Tas. 5962. 
MASDEVALLIA IGNEA. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuipacrm.—Tribe, PLEUROTHALLIDER. 
Genus, Maspevauuia, Ruiz and Pavon ; (Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orchid., 
p. 192). 
MASDEVALLIA ignea; caulibus fasciculatis, foliis longe petiolatis ellipticis 
obtusis coriaceis, scapis gracilibus folio longioribus, floribus decurvis, 
sepalis basi in tubum subcylindricum eurvem gibbum connatis, dorsali 
inter sinum lateralium deflexo e basi triangulari elongato-subulato, 
lateralibus maximis ellipticis acutis marginibus recurvis, petalis parvis 
lineari-oblongis obtusis, basi uno latere producto, labello unguiculato 
linguwformi basi subcordato antice crenulato, columna exalata, andro- 
clinio serrulato. 
Maspevatuia ignea; Reichd. fil. in Gardener's Chronicle, Nov. 1871, p. 1482. 
_ Avery near ally of MW. Veitchiana (Tab. nost. 5739), and of 
as vivid a colour, but differing remarkably in the form of the 
leaf, which is also long-petioled, and in the shape of the 
Sepals and their disposition and curvature. According to 
Reichenbach, fil. (who quotes Mr. Day for the information), 
it was originally imported from New Grenada in March, 
1870, and sold in Stevens’s sale-rooms. That learned Or- 
chidologist describes it from specimens that flowered in 
Messrs. Day’s, Branteghem’s, and Veitch’s collections. That 
figured here is from a large flowered form which flowered in 
Mr. Bull’s establishment in February of the present year. 
The colour, though not so deep as that of the Veitchiana, is 
quite as vivid, and more resembles that of cinnabar, or, as 
Reichenbach says, a “dazzling scarlet mixed with orange- 
scarlet, too dazzling to look at long.” It thus suggests a 
transition from the red heat of Veitchiana to a white heat. 
As in the latter species, this lustre—or water, as a jeweller 
would term it—is due to the refractive power of the fluid 
APRIL Ist, 1872. 
