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linear -lanceolate acute leaves, wliich are from ten to twelve 

 inches in length by about a quarter of an inch in breadth, thin 

 in texture, carinate below, and of a light green colour. The 

 scape is about half the length of the leaves, single -flowered ; 

 the flowers about an inch across, with broad semiovate-trian- 

 gular spreading sepals of a creamy white profusely spotted 

 with blood-red, the point of each sepal being extended into a 

 terete tail-like point of the same blood-red colour as the spots, 

 and measuring from two to three inches in length. It has 

 been exhibited under the name of M. amabilis. — Venezuela, 

 elevation 8,000 feet. 



Fig,.— Flore des Serves, t. 2106. 



M. ignea, Rchh. f. — A very handsome and distinct species, 

 with tufts of elliptic obtuse leathery long-stalked leaves, 

 about six inches high, and taller graceful scapes, bearing 

 large horizontal decurved flowers, fully two inches long, 

 with a curved subcylindrical tube, the dorsal sepal subulate 

 from a broadish base, deflexed between the elliptic-oblong 

 lateral ones, the colour a bright cinnabar red inside, the 

 three nerves on each sepal marked by deeper crimson lines. 

 There are several varieties of this species, varying in size 

 and in the colour of their flowers. This plant, when well 

 grown, forms a most beautiful object, the colour being so dis- 

 tinct. We saw a splendid specimen of it, bearing over 

 forty flowers, in Baron Schroder's collection at Staines in 

 the month of January, 1884. — New Grenada. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5962; Florist and Pom., 1873, 169, witli tab. ; lllust. 

 Bort, 3 ser., t. 333; Gard. Ckron., 1872, 545, fig. 149; Id., N.S., xvi. 305, 

 fig. 57; Orchid Album, ii. t. 62 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 15. 



M. ignea aurantiaca, Williams. — A distinct variety, having 

 bright orange-coloured flowers veined with vermilion. This 

 forms a nice companion to the other forms of the type, being 

 unique in colour, — New Grenada. 



M. ignea Massangeana, Williams. — A large-flowered and 

 distinct kind, having bright orange-vermilion coloured 

 flowers, flushed with rosy purple. This variety was named 

 in honour of M. Massange, Chateau de Baillonville, Marche, 

 Belgium. — New Grenada. 



M. ignea grandiflora, Williams. — A very large and hand- 

 some variety, having circular flowers of great substance ; 

 the lateral sepals are bright vermilion lined with crimson 

 and sufi'used with purple. — New Grenada. 



