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purple, the filiform tails, 'which are about an inch long, being 

 olivaceous spotted with purple. In form the flowers have a 

 short tube, an ovate cymbiform dorsal sepal, and narrower 

 obliquely oblong lateral sepals, all of which are ciliolate at 

 the edge. — Northern Peru. 



Fie. — Bot. Mag., t. 6368 (not t. 6258, which is M. melanopus) ; TUmsI. 

 Eort., 3 ser., t. 198 ; Gartenflora, t. 869 ; Rev. Hort., 1880, 250^ with tab. ; 

 Gard, Chron., N.s,, iii. 667, tig. 134. 



M. radiosa, Bchh. /. — A pretty little species, with flowers 

 in the way of those of M. Cliimm-a, but only about two-fifths 

 of their size. The inner surface of the flower is blackish 

 purple, being densely covered with blackish warts on a purple 

 ground, and the tails are almost black ; the lip is white. It 

 was discovered by Mr. Wallis. — New Grenada : Frontina. 



M. ReiclienhachiaiLa, Endres. — A distinct and free-flowering 

 species, which when discovered by the late Mr. Endres, was 

 named by him after his friend Professor Reichenbach. The 

 plant is similar in the outline of its flowers to M. coriacea. It 

 is of densely tufted habit, with narrowly spathulate carinate 

 leaves, and an angular three-flowered scape, which somewhat 

 exceeds the leaves. The flowers are thin in texture, two 

 inches long, and have a funnel-shaped tube very narrow at 

 the base, the dorsal sepal triangular caudate, the lateral 

 sepals elongate triangular, with short slender tails ; they are 

 yellowish white with a blood-red blotch on the posterior part 

 in the typical form, in other varieties with radiating blood- 

 red lines, or a nearly black blotch. — Costa Rica. 



M. Eoezlii, Bchh. f. — An interesting species, whose flowers 

 resemble those of M. ChimcBra both in their triangular outline 

 and their dark purplish brown colour. The leaves are oblong 

 ligulate. The flowers are produced singly on the scape, 

 which has the peculiarity, as is usual in the group [jide 

 Echb.), of developing blossoms in succession, though only 

 after a considerable interval ; the perianth is spread out 

 nearly flat, the sepals, which are only connate at the very 

 base, having an oblong limb extended at the apex into an 

 entire linear-filiform tail about two inches long ; the small 

 ligulate bilobed petals and broadly saccate lip occupy the 

 centre, the latter being entire at the edge with the front 

 inflexed, and having down the centre three longitudinal nerves 

 and several transverse nervilles on each side. The colour of 

 the flower is a fine deep blackish purple, with still darker warts 



