MASDEVALLIA TRIANGULARIS Lindl. 
Maspevatiia trraxouLanris Lind], Oreh. Lind. (IS16) p. 4; Rehb. f. Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 23 
(nomen tantim); Walp. Ann. VIL CIS61). p. ISS; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 360; Gard. Chron. 1881, 
pt. ID. p. 409: 1882, pt. LL. p. 44: Orchidophile (Godetroy) vol. 1. (1881-3), p. 193; Veiteh 
Manual Oreh. pt. V. (1889), p. 65. 
Leaf 4 or 6 inches Jong, and about 1 inch broad. oblanceolate. carinate,. sharply tridenticulate, bright 
ereen, narrowing below into a slender, grooved, blackish petiole with blackish membranous sheaths at the 
hase. 
Peduncle 4 or 5 inches long, terete, slender, ascending fronia joint near the base of the petiole, bright 
creen, with a few minute black dots and one or two blackish bracts ; flowering bract 2 inch long, oblong- 
ovate, carinate, apiculate, sheathing below, dull green or blackish. 
2 inch Jong, slender, with six rounded angles. very pale green dotted with black. 
s 
Ovary 
Sepals all cohering for about 2 inch: dorsal sepal triangular-ovate for about 2 
2 inch, slightly cucullate, 
3-nerved. carinate at the back : lateral sepals triangular-ovate for about 3 inch, 3-nerved ; all ochre-vellow, 
with numerous small transverse purple spots. and terminating in slender dark purple tails, about 2 inches 
long. 
Petals scarcely J inch Jong. oblong. curved, tridenticulate, anterior margin strongly keeled, and termi- 
nating in a Jone curving angle, white. 
Lip nearly 4 inch long. oblong-pandurate or oblong-triangular, with two obscure longitudinal keels, 
grooved and fleshy at the base and united to the curved foot of the colunim by a flexible hinge, whitish, 
with small pink and crimson spots. apex narrow, much reflexed, erimson-purple, covered with stiff hairs. 
Column } inch Jong. white or very pale vellow, narrowly winged with crimson, apex slightly dentate. 
2.9 
ing upon trees on the Quebrada of Murmuquena, near Bailadores in the Province 
of Merida, Venezuela, at an altitude of 4.800 feet in a temperature of 68° Fahrenheit. 
It was also found near Caracas by Wagener and in Tovar by Moritz. The first living 
plants were imported in ISsl by Mr. F. Sander, of St. Albans, and the richly-coloured 
form represented in the accompanying Plate is probably a plant from his original 
importation, my first drawing of the species having been made in 1883, at Newhbattle 
Abbey. This variety appears to be rare, for the flowers of most plants now in cultivation 
are more green than yellow, only slightly spotted, and with greenish-purple tails. 
jh [eee Sales TREANGULARIS was discovered by Linden in June, 1842, crow- 
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Consul Lelunann sends the following note: 
The habitat of WW. ¢rrangularis is in the central mountains of Venezuela, from the Department of 
Carabobo to Merida, at an elevation of 1.800 to 2,300 métres (5,850 to 7,475 feet). It grows on the trunks 
of trees in damp shady woods, ina mean temperature of 14° to 18° Centigrade (about 59° to 65° Fahrenheit). 
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 ;— 
2u. petal from another specimen ;—3, lip :—sa, lip from another specimen ;—4, column ;—da, apex of 
column, a// enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leafy natural size. 
