HORTUS VEITCHII 



MASDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA, Echb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Ckron. 1868, p. 814; Bot. Mag. t. 5739; Fl. des Serres, torn. xvii. 

 t. 1803 ; Fl. Mag. t. 481 ; Fl. and Pom. 1873, p. 169, fig. 1 ; Veitchs' Man. 

 Orch. PI. pt. v. p. 67, fig. 



Masdevallia Veitchiana was discovered in the lofty Andes of Peru by 

 Pearce in 1866, and successfully introduced by him. 



A few years later it was re-discovered in the same locality by Walter 

 Davis, who states that it grows in the crevices and hollows of the rocks 

 with but little soil, at an altitude of 11,000-13,000 ft. 



It is a variable plant, the flowers differing in size, colour, and in 

 the manner in which the papillae is spread over the inner surface of the 

 sepals. A large-flowered form, grandiflora, may be distinguished by 

 having the upper sepal densely and uniformly covered with purple papillae, 

 while in the lateral two this covering is confined entirely to the outer 

 half, the inner being of the purest orange-scarlet and destitute of papillae. 



MAXILLAEIA CTENOSTACHYA, Echb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1870, p. 39. 



Imported from Costa Eica, but not now in cultivation. The tails of the 

 yellow flowers are so long as to resemble the Brassias. 



MILTONIA ENDEESII, Nicholson. 



Syns. Odontoglossum Warsceiviczii, Rchb. f. 



Nich. Diet. Gard. vol. ii. p. 368 ; Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1875, p. 270 ; Bob. Mag. 

 t. 6163 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. viii. p. 101. 



Originally discovered by Warscewicz in 1849, in restricted numbers, 

 growing in only two localities on leguminous trees, it was twenty-two 

 years later re-discovered by M. Linden's collector, Wallis, who tried 

 unsuccessfully to introduce it. In 1873 it was found by Endres in 

 Central America, and through him, after several attempts, we succeeded 

 in introducing it. The first flowers were produced by a plant at Chelsea 

 in 1875. 



MILTONIA VEXILLAEIA, Benth. 



Syns. Odontoglossum vexillarium, Rchb. 



Nich. Diet. Gard. vol. ii. p. 369 ; Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 901 ; id. 1872, p. 667 ; 

 id. 1873, pp. 580, 644, fi s s. ; Bot. Mag. t. 6037; Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 73; 1'Illus. Hort. 

 xx. t. 113 ; Rev. Hort. 1876, p. 390 ; La Belg. Hort. xxx. p. 257 ; Fl. des Serres, 

 xx. t. 2058 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. viii. p. 110. 



This well-known orchid was probably first discovered by the unfortunate 

 Bowman, when collecting in New Grenada. 



Subsequently found by Wallis, and again later by W. Eoezl; both 

 sent home plants which arrived dead or in a dying condition. With 

 scanty information Henry Chesterton undertook, at our request, to 



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