MASDEVALLIA REICHENBACHIANA Endres. 
MASDEVALLIA REICHENBACHIANA Endres in Gard. Chron, 1873, pt. IL, p. 257 ; 1879, pt. I., p. 559; 1881, 
pt. IL, p. 336; 1883. pt. IL, p. 360 (var. aurantiaca Rehb. f.) ; Orchidophile (Godefroy), vol. I. 
(1881), p. 97; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 60 ; Lindenia vol. VI. (1890), p. 23, pl. CCL. 
M. Normanni hort., syn. fide Rehb. f. Gard, Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 230. 
Leaf 4 or 5 inches long, 2 or 1 inch wide, oblanceolate, carinate, tridenticulate, narrowing below into 
a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green, the two principal nerves paler. 
Peduncle 6 or 7 inches long, terete, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole, 1 to 
3-flowered, bright green ; bract about 4 inch long, sheathing below, ovate-apiculate above, bright green. 
Ovary about 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, dark brown or greenish. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 1 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion 
triangular for about 2 inch, 3-nerved, inner surface pale yellow with red nerves, outer surface rich dark red 
or claret-crimson, almost scarlet at the base, tapering into a slender recurved tail about 2 inches long, 
greenish-yellow ; lateral sepals cohering for 1} inch, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, nerves bifurcating and 
strongly carinate, inner surface pale lemon-yellow or pearly pink, tinged with red near the outer margin, 
outer surface pale yellow, crimson, and red, tails 14 inch long, slender, pale green. 
Petals } inch long, oblong-ovate, anterior margin much thickened, ivory-white. 
Lip 4 inch long, oblong-pandurate, with two short longitudinal keels, ivory-white, apex narrow, 
recurved, pale yellow. 
Column } inch long, winged, ivory-white, apex denticulate, pale yellow. 
i Eee REICHENBACHIANA was discovered in 1878 in the mountains 
of Costa Rica, by Endres, who named it in honour of Professor Reichenbach. 
Imported plants first flowered at Little Stanmore, Middlesex, in 1875, in the collection 
of the Rev. J. B. Norman, who, under the impression that the plant was a new species, 
named it MZ. Normanni. 
The flowers vary greatly in colour, the outer surface being sometimes of so dark a 
shade of red as to appear almost black, and sometimes of every shade of crimson or 
purplish-red. The inner surface of the flowers is of an extremely delicate shade of pearly 
pink, the effect of the deep colour of the outer surface seen through the semi-transparent 
tissues of the sepals. The flowers last a long time in perfection, a second and even a third 
flower expanding before the first fades. 
In the variety named awrantiaca by Professor Reichenbach, the dark red is replaced 
by rich orange. 
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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, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf ; natural size. 
