MASDEVALLIA WENDLANDIANA Rehb. f. 
Maspevariia Wespiaxpiaxa Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. 1, p. 174 5 1888, pt. I., p. 563 ; 1889, 
pt. TL. p. oT: Orchidophile (Godetroy) ISSS, p. 259; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 72. 
Leaf about 2 inches long, linear, coriaceous, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a 
erooved petiole sheathed at the base. 
Pedunele a little longer than the leaves, very slender, terete, with two sheathing bracts, very pale 
ereen, ascending from within the sheath at the base of the petiole ; flowering bract 4 inch long, mem- 
branous. apiculate, sheathing below, pale brownish-green. 
Ovary nearly } inch long, with six grooves, pale green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the Jateral sepals for about | inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous 
below, tree portion oblong-triangular, 3-nerved, narrowing into a flattened tail nearly 3 inch long ; lateral 
sepals cohering for about 4 inch. free portion triangular, very minute, 3-nerved, tapering into flattened 
tails nearly | inch long, white, streaked below with rose-purple, tails tipped with pale yellow. 
Petals a little more than } inch long, oblong, apiculate, slightly thickened and angled on the anterior 
margin, white. 
Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong, grooved, united to the foot of the column by a flexible 
hinge. with two longimdinal keels near the centre, dull white, semi-transparent, with minute crimson spots, 
apex vellow spotted with crimson. 
Column not quite so Jong as the petals, white, margined with crimson, apex denticulate, foot crimson. 
M ASDEVALLIA WENDLANDIANA was imported by Mr. F. Sander from Fron- 
tino, in Antioquia, and was first described by Professor Reichenbach in 1887. 
I have no information as to the elevation or temperature of its habitat, but in cultivation 
it is found to require greater heat than most Masdevallias, with an equal amount of 
moisture. It appears to be very nearly allied to JL. pumila, M. tubulosa, and M. minuta, 
and may ultimately prove to be identical with at least one of these species. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn trom a plant at Newhbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3, lip ;—4, column ;— 
diay apex of column ;—A, apex and section of leaf, a// enlarged, 
