Tas. 7476, 
MASDEVALLIA cornicutara, var. INPLATA. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Orncuiprx.—Tribe EpIpENDRER. 
Genus Maspevatiia, Ruiz § Pav.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. 
p- 492.) 
Maspevatiia (Cucullata) corniculata, var. inflata; folio oblongo obtuso in 
petiolum sulcatum angustatosubtus carinato, bractea ampla tuboperianthii 
gquilonga cymbiformi rostrata viridi; corolle aurantiace tubo inflato 
urceolari 6-costato extus et intus rubro punctulato, lobis aureis e basi - 
triangulari longe filiferis, petalis erectis carnosulis lanceolatis basi in- 
wquilateris apices versus dentatis, labello petalis zquilongo breviter 
crasse unguiculato lanceolato obscure 3-lobo disco papilloso apice denti- 
culato, columna gracili, anthera apice truncata 2-dentata, ovario 3-alato, 
alis undulatis. 
R. inflata, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. (1881) vol. ii. p. 716. Godefroy in 
Orchidophile (1881) p. 172. 
R. corniculata var. inflata, Veitch Man. Orchid. pt. v. p. 37. 
Masdevallia corniculata belongs to a small group of the 
genus characterized by the solitary leaf-stalk and 1-fid. 
scape being enclosed in a long tubular scarious sheath, and 
by the very large cymbiform green bract that arches over the 
flower. Up to the present time only two other species of 
the group are known, WM. cucullata, Lindl., and M. 
macroura, Reichb. f. All are natives of the temperate: 
regions of the New Grenadan Cordillera. M. corniculata 
was introduced in 1877 by Messrs. Backhouse, and is well 
_ figured in the Marquess of Lothian’s fine work, ‘ The 
_ Genus Masdevallia,” in which unfortunately the plates are 
not numbered, or the descriptions paged. A reference to 
that figure shows that var. inflata differs from it most 
conspicuously in the paler colour, and much smaller spots 
_ of the perianth, and in the broader perianth-lobes, which 
are of a golden-yellow colour within, not orange-brown 
bordered with yellow, as in the figure cited of M. corni- 
culata. The lip, too, is more narrowed to the toothed 
apex, and has rounded (not acute) side-lobes. The var. 
inflata first appeared in Mr. Bull’s collection in 1881, and 
May Ist, 1896, 
