Masdevallia 



themselves, they are dreadful. But that is easily 

 prevented if the gardener keep watch from the 

 first. 



Amabilis. Pretty and free-flowering, but small. 

 Orange or rose, side sepals spotted with carmine. 

 Summer. Peru. 1874. 5s. 



Arminii (Mr. Armin Wagener). - Small, rosy- 

 purple. Spring. New Granada. 1854. Gem. 

 10s. Qd. 



Backhousiana. Synonym for Cliimcera. 



Bella. Very effective and very free- flowering. 

 Sepals and petals yellowish, thickly speckled with 

 red-brown. Lip white. The red tails are four 

 inches long, the upper one bent back and aside, 

 the two lower crossed. It flowers downwards, and 

 I have seen a basket so densely encircled by 

 blooms, each two inches broad, that they looked 

 like a turban round it. Autumn and winter. New 

 Granada. 1878. Basket warm end. 5s. 



Benedidi (Benedict Koezl, the great collector). 

 A synonym for Houtteana, which see. Warm end 

 basket. 



Carderi (Mr. Carder, collector). Small, but very 

 pretty, white, with brown spots ; yellow tails. 

 Summer. New Granada. 1883. Basket warm 

 end. 31s. Qd. 



Caudata. Synonym for Shuttleworthi. 



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