MASDEVALLIA, 



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tinguishable therefrom. Like its allies it has tufts of oblong- 

 lanceolate obtuse or emarginate leaves, tapered below, and 

 solitary flowers on scapes taller than the leaves, of a rich 

 magenta- purple, the short curved tube and throat being white. 

 The flowers of this species are not so large as those of some 

 forms of the allied M. Harryana, but their distinct and briUiant 

 colour renders the plant a very conspicuous object in a col- 

 lection or group. The plant figured under this name in the 

 Botanical Magazine is M. Harryana. — Neic Grenada. 



Fia.—Illust. Horf., 3 ser., t. 42 ; Jennings, Orch., 1. 17; Floral Mag., 2 ser., 

 t. 28; Id., t. 410, fig. 1 ; Gard. Chron.', N.S. i., 385, fig. 85; Id., xvi. 336, 

 fig. 62 ; Florist and Pom., 1873, 169, with tab. 



M. macrura, Rchh. f. — A very rare and stately-growing 

 species, producing tufts of unusually large stout coriaceous 

 bluntly oblong glossy leaves, from two to three inches in 

 breadth, the scapes bearing solitary flowers, which have a 

 broad short perianth divided into an upper and lower lip ; the 

 former corresponding with the dorsal sepal has a triangular 

 base extending into a stout tail, while the lower lip formed of 

 the lateral sepals is somewhat larger, but parted so as to form 

 two tails ; the broader parts of the sepals are light reddish 

 brown, marked with dark purple-brown streaks and spots, 

 the tails, which are from four to six inches in length, being 

 yellow. The principal nerves of the interior of the flowers 

 are quite prominent, and covered with numerous blunt 

 warts. — 'New Grenada. 



'Fig.— Gard. Chron., N.S., vii. 12, fig. 2 ; Id., xvi. 336, fig. 65. 



M. maculata, Elotzsch and Karst. — A remarkable species 

 of this very remarkable genus, of stoutish habit, producing 

 tufts of oblong spathulate leaves, narrowed to the base, and 

 solitary horizontal flowers, which have a cylindrical tube, of 

 which the upper side is yellow, the subulate dorsal sepal 

 being of the same colour, and fully tliree inches long, while 

 the lower side of the tube is rich purple-brown, which colour 

 is continued on the two lanceolate lateral sepals, the subulate 

 tails of which are as long as that of the dorsal sepal, and 

 green for fully two-thirds of their length. — Caracas, 



Fig.— Flore des Serres, t. 2150. 



M. militaris, Rchh. f. and Warsc. — As there seems to be 

 some confusion respecting this species, we feel we cannot do 

 better than give Professor Reichenbach's description, taken 

 from the Gardeners' Chronicle (n.s., xiii. 742) : " It was 



