SECTION IIL. 
CORIACEZ Rchb. f. 
Mest of the plants in this Section have rigid, leathery (coriaceous) leaves, and thick 
succulent flowers, borne erect upon strong stalks, or pushed out laterally from 
the base of the leaf-stem. The flowers of nearly all the species have two well-developed 
nectaries at the base of the lip, containing, in three or four instances, a considerable 
quantity of honey. In this Section are included the most fragrant and the most 
malodorous of the Genus. 
18 species as 
Masdevallia campyloglossa Rehb. f. 
civilis Rehb. f. (= uiloba Regel, et M. rufolutea Lindl.) 
coriacea Lindl. (=J¥. Bruchmiilleri Lind.) 
cupularis Rehb. f. 
elephanticeps Rehb. f. (=M. Gargantua Rehb. f.) 
fractiflexa Lehm. MS. (not in cultivation.) 
fragrans, sp. NOV. 
Laucheana Rehb. f. 
leontoglossa Rehb. f. 
Mooreana Rehb. f. (=AL. elephanticeps rar. pachysepala Rehb. f- 
et M. sororcula Rehb. f.) 
Ortgiesiana hort. 
pachyantha Rehb. f. 
Peristeria Rehb. f. 
platyglossa Rehb. f. 
porcelliceps Rehb. f. 
striatella Rehb. f. 
torta Rchb. f. 
velifera Rehb. f. 
Yauperyensis Rodrig. (not in cultivation.) 
Not in cultivation : 
M. afjinis Lindl. Orch, Lind. (1846), p. 5. 
angiulata Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 15. 
Bonplandii Rchb. Bonplandia IIT, (1855), p. 69. 
Cayennensis Rehb. f. Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. XXIII. (1854 ), p. 248. 
chloracra Rehb. f. Flora (Singer ) 1886, p. 560. 
ellipes Rehb. f. Linnea XLT. (1877), p. 11. 
ensata Rehb. f. Linnea XXIT. (1849), p. 818. 
fractiflexa Lehim. (see Plate /. 
heterotepala Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 561. 
levis Lindl. Ann. Nat. Hist. (1845), p. 257. 
lepida Rehb. f: Bonplandia ITT. (1855), p. 69. 
macroglossa Rehb. f. Otia, Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 16. 
pardina Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb, (1878), p. 15. 
Yauaperyensis Rodrig. (see Plate.) 
