HORTUS VEITCHII 



lera of Peru, and flowered for the first time in this country in August 1874. 

 It is found in the crevices of rocks on the slopes of the mountains at an 

 immense elevation, probably not less than 10,500-12,000 ft., but within 

 a restricted area, extending a few miles only along the flanks of the 

 mountains, and within the vertical limits above mentioned. 



MASDEVALLIA GAKGANTUA, Echb.f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. vi. p. 516 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 43. 



Introduced in 1874 from the Frontino district in New Grenada through 

 Gustav Wallis. When first expanded the flower emits a strong fetid 

 odour. It is closely allied to Masdevallia elephanticeps, and by some 

 authorities considered only a form of that species. 



MASDEVALLIA IONOCHAEIS, Echb.f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1875, vol. iv. p. 388 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6262 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. 



pt. v. p. 48. 



A pretty free-flowering species introduced by us in 1874 from Peru 

 through Walter Davis, who discovered it in the Andean valley of Sandia, 

 in the province of Caravaya, at 9,000-10,000 ft. elevation. The flowers 

 are white blotched with violet-purple, the " tails " yellow, spreading, and 

 slender. 



MASDEVALLIA LATA, Echb.f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 653. 



A two-flowered species with dark reddish-brown sepals and yellowish 

 tails, introduced from Central America through Zahn, but not now in 

 cultivation in this country. The name lata was given by Professor 

 Eeichenbach on account of the broad basis of the sepals. 



MASDEVALLIA MACEODACTYLA, Echb.f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 571. 



Imported from New Grenada, and flowered in April 1872. The flowers 

 are small, greenish-yellow with purple markings, and there are two brown 

 nerves on the petals. The tails are long and the peduncles warty. 



MASDEVALLIA PEEISTEEIA, Echb.f. 



Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1874, p. 500 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6159 ; Fl. des Serres, torn. xxii. 

 t. 2346 ; 1'Illus. Hort. s. 3, t. 327 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 57. 



One of the handsomest coriaceous Masdevallias, introduced from New 

 Grenada in 1873 through Gustav Wallis, who met with it in the province 

 of Antioquia. 



It derives its specific name Peristeria from the resemblance of its 

 column and petals to the same organs in the Dove Plant Peristeria elata. 



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