MASDEVALLIA BARLAZANA Rebb. f. 
MAsprvaLiiA BARLMANA Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. 1876, pt. L., p. 170; 1881, pt. IL., p. 236; Belg. Hort. 
1877, p. 141 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 25. 
Leaf about 5 inches long, ovate-lanceolate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below into a 
slender grooved pale green petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle, including the pedicel, 8 or 9 inches long, terete, erect, slender, one-flowered, with two or 
three sheathing bracts, pinkish ; flowering bract nearly 3 inch long, apiculate, sheathing below, dull 
greenish-pink. 
Ovary about 3 inch long, slender, with three large and three small rounded angles, dull pink. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for ? inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion 
ovate-triangular for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, terminating in a slender terete tail nearly 15 inch long ; 
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lateral sepals cohering for more than 1 inch, roundly triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tails 
about 4 inch long ; all rose-magenta, shaded and veined with scarlet or crimson. 
Petals very minute, oblong, tridentate, with an angled keel on the anterior margin, white. 
Lip scarcely as long as the petals, oblong, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, 
with two longitudinal keels, white, apex slightly reflexed, rose-pink. 
Column shorter than the petals, foot much curved, apex denticulate, white, faintly tinged with pink. 
ASDEVALLIA BARLAANA was discovered near Cuzco, in the Andes of Peru, 
by Davis, while collecting for Messrs. Veitch, in 1875. It was named by Professor 
Reichenbach after Senhor Barla, Brazilian Consul, and Director of the Natural History 
Museum at Nice, and the author of several botanical works. 
This species is very closely allied to M. amabilis, but a glance at the Plate repre- 
senting that plant will show that considerable differences exist between the two plants. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
