Tai3. 7859. 

 MASDEVALLIA Schecederiana. 



Native of Peru ? 



Nat. Old. Ob.chide.1;. — Tribe Epidendrej;. 



Genus Masdevallia, Buis iS: Pav.\ (Benth. ^- HooJc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. 



1>. 429.) 



Masdevallia (Coriace^) Sc/inederiana; folio 5-6-pollican crasse coriaceo 

 oblongo-lanceolato apice 3-denticulato dorso carinato basi in petiolum 

 vaginatum angustato saturate viridi, vaginis l^-l-poll. longis mem- 

 branaceis, pedunculo foliis paulJo longiore basi vagina folii inclusa, 

 gracili erecto viridi l-floro, bractea f poll, longa tubulosa appressa 

 pallido viridi, floribus subdecurvis, perianthii tubo ^-pollicari aurantiaco 

 purpureo tincto, sepalis sanguineo-purpureis obtuse 3-carinatis in caudas 

 2^ poll, longas filiformes recurvaa aureas abrupte constrictis, dorsali 

 porrecto ^ poll, longo triangulari-ovato, lateralibus recurvis dorsali 2-3- 

 plo longioribus ovatis dimidiato albis et sanguineis, petalis ^ poll, longis 

 carnosis spathulato-oblongis obtusis pallide roseis punctatis, labello 

 petalis patillo longiore oblongo basi hastato medio paullo constricto, disco 

 medio obtnse bicarinato apice recurvo roseo-pnnctato. 



M. Schroederiana, ITort. Sander, ex Gard. Ghron. 1890, vol. ii. p. .M. Woolv:. 

 Masdevall. p. 143, t. 56. J-mrn. Horde 1890, p. io7, fig. 71. Cogn. 

 Diet. Ic. Orchid, t. 16. 



il. fulvescena, Holfe in Gard. Ghron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 325, fig. 65, Woolw. I.e. 

 p. 135, t. 62, forma colore florum pallidiore. 



Of Masdevallia upwards of thirty species have been 

 figured in tbis Magazine ; of which, M. Wageneriana, Lindl., 

 in 1856 (t. 4921) was the first of the many now intro- 

 duced into Europe in a living state, for M. fenestrala, 

 Lindl., t. 4164 {Grifptojihoranthus atroimrpiweiia, Kolfe) is 

 not a congener. No fewer than 175 species are enumerated 

 in the *' Index Kewensis " as known up to the year 1885, 

 and to that may probably be added as many described 

 since, which would bring the total up to 200. About 

 ninety species are figured by Miss Wool ward in the Marquis 

 of Lothian's sumptuous work, " The Genus Masdevallia " ; 

 the cessation of which is greatly to be regretted, for without 

 such plates, accompanied by analyses, it is impossible to 

 study the genus satisfactorily. 



M. Schrcederiana differs much from any species previously 

 described ; it was imported by Messrs. Sander & Co. of St. 

 Albans, who inform me that it was sent by their collector, 

 Mr. Hubsch, probably in 1884, and, as far as they can 



October 1st, 1902. 



