MASDEVALLIA CIVILIS Rchb. f. 
MASpEVALLIA civitis Rehb. f. Bonplandia TI. (1854), p. 115; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 191; Bot. 
Mag. t. 5476 (1864); Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 236; Veitch 
Manual Orch., pt. V. (1889), p. 33. 
M. equiloba Regel, Gartenfl. IX. (1860), p. §2, t. 285; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 353 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, 
pt. IL, p. 236; Orchidophile (Godefroy), 1881, p. 83. 
M. rufolutea Lindl. Wrswez. Cat. 1853 ; Gard. Chron, 1853, pp. 192 and 328. 
Leaf 8 or 9 inches Jong, 3 to 4 inch wide, linear, recurved, very thick and fleshy, apex obtusely triden- 
ticulate, dull green, narrowing below into a very thick, deeply-grooved, pale green petiole, with large 
membranous sheaths at the base. 
Peduncle, including pedicel, about 3 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, erect, terete, 
attenuate towards the base, bright pink below, greenish above, with numerous small crimson spots ; 
flowering bract 4 inch long, 3-nerved, closely sheathing below, with a rudimentary bud within at the base, 
pale green or purplish. 
Ovary about } inch Jong, with six rounded angles, shining, pale green spotted with crimson. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about J inch, forming a wide tube ; lateral sepals 
cohering for about 1 inch, gibbous beneath ; all sepals ovate-triangular for nearly 4 inch, 3-nerved, fleshy, 
greenish-yellow spotted with dark crimson-brown, inner surface rough with minute silver-white hairs, 
outer surface shining, crimson near the base, nerves dotted with minute brown spots ; each sepal termin- 
ating in a slender flattened tail, orange-vellow in front, dark brown or spotted at the back. 
Petals about } inch Jong, slightly curved, linear at the base, very thick and fleshy, margins angled 
and much thickened, white. very shining, with a broad central streak of crimson, base rich crimson, apex 
acute, greenish, 
Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong, fleshy, base deeply grooved in the centre, with a hollow 
nectary on cach side, anterior portion with one central and two lateral keels, all widening and terminating 
ina rounded warty line, dull grevish-white, with numerous dark crimson spots, apex rough with obtuse 
papilla. blackish crimson, 
Column 2 inch Jong, very thick, winged, pale green outside, brilliant crimson within, foot dark rich 
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crimson. 
NV ASDEVALLIA CIVILIS was discovered by Warscewicz upon the eastern slopes of 
the Peruvian Andes, and was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1854 
A description and an uncoloured Plate are given by Regel in “Gartenflora” of 1860, 
under the name of Masderall/a wquiloba, a plant which he considers to be distinct from 
AM. civilis, and which was also collected by Warscewicz in the Andes of Peru. The very 
Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fis. 1, petals, lip, and column, in natural position ;—a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3. lip ;—3a, hase of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column; all 
enlarged ;—A, apex and section of leat, natural size, 
