MASDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA Rchb. f. 
Maspevarira Verrenmana Rebb. f. Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 814, and p. 1338 ; 1871, p. 1421, fig. 310a ; 
1879, pt. IL, p. 308, fig. 49x, w; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409, fig. A; 1883, pt. I., p. 662 (var. biflora 
Rchb.f.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 5739 (1868) ; Ilustr. Hort. vol. XV. (1868), p. 107; Flore des Serres t. 1803 
(1868) ; Floral Mag. vol. IX. (1870), t. 481 ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 361, Florist and Pomol. 1873, 
p. 169, fig. 1 of coloured Plate ; Warner, Select Orch. ser. 2 (1865-1875), t. 33 ; De Puydt, Les 
Orch. (1880), p. 289, t. 25 ; Lindenia, vol. II. (1886), p. 97, t. 95. 
Leaf 9 or 10 inches long, linear-oblong, obtusely tridenticulate, carinate, dark green, narrowing below 
into a slender grooved petiole, pale green, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 12 to 18 inches long, terete, slender, with two or three sheathing bracts, green, with small 
crimson streaks ; flowering bract about 1 inch long, 5 or 7-nerved, carinate, apiculate, sheathing, pale green. 
Ovary 4 to 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, dull green shaded with crimson. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 14 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, 
free portion triangular-ovate for 1 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail 1 or 2 inches long ; lateral 
sepals cohering for about 1} inch, free portions oblong-triangular, 5-nerved, margins reflexed, tapering into 
slender tails } or 2 inch Jong, inner surface of all brilliant orange-scarlet, more or less closely set with 
short, translucent, purple hairs ; outer surface pale yellow, nerved and shaded with scarlet. 
Petals varying slightly in different specimens, nearly } inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate or 
tridenticulate, anterior margin narrowly keeled, terminating in an angle with a mass of viscid, tasteless, 
colourless matter beneath, white, sometimes tinged with yellow at the apex. 
Lip varying in different specimens, about 4 inch long, united to the curved foot of the column by a 
tlexible hinge, tleshy at the base, linear-oblong, margin variably reflexed, white and rose-purple, with two 
longitudinal, dark purple keels, apex sharply reflexed, very dark purple, with a velvety cushion of minute 
papillee. ; 
Column 4 to 2 inch Jong, apex denticulate, white, narrowly edged with crimson. 
yy ee EG VEITCHIANA was discovered near Cuzco, in 1867, by Pearce, at 
an elevation of 11,000 to 13,000 feet, and-was named and described by Professor 
Reichenbach in 1868. With Mr. H. Veitch’s permission I quote from his “ Manual of 
Orchidaceous Plants,” Part V. p. 69, the following account by his collector Davis of the 
habitat of this species : 
“ Muasdevallia Veitchiana occurs above the timber line, at the altitude above stated ; 
the plants are found in the crevices and hollows of the rocks with but little soil about 
their roots, but sometimes where a small quantity of decaying vegetable matter has 
accumulated ; in this case the plants are more robust, and when partially shaded by 
