MASDEVALLIA DEMISSA Rchb. f. 
MASDEVALLIA DEMISsSA Rehb. f. Gard, Chron. 1887, pt. IL, p. 9 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1888, p. 168 ; 
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 39. 
Leaf 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-spathulate, carinate at the back, leathery, apex tridenticulate, bright 
green. narrowing below into a pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncele, including pedicel, about 2 inches long, terete, ascending from within the sheath at the base 
of the petiole, with two sheathing bracts, pale green ; flowering bract about 3 inch long, oblong-ovate, 
apiculate, sheathing below, pale brownish green. 
Ovary } inch long, with six grooves, shining green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 3 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, free 
portion very short, triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tail about 1 inch long, bright yellow shaded 
with chestnut-brown ; lateral sepals cohering for # inch, triangular-ovate. 3-nerved, terminating in slender 
recurved tails nearly 3 inch long, bright chestnut-brown with orange veins, all the tails orange, greenish 
at the back. 
Petals about 4 inch Jong, oblong, with a rounded angle on the anterior margin, thick and fleshy, dull 
crimson-purple, paler at the margin. 
Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong-pandurate, with two longitudinal angled keels, hase thick, 
crooved, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, apex recurved, dull crimson-brown, 
the keels paler. 
Column nearly as long as the petals, curved, very narrowly winged, white, foot crimson, apex very 
minutely crenate, 
MPORTED from the mountains of Costa Rica by Messrs. Shuttleworth and Carder, 
of Clapham, about the year 1886, with no record of its exact habitat. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3. lip ;—4. column ;—4a, apex of column ;_ all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
