SECTION If 
mame 
COCCINEAE Rehb. f. 
MVE plants included in this Section are chiefly remarkable for the brilliant colouring 
of the flowers, the shortness of the lateral tails, and for long slender stems bearing 
solitary flowers high above the leaves. The petals of all are very much alike in shape, 
a curious mass of white viscid matter, the use of 
which is not known, All the species hitherto discovered are in cultivation, and are 
highly prized for the sake of their splendid and variable colouring. 
and have beneath the marginal angle 
G species figured : 
Masdevallia amabilis Rehb. f 
Barkeana Rehb. f 
coccinea Lind. (=.W. Lindeni, André, et M. Haryana Rehb. 1.) 
Davisii Rehb. f. 
militaris Rehb. f. (=. iguea Rehb. 7.) 
Veitehiana Rehb. f. 
