PL. CXCVI 



MASDEVALLIA AMABILIS, 



ETYMOLOGY and GENERIC CHARACTER : see III. ff c 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER : folia obovato oblonga obtusa 

 tereti canaliculato basi vagina pellucida truncata i 



viore; calycis infundibuliformis tubus e basi ampliatui 

 subtus albido-roseus, rubro-lineatus ; limbi trilobi (extus pallidi, intu 

 3 vivide purpureis) lobus superior late triangulus in appendice' fiKformi 

 oblique ovati externe decurvati usque ad medium connati dein liberi in cauda 

 dicem superiorem breviores product!; e petalis 3 in tube latentibus 2 UOeraUa 

 violacea marginibus inacqualibus , unus teres, alter alatus gladiatus. ban lata (rid. 

 longum apicelinguiformi apieulato marginibusque atroviolaceis ; gy s 

 utrinque marginatum, ala cucullata brevi hyalina apice auctum. 



In Peruvia septentrionali legit cl. Roezl, 1872. Ad viv. flor. desc. in hort Li 

 Masdevallia amabilis (Rchb. f. Bonpl. II, 116), var. lineata. Lind 



REICHB. FIL. var. LINEATA, 



ORGHIDEAE. 



■I ^der plate CI 

 iarginata 12 cent 

 ■ duncitlus uniilor 

 supra medium 



A native of the high plateaus of Peru, originally discovered 

 by Warscewicz, and subsequently, about two years since, 

 by Roezl , who introduced living plants into Europe of the 

 variety with striped flowers of which we here give a portrait. 

 Its determination was by no means easy and satisfactory, 

 and we had some doubts of its identity with the M. amabilis 

 of Eeichenbach and Warscewicz. Independently of slight 

 discrepancies in the size of the organs of vegetation , which 

 are of course subject to considerable variation, we could 

 not make the plant which recently flowered at Mr. Linden's 

 agree in all particulars with the description published in i 

 the Bonplandia and in Walpers Annates. 



In the first place the perianth-tube of our plant increases 

 m size from the base , and not from the middle only , and 

 it is not half the length of the sepals ; the flowers are far more 

 than a third the size of M. rosea , Lindl. ; the lateral sepals 

 are not twice as broad as the upper one; the sepals are 

 not waved, but merely notched and ligulate at the summit ; 

 the cucullate appendage of the androclinium is entire and 

 not toothed; finally, the vague reference to the colour 

 (pulchre purpurea) by D 1 ' Reichenbach would lead us to 

 suppose that he had only dried specimens under examina- 

 tion, if the name of Warscewicz were not associated with 



his, and who says the flowers u 

 Now, nothing is less aniforn 

 flowers of our plant. The perian 

 and white tinged with pink be 

 surface of the sepals, whilsl t 

 an elegant blending of several t 

 a bright pink, blended with o 

 the whole surface Bparkling witl 

 light plays upon it. The inner I 

 is carmine lake, each lobe bei] 

 by three bright purple lines , wh 

 nerves of a melastomaceous leaf 

 These three brilliant furrows 

 do not consider them of sufncie 

 new species , and therefore we r 

 bilis, of which it may be regai 

 for the present. 



We may observe here that the 

 carmine and orange, constitutes 

 link of the colours of M. Linda 

 of the many delights afforded us 

 which is ever increasing in favo 

 often have to speak again. 



