MASDEVALLIA SCHLIMIT Lind. 
Masprvatiia Scuumm Lind. MSS. Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Bonplandia II. (1854), pp. 23 and 
283; Walp. Am. VI. (1861), p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360; Gard. Chron. 1883, 
pt. I., p. 532, fig. 80; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 662; Bot. Mag. t. 6740 (1884) ; Die 
Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. (Engler und Prantl) pt. 23 (1888), p. 137, fig. 135; Veitch Manual Orch. 
pt. V. (1889), p. 61. 
Var. Sceptrum=Masdevallia Sceptrum Rehb. f. Bonplandia IL. (1854), p. 283 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), 
p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360. 
Var. polyantha=Masdevallia polyantha Lindl. Orch, Lind. (1846), p. 6; Bonplandia I. (1854), p. 283 ; 
III. (1855), p. 69 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193; Belg. Hort. XXII. (1873), p. 360. 
Leaf 10 or 12 inches long, obovate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, very bright green, the principal 
nerves paler, marrowing below into a very pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 14 or 15 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, terete, ascending from within a 
sheath at the hase of the petiole, racemose, producing six or eight flowers, each on an erect pedicel 1 or 
14 inch long, at intervals of 3 or 4 inch, pale green dotted with dull red; flowering bracts about 4 inch 
Jong, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish. 
Ovary 4 inch Jong, triangular, with six deep crooves, slightly winged, green. 
Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion trian- 
gular for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, nerves carinate without, bright yellow, with minute reddish-brown spots, 
terminating in a slender vellow tail about 2 inches long ; lateral sepals cohering for 3 inch, gibbous at the 
base, 3-nerved, obovate for 3 inch, yellow, closely spotted with velvety, dull crimson spots, over which is 
a purplish lustre, tapering into slender vellow tails 1} inch long. 
Petals } inch long, linear-oblong, acutely angled on both margins, with a fleshy keel on the anterior 
margin, white, apex very pale vellow. 
Lip nearly 4 inch long, oblong, curved, with two curved keels on the anterior portion, base fleshy, 
grooved. whitish, mottled with transverse crimson spots, apex much reflexed, yellow spotted with crimson. 
Column above } inch long, narrowly winged, apex slightly crenate, white edged with crimson. 
(gee SCHLIMII was discovered in 1843 by Louis Schlim, growing on 
ran trees at Valle, near Merida in Venezuela, at an elevation of 7,500 feet, and was 
first described by Dr. Lindley in 1846, under the name proposed for it by Linden in 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal ;—3, lip ;—4, 
column :—4da, apex of column ; al/ enlarged ;—S, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
