MASDEVALLIA COCCINEA Lind. 
MAspEVALLIA coccinea Lind. Mss. ; Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Rchb. f. Bonplandia II. (1854), 
pp- 115 and 283 ; Xen. Orch. I. (1858), p- 197, t- 74; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 192 ; Gard. 
Chron. 1868, p. 75, with fig. ; 1880, pt. I., p. $90 ; 1881, pt. II., p. 236, fig 49; 1884, pt.I., p. 736, 
fig. 138; 1889, pt. IL., p. 239; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356 ; Garden 1878, pt. I., p. 102; Floral Mag. 
1880, pl. 410, no. 2; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 33. 
M. Lindeni André, Mlustr. Hort. XVIL. (1870), p. 226, pl. XLU.; XXI. (1874), p.101; Bot. Mag. t. 5990 
(1872); Floral Mag. 1872, pl. 28; 1880, pl. 410, no. 1; Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 169, with col. 
fic.; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 358 ; Gard. Chron. 1874, pt. I., p. 385, fig. 85; 1881, pt. IL, p. 336, fig. 
62; 1884, pt. I. pp. 736 and 741 ; Orchids, Jennings, pl. XVII. (1875); Garden 1876, pt. IL., 
p. 240; 1878, pt. L., p. 102 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881), p. 407 ; Lindenia I. (1885), 
p. 73, pl. XXXIV. ; var. grandiflora. 
M. Lindeni var. Harryana André Ilustr. Hort. XX. (1873), p. 167, pl. CXLII. 
M. Harryana Reh). f. Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1421 ; 1879, pt. I., p. 716, var. leta Rehb. f.; 1881, pt. IL., 
p. 305 ; 1884, pt. L, pp. 114 and 741, in group fig. 141; Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 169, with col. 
fig. ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 353, pl. XXI.; Flores des Serres XXI. (1875), p. 155, t. 2250; Garden 
1878, pt. L, p. 102 ; Floral Mag. 1880, pl. 410, no. 3; Oreh. Album (Warn. et Will.) I. (1882), 
pl. 24, var. cerulescens ; IIL. (1884), pl. 105, var. atrosanguinea ; pl. 110, var. miniata; V. 
(1886), pl. 224, var. Armeniaca ; VIII. (1889), pl. 344, var. decora ; Reichenbachia ser. 2, vol. I. 
t. 26 (1891), var. splendens. 
Leaf § or 9 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, dark green, narrowing below into a 
slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 12 or 14 inches long, terete, slender, ascending from a joint near the base of the petiole, 
with two or three sheathing bracts, dull green, tinged with crimson or red-brown ; tiowering bract nearly 
1 inch long, oblong-ovate, sheathing below, carinate, apiculate, dull pale green, with a minute rudimentary 
bud within at the base. 
Ovary 3 inch long, curved, with six rounded angles, shining, brownish-green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, forming a curved narrow tube, 
white at the base, free portion triangular-ovate for 3 inch, 3-nerved, narrowing into a slender recurved 
tail, 14 or 2 inches long, pale mauve, tail darker, crimson towards the apex ; lateral sepals cohering for 
about | inch, free portions oblong-ovate for 14 inch, 5-nerved, terminating in short blunt tails, brilliant 
magenta-mauve, with rosy crimson nerves, tails darker. 
Petals 2 inch long, linear-oblong, keeled and angled on the anterior margin, pure white, faintly nerved 
with rose. 
Lip 2 inch long, oblong-pandurate, with two longitudinal keels, thickened and grooved at the base, 
margin recurved, white, tinged with rose-pink, apex sharply recurved, rose-crimson, sometimes tinged 
with yellow. 
Column about } inch long, very narrowly winged, apex minutely denticulate, white, sometimes winged 
and tipped with rose-crimson. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—3a, apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ;—5, column from another specimen ; a// 
enlarged ;—G, apex and section of leaf ;—7, var. Harryana ; natural size. 
