MASDEVALLIA CUPULARIS Rchb. f. 
Maspevaiuia curuLanis Rehb. f. Beitr. Orch. Centr. Amer. (1866), p. 93; Gard. Chron. 1879, pt. L., 
p. 559; Godm. et Salvy. Biologia Centr. Amer., Bot. Hemsley, vol. ITE. (1882-1886), p. 207 ; 
Orchidophile 1888, p. 162. 
Leaf about 2 inches long, oval. coriaceous, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, narrowing below 
into a slender grooved petiole sheathed at the base, bright green. 
Peduncle, with the pedicel, a little longer than the leaves, terete, erect, slender, attenuate below, with 
two sheathing bracts, pale green ; Howering bract about } inch long, membranous, acuminate, sheathing 
below, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base, brownish-green. 
Ovary | inch long, curved, with three large and three small rounded angles, bright green. 
Sepals all cohering equally for about 4 inch, forming a cup-like tube, gibbous below, free portions 
triangular-ovate for 2 inch, 3-nerved, the principal nerves carinate without, semi-transparent, reddish- 
yellow, closely spotted with crimson, the nerves green; terminating in slender flattened greenish tails, 
tinged with red at the base, rather more than 4 inch Jong. 
Petals | inch long, oblong, apiculate, with 2 rounded angle on the anterior margin and a small keel 
near the opposite side, dull vellow spotted with red. 
Lip nearly twice as long as the petals, lobed and fleshy at the base, and united to the curved foot of 
the column by a flexible hinge, oblong-cordate, margins reflexed, vellowish, spotted and stained with red, 
with dark red longitudinal lines, the apex studded with long crimson papillw, much reflexed. 
Column 3 
and edged with crimson. 
inch long, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, foot much curved, green, tipped with white 
MAspeva LLIA CUPULARIS was discovered in August, 1857, by Hermann 
Wendland, at Desengaiio, in Costa Rica, and was again found nearly thirty years 
after, by Hubsch, in the same locality. It is still a rare plant and exists in very few 
collections, all the specimens in cultivation having probably originated from an importa- 
tion of Hiibsch’s plants by Mr. Sander, with whom it first flowered in 1887. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant in the collection of Mr. Sydney Courtauld: 
Fig. 1, petal. lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—3a, base of lip (much enlarged) ;—3b, reflexed apex of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; 
all enlarged ; 5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
