MASDEVALEIA PROGLODYTES Morr. 
Isvevatiaa Trocropyars Morr, Belg. Hort, XXVIL. (1877). p. 97. t. Vu Rehb. t. 
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feat Tor S mehes Jong. Hnear-lanceolate, carinate, margins waved, apex tridenticulate, narrowing 
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ow uted slender penole, sheathed at the base. bright green. (In wild plants the leaves are 16 inches 
Hioot long 
Podunele about S inches long. terete, slender, lateral or descending trom the base of the petiole, with 
mys bracts. dall purple: flawering braet 3 inch long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below. pale green 
eed with purple 
Orycry )) ineh dong. with six rounded angles. dull purple. 
Sopats cohering for about } inch. forming a wide campanulate tube, tree portions roundly triangular, 
Hiserous nerves, the central ones carinate on the outer surface. reddish-brown within, covered with 
temapilie. with a white space and a few crimson spots in the centre beneath the lip. outer surface 
reotmeed with green, nerved with dark red. all the sepals terminating in slender tails 1 or 14 inch 
ae iankered 
Vorals Loch Jone. tinear at the base, marcins slightly angled. clett at the apex into two lobes, 
wetyern wldel is a mass of minute blackish-purple papille, dull) vellow, with a blackish-purple 
teoovidiar spot 
Lop Joneer than the petals. erooved apd tleshy at the base. and united to the toot of the column by # 
lonee. nuterior portion sliatlow. shell-like, with one fleshy central keel and a lateral bi-lobed keel 
wh side. pale pink 
Colin shorter than the lip. stont. narrowly winged, apes denticulate, vellow. 
pea habitat of Masdecallia Troglodytes is EL Roblareito. wear Sonson, in Antioquia, 
where Consul belanani las found it at an elevation of 2400 metres (7,800 feet), 
flowering iy December Pia wild state it is not a common species. frequenting only a 
still area. and growing sparingdy in thick woods, close to the ground upon the trunks 
Of trees 
The fist caltivated plants were sent to Belgium by M. Lalinde, a resident at 
Medellin. Antioquia. and these flowered in TS76 in the collection of Mons. Oscar- 
Lamarehesat Liewe. [tis now to be seen in every collection of Masdevallias, flourishing 
in deroe qnasses of slender leaves, and producing its dull red-brown flowers in great 
proluston , 
Phe uame Troglodytes, or “eave-dweller” chosen for it by Mons. Edouard Morren, 
is as fanciful as any mame civen by Professor Reichenbach to other species of the 
Chimara section. 
Jn General characteristics 1/ Trogladytes Is closely allied to JW. /Zoutteana, and 
tay perhaps ultimately be ineluded amon the varieties of that) species. The chief 
differences are in the colouring and in the rays within the lip. but the latter feature 
does notappear to be uniform in either plant. 
innation of Plate. dimiwn from a plant at Newbarde Abbess : 
| pel lip. and column. ty osturnl 
In, section of ovary :— 2. petal, inner side .— 2a, 
4. cal i Wen oot hilien so enlarged % » apex and section of beat, 
