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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Masdevallia— continued. 
M. N. (Nycterina). f. pale yellow, finely blotched with 
reddish-brown, and covered with minute hairs; triangular in 
shape. h. 8in. Columbia, 1873. A pretty species for growing 
in a basket; it was first sent out by Linden as M. Chimera, 
to which, however, it is much inferior. (F. M. n. s. 150; 
G. C. n. s., xvi. 337.) : 
tha (thick-anthered). H. yellowish-ochre, or green 
lilac-brownish, with dark nerves on the upper sepals, and fainter 
ones on the lateral sepals; upper sepals triangular, with a long, 
thick tail; lateral ones deeply connate, with a short, thick tail. 
Columbia, 1884. This species somewhat bles M. Gargant 
M. (thick-tailed). jl. yellow, small, with numerous 
brownish-red spots, disposed in many-flowered racemes. Northern 
Peru, 1874. 
Parlatoreana (Parlatore’s). fl. salmon-colour outside, finest 
scarlet, with amethyst warts, inside; lip oblong, with obscure 
lateral blunt lobes, white, with a very dark violet spot at the top. 
Peru, 1879. Allied to M. Barlewana. 
M. Peristeria (dove). f. Ne with very strong green 
G N. 4159) lip amethyst- coloured. A. bin. Columbia, 1875. 
M. picturata (vatiegatod), Jl, sepals whitish, oblong, quite free, 
with green nerves and tails, and spotted with blackish-purple, the 
lateral ones orange at the base Ar one-flowered. R. 2in. 
to Zin. Columbia, 1882. A small but pretty species. 
M. platyglossa (broad-tongued). light yellowish, small; tails 
short ; lip broad, full of acute main tae ton. 1883. 
M. polysticta (many-dotted).* AH. white, beautifully spotted with 
dark crimson; scape six to eight flowered. A. Gin. Peru, 1874. 
One of the most attractive of the small-flowering species. (G. C. 
n. s., iii. 657.) M. crassicaudata is a variety with short, stout tails. 
e A synonym of M. 
M. ASR. on gag (many-dotted), of Hooker. 
M. 
porcelliceps (pig-snout). ellowis ed with 
brown; petals white; lip sa AB ‘with rete * 
1885. A small but pretty species. 
M. psittacina (parrot-like). 
Columbia, 1818. “is 
H. dull-coloured, small, solitary. 
(cushioned). olive-green, with lish tails 
and blotches; remarkable 158 the two cushions an ae lower 
connate sepals. 1880. 
radiosa (radiating). A., sepals light ochre-coloured on the 
; the larger inner part looks blackish-purple, 
d with blackish warts on a i 
ground; whitish, with a brown blotch at the base; lip 
white, with the upper surface of the radiating di 
reddish, and with a few fringes at the black apex. 
M. Reichenbachiana (Reichenbach’s).* fl. 2in. long; the funnel- 
shaped tube and slender tails whitish-yellow, with back part 
blood-red. Z. spathulate, narrowed towards the base, tridentate 
at apex. Costa Rica, 1875. aurantiaca is a fine variet: „ With 
rich orange lateral sepals. 25 
M. Roezlii (Roezl’s).* A., se blackish india-purple, with darker 
warts, and having a few short Heiss parpi hairs on the edges ; 
petals light mauve, with some dark-eyed blotches ; uP also t 
mauve. Columbia, 1880. A handsome plant. (R. X. O. ii. ) 
M. rosea (rosy). rosy-purple, about 2in. long, solitary. Co- 
Immbia, 1880. A Es Species, (G. C. n. s., xiii. 600) 
. l. spathulate-elliptic, 6in. to 12in. long. 
1884. A large and rather showy species. (B. M. 6740; G. C. n. s., 
xix. Fig. 80.) 
M. severa (severe). fl. port-wine-brown or maroon, transversely 
with yellow ; the asperities ending in short bristles. 
Columbia, 1875. This plant is allied 
Chimera, M. Roezlii, and M. Shuttleworthii. 
ll; sepal ish, with pellucid bars. J. linear-lanceo- 
Tate. ‘New Grenada, 1878. 7 0 T. 
J, tube rich scarlet, with a violet 
With abrupt tails; petals white ; lip 
and a dark violet knob at the apex 
al species, somewhat resembling M. 
ents 
Columbia, 
Masdevallia - continued. 
M. swertizefolia (Swertia-leaved). I. variously-coloured ; at first 
ochre, with brown spots; afterwards purple, with the excep- 
tion of the inner sides of the lateral sepals and their tails, 
which are yellow; peduncles one or several-flowered. “. re- 
sembling those of Swertia perennis. New Grenada, 1880, A 
curious plant. 
M. torta (twisted). fl. light ochre, dotted and striped with purple, 
broad-cupped ; tails yellow inside, the lateral ones twisted. 
J. cuneate-ligulate, acute, bidentate, on long petioles. 1883. 
FIG. 521, LEAVES AND FLOWERS OF Mas DEVALLIA TOVARENSIS. 
tovarensis (Tovar).* fl. pure white, usually in pairs on 4 
peduncle which springs from the base of, and is a little longer 
than, the leaves, Autumn and winter. I. somewhat spathulate, 
coriaceous, 3 erect, about bin. high. Tovar, Columbia, 
1865. See Fig. 521. (B. M. 5505.) ; 
, triangularis (three-angled). ., sepals expanding widely, 
light ochre-colour, with innumerable 5 elegant, brownish- 
wre ame: petals small, white a lip r ombic, white, apotted 
a with purple spots; its opposite part shows 
triangular side laciniæ and a cuneate-oblong, fringed, small, 
blackish-purple middle lacinia: these latter-mentioned parts 
are reflexed in a very elegant manner. Winter. l. cuneate- 
oblong. Venezuela, 1842. 
triaristella (three-bristled).* f. brown and yellow; lower 
sepals connate into a boat-shaped lip, with a long bristle on each 
> Upper sepal also ending in a bristle, 2in. from end of upper 
