MASDEVALLIA CAUDATA Lindl. 
Lindl. Gen. et spec. Orch. (1853). p. 198 5 Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Rehb. i 
: Karsten Flor. Colomb. (1862-1869), 
Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. 1, p. 170: 
VIASDEVALLIA CAUDATA 
Bonplandia TP. (1854), p. 28 5 Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 289 
vol TL. p. 103. t. CLUDE: Morren Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 395 ; 
ISSisipt. UL. p. 230e:) Meiteh Manual Orch, pt. V. (1889). p. 28. 
VM. Shutteworthii Rel. tf. Gard. Chron, 1874, pt. Te p. 170: TSS], pt. i tes p. £09 ; 1884, pt. I p- 741, 
in eroup tig. 141; Bot. May. t. 6372 (1878); Gartentlora (Regel) XXVII. (1878), p. 26; XXXIX. 
(IS90), p. 457. pl. 1329; Hlustr. Hort. S81, p. 171, t. 435; Orch. Album (Warn. et Will.) vol. I. 
(ISS2).t. 3: Reichenbachia vol. 1. (1887), p. 29. pl. 18: Lindenia vol. IV. (1888), p. 80, pl. 
CLNXNIIL.: Veiteh Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889). p. 28. 
Tur. vanthocorys Reb. tf. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. I. p. 866; Orchidophile (Godefroy ) vol. I. (1881-3), 
p. 2892 Reiehenbachia vol. 1. (i887). p. 29, ph 15; Veitch Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889), p. 29. 
Leat door 5 inches long and about 1 inch wide, oblanceolate, tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing 
helow into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, pale ereen, with black spots. 
Pedunele. including pedicel. about 4 inches long, with two bracts, terete. slender, ascending from the 
base of the petiole, pale greens flowering bract 4 inch long, ovate. apiculate. sheathing, with a small 
rudimentary bud within at the base. pale dull green. 
Ovary about 2 inch Jone. with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, dull white. 
Sepals cohering for about } inch, dorsal sepal ovate, cucullate, clear golden vellow, with numerous 
minute crimson spots. and five deep crimson nerves, the lateral nerves sometimes bifurcating ; lateral 
sepals cibbous below. ovate-triangular for nearly 1 inch, 5-nerved, rose-coloured, closely covered with 
sinall transverse crimson spots: all the sepals terminating in slender tails 2 or 3 inches long, orange- 
\ ellow. greenish at the back. 
Petds about {inch Jong. linear-oblong, curved, anterior margin bicarinate, terminating in a curved 
auricle. apex tridentate, white. 
Lip jy oinch long, oblonz-pandarate. with two obscure longitudinal keels, base fleshy, grooved. with 
two rounded lobes beneath, whitish, with numerous rose-eoloured spots, apex much reflexed, rose-pink, 
with darker spots. 
Column a tittle longer than the petals, broadly winged. white, with deep crimson apex, sometimes 
wholly crimson. wings edeed and spotted with crimson, apex dentate. 
ISCOVERED by Mons. Justin Goudot, a French botanist employed by the Goyern- 
ment of Colombia to found various scientific establishments at Bogota. His 
explorations, between the years 1823 and 1842. extended from Venezuela to Bogota, 
amon the Cordilleras in all directions, and across the fertile valleys of the Magdalena 
and the Cauca. Specimens of Wo candata collected by him near San Fortunato, were 
named and described in 1833 by Dr. Lindley, who also, in 1846, described specimens 
found by Linden, growing upon trees on Mount Quindiu, at. the height of 10,000 feet, 
between Los Voleancitos and Paramillo. The first drawing of this species is an excellent 
Explanation of Plate. drawn trom a plant at Newbattle \bbev : 
Pie. 1. petal. dip. and column, in natural position ;—Ta. section of ovary :—2. petal, inner side :— 
‘: by 2 oa. tniderside of lip :—4. column :—da. apex of column: al! enlarged ;—5, apex and section of 
leat, watural size: --6, var. vamthocorys Vehb. t.. natural size. 
