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 
