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MASDEVALLIA 



MATRICARIA 



42. nycterina, Reichb. f. Often confused with M. 

 Chimsera, but a smaller and less showy plant: tufted: 

 Ivs. oblanceolate, somewhat fleshy, channelled, 6 in. 

 long, not narrowed into a petiole: peduncle 1-fld., 3 in. 

 long, drooping; fl. triangular, 2x3 in., with tails 3 

 in. long, hairy inside, brown-yellow and purple-spotted; 

 petals yellow, with red spots, pouch-like, serrate. 

 Colombia. I.H. 20:117, 118 (as M. Chimsera). Odd. 



43. Chimera, Reichb. f. Fig. 2332. Tufted: Ivs. 

 oblanceolate-obtuse, 1 ft. long and 1^ in. wide: 

 peduncle wiry, erect, lateral or pendent, several-fld., 

 mostly shorter than the lys.; fls. opening in succession; 

 calyx-lobes ovate, yellowish, much spotted with deep 

 crimson-purple, tapering into slender tails from 3-11 



in. long, purple-brown; petals white, marked 

 with crimson; labellum saccate, white, yellow 

 or pinkish, very variable. Colombia. R.H. 

 1881:130. G.C. II. 3:41. C.O. 5. One of 

 the most fantastic of orchids, and the type of 

 a most interesting group. 



3 /V Masdevallia 

 Chimaera. 



Var. Roezlii, 

 Hort. (M. Roezlii, lWMII 

 Reichb. f.). No * Miff 

 long hairs on the lljlf 

 calyx-lobes, the /,/(/' 

 lobes very dark- 

 colored, with short 

 warts; labellum 

 pink, not yellow. 

 Color the darkest 

 of the section. Often 

 regarded as a good 

 species. Sub-var. 

 r ft bra. Spots on 

 calyx -lobe brown- 

 crimson. 



Tr -trr'if 

 Var. Wallisn, 



Hort. (M. Wdllisii, 

 Reichb. f.) Calyx-lobes with hispid 

 pubescence, yellowish, spotted with 

 brown-purple; labellum white, yel- 

 low within. 



Var. Winniana, Hort. (M. Win- 

 niana, Reichb. f.). Calyx -lobes 

 elongated, densely black-spotted. In 

 part distinguished from var. Roezlii by its longer tails. 



Var. Backhousiana, Hort. (M. Backhousidna, Reichb. 

 f.). Lvs. narrower than in the type: fls. large; calyx- 

 lobes more round, paler, not so thickly spotted; tails 

 short; labellum nearly white.- Perhaps a distinct 

 species. 



44. Chestertonii, Reichb. f. Tufted: Ivs. oblong or 

 oblong-spatulate, 5 in. long and nearly or quite 1 in. 

 wide, somewhat longer than the pendent, much-bracted, 

 1-fld. peduncles: fls. 2}^ in. across, greenish yellow, 

 spotted and streaked with purple, and bearing 3 spread- 

 ing, greenish, more or less hooked, flattened tails 1 in. 

 long; petals yellow, very small. Colombia. B.M. 6977. 

 Odd and distinct. 



SECTION V. 



45. triaristella, Reichb. f. Lvs. about 2 in. long, in 

 very crowded tufts: peduncles longer than the Ivs., very 

 slender, erect, wiry: dorsal lobe of calyx ovate, hooded; 

 tail yellow; lateral lobes coloring throughout their 

 length, linear, united, at length diverging into short 



yellow tails; petals yellow, with a red midline. Summer. 

 Costa Rica. One of the smallest of orchids. 



The following have been offered in Amer., but most of them are 

 imperfectly known. M. cheirophora. M. C'/(e/so/m=M. amabilis 

 X M. Veitchiana. M. 0i&6erdso=Scaphosepaluni. M. Hender- 

 soni. M. purtc<dta=Scaphosepalum. M. trificata. 



M. AlcesteM.. Veitchiana X M. Asruodia. M. Arminii, 

 Reichb. f. Fls. with whitish tube, the free portion of sepals crimson- 



Eurple, the lateral with filiform yellowish tails 1-2 in. long. Colom- 

 ia. J.H. III. 50:313; 61:577. M. burfordiensis, O'Brien. Fls. 

 white, profusely dotted with claret-color; petals white, with purple 

 lobes; lip purple. M. deorsum, Rolfe. Fls. yellow, blotched bright 

 red; dorsal sepal reflexed, contracted suddenly into a tail 2-3 in. 

 long; lateral sepals gradually narrowed into shorter tails. Col- 

 ombia. B.M. 7766. G.C. III. 28:395. M. Ortgiesiana, Hort. 

 Scape 1-fld.; fls. pale greenish white. M. peruvidna, Rolfe. Petals 

 white, tinged with lilac; sepals light brown. Peru. M. Pour- 

 baixii, Hort.=M. Veitchiana X M. Shuttleworthii. Fls. vermilion, 

 flushed with orange-yellow, and marked with numerous brownish 

 red dots. G.M. 47:373. Lind. 9:387. M. Schroederiana, Hort. 

 Sepals abruptly contracted into yellow tails, the dorsal arched, 

 the lateral much recurved, thickly 3-nerved, bullate, white marked 

 with red. Peru (?). B.M. 7859. M. Tonduzii, Woolward. 

 Peduncle slender, 1-fld.; sepals connate at base, whitish citron- 

 colored inside, elongated into slender yellow tails. Costa Rica. 

 M. vendsa, Rolfe. Perianth straw-yellow, densely spotted with dull 

 purple; lip dull red-purple. Colombia. M. Xipheres, Reichb. f. 

 Allied to M. muscosa: fls. small, purple, on tall slender sts. 



Colombia. HEINRICH HASSELBRING. 



GEORGE V. NASH.| 



MASSANGEA (named for a Belgian horticulturist, 

 M. Massange de Louvrex). Bromeliacese. A disputed 

 genus; by Bentham & Hooker included in Caraguata, 

 and by Mez combined with Guzmania. The single 

 species admitted by Wittmack in Engler & Prantl, M. 

 musaica, Morr., becomes Guzmania musaica (Tilldndsia 

 musaica, Lind. & Andre". T 7 . mosaica. Hort. Vriesia 

 musaica, Hort.), by the Mezian disposition (see Vol. 

 Ill, p. 1419). It is a good warmhouse subject. 



MASSONIA (Francis Masson, 1741-1805, collector 

 in S. Afr.). Liliaceae. South African bulbous plants, of 

 more than 30 species, allied to Allium; rarely grown as 

 pot-plants in the greenhouse. Plants with 2 or 3 very 

 broad opposite Ivs., and a very short scape so that the 

 usually white or greenish fls. are borne in a sessile or 

 nearly sessile globose head at the surface of the ground 

 surrounded by several membranaceous bracts: perianth 

 with a cylindrical tube and narrow spreading or reflexed 

 nearly equal segms. ; stamens 6, inserted at the throat, 

 the filaments more or less united at the base; ovary 

 3-celled and many-ovuled, becoming a membranaceous 

 3-valved caps. M . pustulata, Jacq., has an ovoid bulb, 

 1 in. diam., ribbed tuberculate broad-oblong Ivs., and 

 greenish fls. in the cup of pustulate foliage; perianth- 

 tube cylindrical, the segms. narrow and spreading; 

 stamens long and upstanding. B.M. 642. G.C. III. 

 39:44. An odd plant, requiring warm greenhouse con- 

 ditions. L. H. B. 



MATRICARIA (mater, mother, from its use in dis- 

 eases). Composite. MATRICARY. WILD CHAMOMILE. 

 Annual or perennial weedy herbs, often heavily scented. 



From Chrysanthemum it differs mostly in the 

 achenes, which are 3-5-ribbed on the interior face and 

 ribless on the back; also in having a higher or more 

 conical receptacle, and bracts in few rather than many 

 series. About 25 species in many parts of the world. 

 The foliage is much cut or divided into thread-like 

 divisions. The matricarias are border plants in cult., 

 and others are intro. weeds. They are commonly con- 

 founded with species of Chrysanthemum and feverfew. 

 The M . exima plena of the trade is a form of Chrysan- 

 themum Parthenium (var. tubulosum). It is a good 

 hardy annual, with white double heads, growing 2 ft. 

 tall. Matricarias demand the care given to annual 

 chrysanthemums. The three following are annuals or 

 biennials. 



inodora, Linn. (Chrysdnthemum inoddrum, Linn. 

 Pyrethrum inoddrum, Smith). Nearly or quite gla- 

 brous, branchy, diffuse annual, 1-2 ft. tall, from Eu. 



