MasprvaLLiA Hourreana. 
They differ slightly from the type in the size and colouring of the flowers, and are no 
longer considered to be specifically distinet. 
I am informed by Consul Lehmann that he has found this species near El Retiro, 
and also in damp woods between Itagni and Eliconia, in Antioquia, at an elevation of 
1,800 to 2,300 metres (5,850 to 7,475 feet). In a wild state it flowers twice in the year, 
during April and May, and again in October and November. It grows among copse or 
brush-wood, generally on the ground, but sometimes also on the mossy trunks of trees, 
the long narrow leaves forming very dense masses, from among which the flowers appear 
in great abundance, like a thick fringe upon the outer edge of the plants, a character- 
istic retained in cultivation and well shown in the accompanying wood-cut. 
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OP RETRO WR ETS te EEN st 
SV PF TL Ee RO RTS EE RIO IEE ewer 
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