given by Ruiz and Pavon, as shown in. the
accompanying Plate at figs. 6 to 10.

The plant represented as J. uniflora by Humboldt, Boupland, and Kunth, in their
“Nova Genera et Species Plantarum,” is undoubtedly not the original species so mamed
by Ruiz and Pavon, and the drawing was suspected by Dr. Lindley “to have been made
up with the flowers of JZ. coriacea and the leaves of J. dweis.” This suspicion was shared
by Professor Reichenbach, who described AZ. wieiflora in Bouplandia LV., 1856, from a
specimen which had formed part of a very valuable collection of dried plants belonging
to Pavon, and after his death discovered by Mons. Reuter hidden away in a garret in
Madrid. Mons. Reuter purchased the collection for the Boissier Herbarium, of which
he was then Curator, and the Orchids were submitted to Professor Reichenbach for
examination and description. The present Curator of the Boissier Herbarium, Mons.
Eugéne Autran, has most kindly allowed me to examine this specimen, which consists
of four leaves and two flowers, with one petal and lip detached. the apparent colouring
of the sepals agreeing exactly with the colour-description quoted below from Ruiz’s
manuscript at Madrid. A drawing of this specimen, together with the small dried piece
and the drawing sent to me from Madrid by Dr. Colmeiro, may be seen in the Natural
History Museum at South Kensington, to which LE have presented them in order to
preserve a record of every known example of this interesting and mysterious plant.

The species most vearly allied to AL. wiglora appears to be AW. fonocharis, which. it
resembles in the shape of the petals, and still more in the shape. venation. and general
appearance of the sepals, as well as in the outline of the leaves. with their long slender
petioles.

The following are unpublished descriptions by Ruiz and Pavon, the first. sent from
Madrid by Dr. Colineiro, giving the exact colour of the flowers: the second was copicd
for me by Mr. Carruthers, together with much of the above information. from a volume
of manuscript notes by Ruiz in the Botanical Library of the Natural History Museum,
from which also Consul Lehmann kindly translated for me Ruizs account in Spanish of
the neighbourhood of Huassa-huassi :

“ Masderallia uniflora: foliis oblougo-spathulatis, pedunculis wniflovis, longissiinis.
Radiv Jasciculata, Jibrosa : gibra ramosa, filijormes, lougissimee in verticillas. Folia
oblongo-spathulata, longe petiolata, glabra emarginata cum dentienwla, Petiolus canalicu-
latus, triarticulatus excartioatione petioli media ortus, Pedunculus subpodatis, erectus,
teres, glaber, biarticulatus, uniflorus, vaginis totidem, Covolla basi lutea ad median alba,
apice purpurascens, tricornis;: hujus color marine varia. Neetaris labinm infevius
COrinatin SUPrd CONLCIUNL, SLAG HATES JOE POLMO

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campanilata, trifida » laciniis ovatis, corniculatis; superiove paulo-minori, basi sevice,
corniculis subulatis simplicibus. Nectaviuu triphylla ineurcens laciiia superiore covolle
foliolis receptaculo insertis duobus latere pistilli, maritlajocuibus : alteriwn pistillo
oppositum pedicellatian oratian (on forma de Tala) integrian, Stamina filauente due

brevissiina labio superiovi nectarti insidicnta, Authera obocatu tecta. — Pistillum germen
oblongian coutortiunm infertan. Stylus longia carinatus, Stiga obsoletian. — Pericarpiun
capsula oblougia wnilocilaris trivaleis. Senina numerosa miutissina — Reecptacitin

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MASDEVALLIA WAGENERIANA Lindl.

Masprevani1a Wacexentaxa Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. HT. (1852-3), p. 74, fir. 267 ; Rev. ed. (1884)

vol. IIT... ISS. fhe. 250; pach: te Bonplandia Il. (1854), p. 23; Bot. M: ag. t. 4921 (1856) ; Xen.
reli it ae oS). P LOG wea - fig. TH. ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 188, Gard. Chron. 1881, pt-1.,
p. 203 pt. IL. p. $09; 1883, pt. Ly p. 598; Orclidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 52; Veitch

Manual Orch. prt. Yv = (CURSO) aprons

Leaf about 2 inches lone, spathulate, coriaceous, carinate, apex tridenticulate, dark green, narrowing

helow into a slender erooved petiole, sheathed at the base, blackish- purple.

Peduncle. with pedicel, 2 or 2) inches long, terete, slender, pale green, ascending from the base of the

petiole, with two pale green or blackish sheathing bracts; flowering bract about 4 inch long, carinate,

apiculate, sheathing, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base.
Ovary | inch long, with six rounded angles. green. with minute black dots.

+ inch, forming a wide tube, slightly gibbous beneath ;

Sepals cohering nearly equally for about 4
dorsal sepal ovate for about } inch, 3-nerved, cucullate : lateral sepals cordate, 3-nerved, margins reflexed ;

all bright clear yellow, with mumerous minute crimson spots and crimson nerves, and terminating in

slender ereenish-vellow tails 13 or 2 inches long.

Petals about 2 inch Jong, oblong, anterior margin winged and angled, apex dentate, pale yellow.
8 s ] 3

Lip nearly j inch long, united to the foot of the columm by an extremely flexible hinge, margins of

basal balf'so much reflexed as to meet at the back, anterior half triangular, margins crenate. pale trans-
parent vellow. with minute crimson spots, apex reflexed, covered with minute crimson hairs.
Column about {inch long. broadly winged, very pale pink. spotted and bordered with rose-pink. apex

dentate.

ene only localities recorded as the habitat of AZ Wageneriana are in Venezuela,

where it was discovered by Moritz in February, 1849, growing on trees in the
German Colony of Tovar. In July of the following year it was found by Wagener at an
elevation of 6,000 feet near Carabobo, a village about nine miles south-west of Valencia,
in Venezucka. Wagener’s imported plants flowered at Brussels in 1851 under the care
of Mons. Linden, for the first time in cultivation. From these specimens a drawing was
published by Professor Reichenbach in 1858 in.“ Xenia Orchidacea.” The woodcut in
Paxton’s “ Flower Garden” represents a flower with the sepals tightly closed together,
and is evidently drawn from a faded specimen.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :

Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;

—2, petal, inner side ;—2a,
3a, lip. back view ;—4, column ;-—da, apex of column; all enlarged ;—

side of petal ;—8, lip, front view ;—
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MASDEVALLIA XANTHINA Rchb. f.

Masprvaniia xanriixa Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1880, pt. 1. p. 681; 1881, pt. L, p. 720 (under M.
Wageneriana Lindl.) ; pt. IL. p. 409; 1883, pt. T., p. 598 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889)
p- 42 (as VW. Estrade var. vanthina).

Var. pallida, var. nov.

Leaf 2) or 3 inches Jong, and about 2 inch wide, cblong-ovate, carinate, apex sharply tridenticulate,

dull green, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base and stained with black.

Peduncle nearly 3 inches long, slender, erect, terete, with one or two sheathing bracts, very pale
green ; flowering bract 3 inch long, 3-nerved, sheathing below, apiculate, brown or blackish-green, with a
minute rudimentary bud within at the base.

Ovary about 4 ineh Jong. curved, with six rounded angles, whitish-green.

Sepals cohering only at the base, about # inch long; dorsal sepal 5-nerved, obovate, cucullate, margin
recurved at the base, brilliant yellow, the nerves greenish at the back, tapering into a slender tail 14 or
1) inch long, orange at the apex, greenish at the base ; lateral sepals oblong, 3-nerved, brilliant yellow,
with a dark crimson blotch at the base of each, terminating in slender tails 1 inch or 14 inch long, orange
at the apex, greenish at the base.

Petals about |

Linch long, oblong, with an incurved keel on the anterior margin, apex tridentate,

ivory-white, semi-transparent.
Lip about inch long. oblong. fleshy and grooved at the basc, and united to the curved foot of the

colmun by a flexible hinge, margin recurved. semi-transparent, pale vellow minutely dotted with crimson,

apex recurved, with a small cushion of extremely minute dark crimson papillae.

Column equalling the petals, broadly winged, white, bordered with crimson and spotted with erimson

on the wings. apex and foot, apex acutely tridentate.

N°? record is published of the locality in which MJasdecallia wanthina was first found,
1 or of the naine of its discoverer. The specimens described by Professor Reichen-
bach in ISSO were supplied to him by Messrs. Veitch, who, however, were unable to give
any information as to its origin.

3y some botanists IW. .cauthina is considered to be merely a variety of A. Estrada,
but Consul Lehmann, who has had ample opportunity of examining and comparing both
plants in their native habitat, is strongly opposed to this theory, and declares them to be
specifically distinet, WW. canthing being in itself a very variable species, ranging over a
geographical area of at least six hundred miles from north to south.

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattlhe Abbe :
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ; —1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—
3. lip -—4. column j;—da, apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf ;—6, rar. pallida,

from oa drawing by Consul Lelimann :—7. ripe seed-capsule from a plant at Newbattle Abbey ; «//

natural size.

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MASDEVALLIA XANTHINA.

The numerous names of localities mentioned below by Consul Lehmann, most of
them not being marked in any map yet published, will probably convey but little
information to any person unacquainted with the district. It is hoped, however, that
with his assistance all these names will be indicated in the map intended for publication
with the final chapters of the present work.

Masdevallia vanthina is found in the States of Colombia and Ecuador, in very nuncrous localities
It grows near the ground upon the trunks of oxks and other trees, in dense and very damp woods. at an
elevation of 1,800 to 2,500 métres (5,850 to 8,125 feet), Howering in October and November. Of all known
species of Masdevallia, M. xanthina has the most extensive geographical distribution. The following are
the principal localities in which [ have observed it :

In the Province of Antioquia, Colombia :—In park-like woods near Mliconia and Amaga ; on the Rio
Chico and the Rio Grande, end on the Highlands of San Pedro and Santa Rosa ; around La Palma and on
the Alto de San Miguel near Medellin, and on oak trees in great abundance about the Roblarcito near
Sonson.

In the Province of Cauca, Colombia :—About La Ceja near Inzi, and in the Vicinity of the Rio
Coquive and Lame on the Sestern declivities of the Central Cordillera of Popavatnt; near Poblazon,
Paisbamba, and on the western slopes of the volcano of Sotars; in the v icinity, of Pansitfavi and Almaguer,
and from hence in an uninterrupted line along the Pisatumba, Gay 0. Achupayi, Mamendoi, Lia Cruz, an
Aponte, as far as the Paramo de Cebollas near Pasto.

In Ecuador:—On the south-western slopes of the Piiramo de Mojanda, Province of Quito, and at
Chiguinda on the eastern slopes of the Eastern Andes of Cuenca.

Still further south, on the eastern Andes of Loja, I observed afew years ago some plants which
probably belonged to this species, but as I found no flowers, it must remain an open question whether
M. xranthina extends as far south.

It is generally a very abundant species, and especially so in the district between Popaviin and Pasto,
but the plants rarely attain large proportions. Shade and constant dampness are essential to the growth
of AL. ranthina, and the entire area of its distribution is remarkable for these characteristics. The num-
ber of days without rainfall is very small throughout the year. The aunual average temperature of the
region ranges between 14° and 18° Centigrade (about 57° to 64° Fahrenheit).

The extensive geographical distribution of JZ. wanthina causes considerable variation in the size and
colour of the flowers, but this variation is not sufficient to justify the opinion that MM. Bsirade@ is only a
variety of this species, although in some places in Antioquia the two plants are to be found growing
together. The only form of AL. xanthina known in cultivation comes from Antioquia, where the flowers
are smallest. and generally of a bright apricot yellow colour. Further south, in the province of Cauca,
they become larger, and paler in colour, In plants growing on the volcano of Sotar and at Paishamba
near Popavin, the flowers are nearly pure white, and have not the purple spot at the base of the Jareral
sepals, which is a constant feature in the flowers from all other lucalities. The Quito variety is the most

- floriferous, and the flowers rise freely above the large, densely tufted masses of leaves. The lirgest-

flowered variety grows on the Eastern Andes of Cuenca, but the flowers are dull vellowish-white, and

sometimes speckled with very minute brownish dots.

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SECTION XIV.

TRIARISTELLA Rechb. f.

HE plants of this Section are distinguished by their small linear leaves, wire-like
flower-stems, and boat-shaped lateral sepals, cohering for almost their entire
length, the dorsal sepal being united to them for only a short distance near the base.
Several species are known only in Herbaria, and have never been named or described.

3 species figured:

Masdevallia gemmata Rehb. f. (=A. trichete Rehb. 7)
triaristella Rehb. tf. (=. tridactylites Rehb. 7.)
triglochin Rebb. f.

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MASDEVALLIA GEMMATA Rehb. f.

MaspreVALLIA GEMMATA Rehb. ft. Gard. Chron. 1883, pe. De

> p. 2945 Orehidophile (Godefroy) 1884,
p. 56: Veiteh Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 44.

M. trichate Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1885, pt. IL. p. 860 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1884, p- 223: Veitch
Manual Orch.. pt. V. (1889), p. 44.
Leaf 1} or 2 inches long. linear, fleshy, grooved on the upper side, apex tridenticulate, narrowing
below into a slender terete petiole. sheathed at the base, dull green, often deeply tinged with reddish-
purple.

Pedunele nearly 5 inches long. terete, thread-like or wiry, ascending or lateral from the base of the
petiole. producing two or three flowers in succession, with one or two closely-sheathing bracts, dull

reddish-green ; flowering bract about 2 inch long, ovate. apiculate, sheathing below. dull green or
brownish.

Ovary about } inch Jong. with six rounded angles, sometimes crenate, dull green.

Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals only near the base, free portion triangular-ovate for

about | inch, 5-nerved. cucullate, reddish-vellow, veined with crimson, and terminating in a slender vellow
tail about 3 inch long :

: lateral sepals cohering for 2 inch, boat-shaped, 5-nerved, terminating in slender

vellow tails about 4 inch long, dull reddish, shaded and veined with crimson.

Petals } inch Jong. oval. apex tridentate, pale vellow, with a crimson central streak.
Lip longer than the petals, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, cordate, with three
longitudinal dines. margins and apex reflexed, mauve-purple, shaded and spotted with crimson.

Column a little longer than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, yellow tipped with green,
the foot pink.

MPORTED by Mr. FL Wallace. of Colchester, and named by Professor Reichenbach
in TSs5. with no record of its habitat.

Explanation of Plate. drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
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e. 1. petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

3. lip s—4. colin :—da. apex of column ;—S5, apex and section of leaf; a// enlarged.

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MASDEVALLIA TRIARISTELLA Rchb. f.

MASDEVALIIA TRIAKISTELLA Rehb. tf. Gard. Chron. 1876. pt. IL., pp. 226 and 559, fig. 108 ; Bot. Mag.
t. 6268 (S76); Veitel Manual Orch... pt. V. (1889), p. 66.
M. tridactylites Rehh. t. Gard. Chron. 1883. pt. lL. p. 784; Veitch Manual Orch., pt. V. (1889), p. 66.

leat about 2 inches long, growing in dense tufts, linear, channelled, Very voriaceous, apex rounded
and tridenticulate, green tinged with purple. narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole. sheathed at
the base.

Peduncle 5 or 4 inches long, slender and wiry, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the
petiole, in some specimens rough with minute warts, with two closely-sheathing bracts producing two or

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three flowers in succession, dull brownish-green : flowering bract minute, ovate, apiculate, sheathing
below, pale green.

Ovirv 2 inch long, with six crenate wings. pale green tinged with red.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral scpals for a little more than £ inch, free portion ovate,
cuculate. 3-nerved. the central nerve carmate on the outer surface, terminating in a slender club-shaped
yellow tail: lateral sepals cohering for their entire length, more than 4 inch, linear, boat-shaped, 3-nerved,
each sepal diverging into a slender club-shaped yellow tail: all the sepals vellow, veined and tinged
with red.

Petals about } inch long. linear-oblong, tridentate, vellow, with a broad red central streak.

Lip longer than the petals. deeply bi-lobed at the base, and united by a flexible hinge to the foot of
the column. tongue-shaped. curved, with two obscure longitudinal keels, red. the margin and apex
darker red.

Column clib-shaped, narrowly winged. apex denticulate. vellow and red.

ie oe Scrls TRIARISTELLA was discovered in Costa Rica in 1875, by
: Endres. who sent plants to Messrs. Veitch. Professor Reichenbach founded
from ita new section, “ Triaristelle,” of which it was the first species, and which now
includes three or four more recently discovered plants.

AM. tridactylites. wamed and deseribed by Reichenbach in 1888,
AM. triaristella. The species is a variable one, sometimes developing flower-stems five
or six inches in length, with Jong, slender, dull-red flowers. The leaves apparently do

not varvanuch in length, but in the long-stalked plants they are more slender. The
T have seen plants

is identical with

small rough warts upon the flower-stems are not a constant feature.
With no sign of them, and others in which they were very noticeable, although the
leaves and flowers of all the plants were alike in colour and size.

Consul Lehmann informs ine that J. triaristeda grows in great abundance on the
mountains of San Cristobal and near the sources of the river Reventazon, near Cartago,
Costa Rien. at an elevation of 1,600 to 2,000 métres (5,200 to 6,500 feet)—in fact, in
nearly the same locality as J. Reieheubachiana

Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey :
Fig. 1. petal. lip. and column, in natural position ;—Ia. section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—

A hip —44. column :— da. Apex of columm 5. HPON and seetion of leat; all enlarged.

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MASDEVALLIA TRIGLOCHIN Rchb. f

Masprvaniia creignocus Relb. f Gard. Chron. 1877. pt. IL, p. G48; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409; Otia. Bot.
ITamb. p. I (USTS) : Garden, 1880. pt. TT., p. 614; 1890, pte Ue epe laa:

Leafiabout Tt inch long, linear, fleshy, apex tridenticulate, narrowine below into wu grooved petiole,
sheathed at the base. dull purplish-ereen,

Peduncle about 2 inches long, terete, wiry, studded with minute asperities. ascending from the base
of the petiole, bearing two or three flowers in succession, each having a minute membranous apiculate
bract at the base of the pedicel, dull brownish-green.

Ovary fineh lone. hexagonal, with six crenate wings, dull ereen.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for Linch, free portion triangular-ovate for about

lineh. S-nerved, cncullate, terminating ina slender yellow tail } inch long : lateral sepals cohering for

nearly ? inch, boat-shaped, S-nerved, terminating in slender vellow tails 2 inch Jong; all dark reddish-
vellow shaded and vetned with dark red.

Petals seareely Linch long. oblong, apiculate, orange-vellow, with a broad crimson central streak.

Lip Jonger than the petals, united to the foot of the column by a fexible hinge. oblong-cordate, with
two angled Jongitudinal dines, dull orange-vellow. niargined with red.
Colwnn a little longer than the petals. narrowly winged. apex denticulate. vellow and ereen. the base

sid foot edeed with red.

\ ASDEVALLIA TRIGLOCHIEIN was discovered by Consul Lehmann at Quito, in
7 the north of Ecuador, at an elevation of 5,500 feet. Living plants were sent by
him to Messrs. Low. of Clapton, and first flowered in 1877, supplying the specimens
named and deseribed by Professor Reichenbach. Since its first: introduction, this
curious little plant has become very searce in cultivation, aud has almost died out, even
in the most complete collections of Masdevallias. For the specimen here figured, [am
indebted to Mr. FL W. Moore, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasneyvin, Dublin.

Eexplunation of Phate :

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TUBULOSA£ Rchb.

PAYEE species included in this Section are remarkable for the very long narrow tube
formed by the sepals. By the advice of Consul Lehmann I place MZ. rosea in this
croup with JZ. ceutricularia.

2 species figured :

Masdevallia rosea Lindl.
ventricularia Rehb. f. (aot in cultivation.)

Not in cultivation ¢

M. coustricta Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. IT. (1838), p. 6. pl. 108.
tubulosa Lindl. Oreh. Lind. (1546), p. 4.
ventricularia Rehb. f. (see Llate. )

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MASDEVALLIA ROSEA Lindl.

Maspevarita HOSEA Lindl. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. (1845), p. 257; Bonplandia II. (1854),
p- 116; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 192; Belg. Hort. XXII. (1873), p. 360; Otia Bot. Hamb.
(S78), p. 14; Gard. Chron. 1880, pt. 1. pp. 554, 648, 680 and 6S], figs. 117 and 118; 1881,
pt. II, p. 337, fig. 65; 1882, pt. TL, pp. G28 and 644, fig. 101; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1882,

p-. 397; 1886, p. 235.

Leaf 5.or 6 inches long and about 1 inch wide. oblong-lanceolate, carinate, acutely tridenticulate,
bright ereen, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, closely sheathed at the base.

>, ‘le 3 ~Oq . » r “eC . De ‘rete » . © oo +

Pedune le 5 or 6 inches long, very slender, terete, erect, pale green, with one or two sheathing bracts ;
flowering hract 3 inch long, sheathing, apiculate, brownish.

Ovary about | inch long, triangular, with rounded angles, light green, sometimes brown or blackish.

Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 14 inch, forming a narrow tube, bright red
and shining on the outer surface and shaded with rose-lilac, free portion triangular for 4 inch, rose-lilac,
tapering into a very slender tail 1 or 14 inch long, bright red ; lateral sepals cohering for 14 inch, free
portions oblong for about 1 inch, bright rose-lilac veined with dark rose, terminating in slender bright

red tails 2 or } inch long.

Petals ,\, inch long, ligulate, angled on both margins near the base, apex tridenticulate, very pale vellow.

Lip y{, inch long, pandurate, pale yellow and slightly hairy at the base, with two pink longitudinal
keels, apex dark reddish-purple, covered with stiff hairs.

Columm nearly | inch long, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white.
N\ ASDEVALLIA ROSEA was discovered in 1842 or 1843, by Theodore Hartweg,
+ near Loja in Ecuador, and from dried specimens collected by him it was first
named and described by Dr. Lindley in 1845. No importation of living plants was
effected until 1880. when Consul Lehmann sueceeded in bringing home a quantity. In
ISS2. the first living flowers seen in Europe were produced from these plants distributed
wnong various private collections of Orchids. The flower varies slightly in size and in
brillianey of colour, and the plant drawn for the accompanying plate was considered by
Professor Reichenbach to be a rather narrow and dark-flowered variety. The stem is
usually one-flowered, although ina wild state stems bearing two and even three flowers
have been met with, and have also occasionally appeared in cultivated plants.

Consul Lehmann sends me the following note:
Masderallia rosea evows on the Eastern Andes from the southern part of Colombia to
the south of Ecuador at an elevation of 2,800 to 3,200 metres (9,100 to 10,400 feet). In
1877 I met with it on the Voleano Tunguragua, and subsequently in the Eastern Andes
of Cucnea and Loja, in the south of Ecuador. It grows on trees in dense and damp
woods. The annual mean temperature of the region ranges between 10° and 12°°5
Centigrade (50° to 4° Fahrenheit).

The only plants existing in Europe originate from an importation of mine ce i
1ss0, from the Andes of Pasto in Colombia. In its natural habitat the plant flowers in

October and November, and also in June, July and August.
F. C. LeEnMAnNy.

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Rares ail petal, lip. and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary —
all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of |

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MASDEVALLIA VENTRICULARIA Rehb. f. Otin Bot. amb. (1878), p. 14.

Leat 5 or 6 inches long, oblone-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, narrowing

helow into a slender erooved
petiole, sheathed at the base. bright creen,

Un ‘lo oD mes . ’ wr * ] ] j
Pedunele 2 or 3 inches lone. terete, slender, with two sheathing bracts, bright green, ascending from

Within the sheath at the base of the petiole ; flowering bract 3 inch long, membranous apiculate. sheathing

helow. brownish.
Ovary J inch long. with six erooves, green shaded with brown,

Sepals cohering for about 25 inches, forming a narrow inflated tube, vellow at the base. free portions
trinneular-ovate for 2 inch, the dorsal one cueullate, the lateral ones angled at their junction, all rich
Prownish-crimson, with numerous darker streaks. and terminating in slender yellow tails 1 to 3 inches lone

Petals oblong, curved, apiculate, angled on the anterior margin, white, with a few crimson spots.

Lip oblong-ovate. with two longitudinal keels. and united to the foot of the column by a hinge, dull
purple.

Column a little shorter than the petals. erect, apex denticulate, white.

LTHOUGH WW. rentricularia was discovered by Dr. Jameson, during his travels in

Ecuador, it was not from his specimens that Reichenbach named and described
the plant. In 1877 it was found again by Consul Lehmann, on the western slopes of the
mountains of Calacali, near Quito, and he informs me that it was upon the small short-
tailed form, fig. 5 of the accompanying Plate, that Reichenbach bestowed the name, and
from which he wrote his description. It has never been in cultivation, and is, even in

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its native habitat. a rare species, confined to sinall areas in only a few localities. Several
Varicties exist. the extremes of which are well shown in the graceful drawing supplied
for the present work by Consul Lelnmann, who has had unusual opportunities of obsery-
ine the plant. We first found it at Anque near Quito, represented by the short-tailed
varicty (fig. 5). and again on the western slopes of the Cerro del Corazon between the
Pucnte de Yambova and Milligallé. The long-tailed variety was found by him at the
Paratlones de Cali in the Province of Cauca, and other slightly differing forms exist at
Prontino in Antioquia aud on the Alto de Loaiza, Cauca. It grows most frequently
upon the thin diana-like branches of Psamuisia, Eurygania, and other Vacciniaceous
shrubs. and sometimes also quite near the ground on the trunks of decaying trees in
damp shady forests, at an clevation of 1,800 to 2,200 meétres (5,850 to 7,160 feet) above

sea-level,

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petal, outer side —t. petal and column, much enlarged ;—-5, type ot tlic flower, first ngmed® )y

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GENUS: MAS DEWAT IT A.

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they are, therefore, not numbered. As the Genus is divided into Sections, whitch: there
Is ho reason for placing in any particular order, they are numbered, and are, as well as
the Plates contained in cach Section, arranged alphabetically. Each name mA the indes
refers to the mumber and name of the Section to which the plant is assigned, or ia
synonym, to the accepted name of the plant. The names of all species and variéties
not figured in the book are printed in italies, and to those now excluded from the Genus
Masdevallia, the names of the Genera in which they are classed are added.

M. abbreviata, Section [. Amandie. | M. bella, Section XL Saccolabiatze.
|

acrochordonia, var. see Ephippiun, Benedicti,=Houtteana.

cequilobaseivilis. bicolor, see maculata.

afjinis, Section JIL. Coriacee. | biflora,=caloptera.

albida=intracta. | Boddaerti, var. sec militaris.
amabilis, Section Il. Coccinew. | Bouplandii, Section IIL. Coriacew.
Amanda, Section I. Amanda. brevis, Scaphosephahon.

Amesiana, X see Tovarensis. | Bruchmiilleri=coriacea.
amethystina, Scaphosepation. Buccinator, Section VILL. Polyanthe.
anachate, Section 1 Amanda. | Burbidgeana, var. of Chimera.

auchorifera, Scaphosepataan. { ‘ eye: f
Peas Take | cacsia, Section indeterminate.
angulata, Section ILL, Coriacea. | sean
| caloptera, Section 1. Amand.

approcida, var, see jovocharis. ie
; tie P calopterocarpa, Section I. A mand.
aristata, Section VILL. Polvanthie.

be 5 ee ee “Wis calura, Section X. Reichenbachianz.
Arminii, Section XIIT, Triangulares.

calyptrata, Section 1 V. Cucullata.

astuta, var. see ervthrochivte. MA z
: rampyloglossa, Section III. Coriacee.

CEP OPM PHC =A UVLO PULPUreAa, i didal_Tovatenain.
Carderi, Section XI. Saccolabiatie.
caudata, Section III. Triangulares.
caudata-Estrada, X see caudata.

Cayennensis, Section III. Coriacee.

attenuata, Section VI. Minutie.
aurantiaca, Section VILL Polyauthe.
aurantiaea, var. sce militaris.
anrantiaed, var. see Reichenbachiana.

auved, var, of militaris. ; erie
Chelsoni, X see Veitchiana.

Chestertonii, Section XI. Saccolabiate.
Section XI., Saccolabiate.

auveolutea, Section indeterminate.

auriculigera, Plenrothallis. ‘ey
Chimera,

chloracra, Section I TI. Coriacee.
Chontalensis, Section VI. Minute.
vamomea, Section VILL. Polyanthe.

citrina, var. see militaris.

auropurpurea, Section VITI. Polyanthe.

CEICEDS. Pleurothallis.

ACCo- cin

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Backhousiana, var. Section XI. 3
labiatie.

* ' * Gan \ te ae 2p,

Barkeana, Section Ll. Coccinei. civilis, Section III. Coriacee

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INDEX OF THE GENUS MasprvaLiia

M. coccinea, Section Il. Coccinez. | M. Gaskelliana, rar. sev erythvochiwte

Colibri, =Ephippium.

constricta, Section XV. Tubulose.
coriacea, Section LIL. Coriacez.
corniculata, Section IV. Cucullate.
Costaricensis, = marginella,
Courtauldiana, Xx sev caudata.
crassicaudata, var. see polysticta.
cucullata, Section IV. Cucullate.
culex, Pleurothallis.

cuprea, Section VIII. Polyanthe.
cupularis, Section III. Coriacez.
curtipes, Section VIII. Polyanthe.

Davisii, Section I]. Coccine.

Dayana, Cryptophoranthus.

demissa, Section X. Reichenbachianz.
dolosa, var. of Chimera.

Echidna, Scaphosepahun.
Eduardi, Section 1X. Racemose.
elephanticeps, Section III. Coriacez.

elephanticeps var. pachysepala, =
Mooreana.

ellipes, Section IIT. Coriacec.
Ellisiana, x see militaris.

ensata, Section ITT. Coriacce.
Ephippium, Section VIIL. Polyanthe.

erinacea, Scaphoscpalum.

erythrochete, Section XI. Saccolabiate.

Estradze, Section XIII. Triangulares.
expansa, Section XIII. Triangulares.

Jaleago, Section V. Fissa.

fasciata, Section indeterminate.
fenestrata, Cryptophoranthus.

flava, rar. see maculata.

Aaveola, Section VI. Minute. 2
Horibunda, Section ITK Triangulares.
Forgetiana, var. sce infracta.
fractiflexa, Section ILI. Coriacez.
fragrans, Section III. Coriacee.

Fraseri, X sce militaris.

fulvescens, Section X. Reichenbachiane.

Gairiana, X gee Veitchiana.
Galeata, Section indeterminate.
Galcottiana, = floribunda.

Gargantua, = elephant iceps.

Geleniana, X see candata.

geminata, Section XTV. Triaristelle
gilberosa, Seaphosepatiun.
glossapoygon, Pleurothallis.
Gorgon, var. of Chimera.
gracilenta, Pleurothallis.

Gustari, Section 1 Amande.
guttulata, Section VIEL Polyanthie.

Guyanensis, Section indeterminate.

Harrvana, ear. see coccinea.
hematocantha, Section VILL, Polyanthee.
hamatosticta, Section indeterminate.
FTeathii, X see militaris.
heteroptera, Section indeterminate.
heterotepala, Section ITT. Coriacea.
hians, Section VI, Minute.
hieroglyphica, Section XIII. Triangu-
lares.
Hincksiana, x see Tovarensis.
Houtteana, Section XI. Saccolabiate.
hymenantha, Section XID Triangu-

lares.

hypodiscus, Cryptophoranthus.

iguea, = militaris.

inmcequalis, Section XID. Triangulares
inflata, var. see corniculata.
infracta, Section VILL. Polvanthe.

ionocharis, Section XIL1. Triangulares
Klabochorian, Section indeterminate.

levis, Section LIL. Coriucce.
Laushergii, Section VIL Minute.
lata, Section VILL, Polyanthe.
Laucheana, Section ILL. Coriacew
Lehmanni, Section 1. Amande.
leontozlossa, Section ILI. Coriaceie.
lepida, Section LLL. Coriacee.
Lindeni, = coccinea.

Lindeniana, = floribunda.
Livingstoniana, 2 urothallis.
longicandata, = intracta.

Lowii, = trinema

Inbibunda, car. sce Estrade.

macrochila, = Chesterton,

macrodactyla, Scaphosepalan.

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M. macroglossa, Section LIT, Coriacee. M. pumila, Section VI. Minute.

imacrura, Section LV. Cucullatie.

maculata, Section VELL Polyanthe.

marginella, Section X. Reichenbachiane.

Mershalliana, var, see militaris.
Massangeana, var. see militaris.
Mastodon, Section VIL. Polyanthe.
Measuresiana, X see Tovarensis.
meiracyllinm, Section indeterminate,

melanopus, Scetion [. Amand.

melanovantha, Section VILL, Polyanthe.

meleagris, = picturata.

meleagris, Section indeterminate.
microglochin, Section NT. Saccolabiate.
militaris, Section Lf. Coccinee.
minita, Section VI, Minute.

molossus, Section NIT. Saltatrices.
Mooreana, Section LLI. Coriacee.
mordar, Section indeterminate.
AMundyana, X sce militaris.

muscosa, Section VIL. Muscosie.

myriostigia, = floribunda.

nidifica, Seetion VI. Minutie.
Voormann, = Reichenbachiana.

nycterina, Section XL. Saccolabiate.

O'Brieniana, Section XLL. Saltatrices.
ochthodes, Scaphosepahamn.
ophioglossa, Section VIL Minute.

Ortgiesiana, Section LLL. Coriacez.

pachyantha, Section LIL. Coriacew.
pachyura, Section [. Amandee.
Patrwana, Section NILLT. Triangulares.
pallida, var, see Nauthina.

pardina, Section LIT, Coriacee.
Parlatoreana, x see Veiteliana.
Peristeria, Section III. Coriacex.
picturata, Section V. Piss.
platyerater, Section NJ. Saccolabiate.
platyglossa, Section IIL. Coriacee.
platyrhachis, Pleurothallis.
polyautha, var. sce Schiimii.
polysticta, Section 1. Amand.
porcelliceps, Section ILL. Coriacei.
psittacina, = Houtteana.

puleinaris, Scaphoscpatan.

punctata, Scaphosepalun.

purpurea, var. seo intracta.

pusilla, Section XI. Saccolabiatie.

pusiola, Section VI. Minute.

racemosa, Section LX. Racemose.

radiosa, Section XL. Saccolobiatie.

Reichenbachiana, Section X. Reichen-
bachianve.

Roezlii, var. Section XI. Saccolabiatie.
Rolfeana, Section X. Reichenbachiane.
Rosea, Section XV. Tubulose.

rufolutea, = civilis.

Saltatrix, Section NII. Saltatrices.

Sceptruin, var, see Schiimnii.

Schlimii, Section VILL. Polyanthwz.

Schroederiana, Section X. Reichen-
bachiane.

senilis, var. of Chimera.

severa, var. of Chimera.
Shuttleworthii, = caudata.

simula, Section XII. Saltatrices.
sororcula, = Mooreana.

Spectrum, Section NI. Saccolabiate.
splendens, X sce Veitchiana.
splendida, x see Veitchiana.
splendida, var. of Chimera.
Sprucei, Section indeterminate,
Stobartiana, var. see militaris.
striatella, Section III. Coriaccie.
strumifera, Section indeterminate.
Surinamensis, Section indeterminate.

swertiafolia, Scaphosepalum.

torta, Section III. Coriacew.
Tovarensis, Section VIII. Polyanthie.
triangularis, Section XITI. Triangulares.
triaristella, Section XIV. Triaristelle.
trichute, = gemmata.

tricolor, Section indeterminate.
tricolor, Section XILL. Triangtlares.
tridactylites, = triaristella.

tridens, Section I. Amanda.
tridentata, Section VILL. Polyauthe.
triglochin, Section XIV. Triaristella.

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Troglodytes, Section XI. Saccolabiate.

Tubeana, Section YI. Saccolabiate.
tubulosa, Section XV. Tubulose.

uncifera, Section V. Fisse.
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urostachya, Section VIII. Polyanthe.

Veitchiana, Section II. Coccinex.
velifera, Section III. Coriacee.
velutina, Section XIII. Triangulares.
ventricularia, Section XV. Tubulose.
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Wendlandiana, Section VI. Minutz.

Winniana, var. of Chimeera.

xanthina, Section XIIL. Triangulares.
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xanthodactyla, Section I. Amande.
xipheres, Scuphosepalum.

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Masdevallia aurcolutea, Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. 1. (1887-3), p. 84.
cusia Roezl, Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. 1. (1881-3), p. 599,
fasctata Rehh. f- Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. 1, p. 202.
yaleata, Lind, Cat, 1873.

Guyanensis Lind! Hook, Loud. Journ. Bot. 11, (1848), p. 673.
heematosticta Rehb. f- Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 559.

heteroptera Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. I, p. 590.
meiracyllium Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1586, p. 558.

mordax Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 559.

Patewana Rehb. fo Nen. Oreh. ILL, (1878), p. 26.
Klabochorun Rehb, f. Gard. Chron. 1575, pt. I1., p. 720.
Spruce’ Lichb. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878) p. 17.

strumifera Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 560.
Surinanensis Focke Tijdschr. voor. Naturw. LV. (1851), p. 62.
tricolor Rehb fi Linnea X NIT, (1849), p. §18.

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As) & cmcthysting ichh. f. Otia Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 14 (Seaphosepaluny).
auchorifera Rchb.f. Gard. Chron, 1884, pt. 1., Dp. 277 (Seaphosepalum).
auriculigera Rehb, f. Gard. Chron. 1871, Pp. 1969 (Pleurothallis).
aviceps Pehl. f. Otia Bot. Lamb. (1878), P. 93 (Pleurothatlis).
brevis Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1883, pt. I, p. 588 (Scaphosepalun).
citer, hort. Gard. Chron, ISS, pt. 11. p. 6 (Pleurothallis Barberiana).
Dayana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron, 1880, pt. 11, p. 295 (Cryptophoranthus).
Lichidua Rehb. ¢ Bouplandia LL, (1855), p. 69 (Scaphosepalun).
erimaced Rehh. f- Linnea NLL, (1877), p. 11 (Scaphosepahun).
jenestrata Lind, Bot. Mag. t. 4164 (1847) (Cryptophoranthus).
gibberosa Rehbh. f- Gard. Chron. 1876, pt. I, p. 8 (Scaphosepalun).
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gracilenta Rehb, f. Gard. Chron, 1875, pt. I1., p. 98 (Pleurothallis ).
hypodisens Rehh. f. Gard. Chron, 1878, pt. LL., p. 234 (Pleurothallis).
Livingstoniana Rocz! Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. IL, p. 322 (Pleurothatlis).
macrodactyla Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. 1572, p. 371 (Scaphosepatun).
ochthodes Rehb. f. Bonplandia IIL, (18545), p. 70 (Seaphosepatian).
platyrhachis Rolfe Gard. Chron, IS88, pt. [1., p. 178 (Pleurothallis).
pulvinavis Rehb. fp. Gard. Chron, 1880, pt. I, p. 200 (Seaphosepahiun).
punctata Rolfe Gard. Chron. 1888, pt. IL., p. 823 (Seaphosepatum).
sirertiejolia Rehh. ¢. Gard. Chron, 1880, pt. IL, p. 390 (Scaphosepatin).
rerrucosd Rehb. f- Linnea X NIL, (1849), p. S19 (Scaphosepalum).
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