MASDEVALLIA EPHIpplum. 
the State of Cauca, as far south as the volcano of Sotara, near Popayan. In the vicinity 
of Popayan it attains the largest proportions, both in masses of root and in the size of 
the flowers. Masses measuring 40 or 50 centimétres (16 or 20 inches) across are 
frequently met with. About three years ago (1886) I also found the variety acrochordonia 
on the eastern declivities of the Eastern Andes of Cuenca, in Ecuador. The plants 
from that locality are much smaller, and the flowers only about half the size of those of 
M. Ephippinn in Colombia. 
M. Ephippiion is never found growing in great abundance over a large area. It 
invariably occupies small localities—perhaps a small portion of a mountain slope—and 
will not be met with again for a great distance. 
The annual mean temperature ranges between 15° and 18° Centigrade (59° and 
64°°4 Fahrenheit), according to the region. 
F. C. Lenmann. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey = 2 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
