MASDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA Rchb. f. 
Maspevati1a Verrcutana Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 814, and p. 1338 ; 1871, p. 1421, fig. 310a ; 
1879, pt. IL, p. 305, fig. 49x, w; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409, fig. A; 1883, pt. I, p. 662 (var. biflora 
Rchb.f.) ; Bot. Mag. t. 5739 (1868) ; Iustr. Hort. vol. XV. (1868), p. 107; Flore des Serres t. 1808 
(1868) ; Floral Mag. vol. IX. (1870), t. 481; Belg. Hort. 1878, p. 361, Florist and Pomol. 1873, 
p. 169, fig. 1 of coloured Plate ; Warner, Select Orch. ser. 2 (1865-1875), t. 33 ; De Puydt, Les 
Orch. (1880), p. 289, t. 25 ; Lindenia, vol. II. (1886), p. 97, t. 95. 
Leaf 9 or 10 inches long, linear-oblong, obtusely tridenticulate, carinate, dark green, narrowing below 
into a slender grooved petiole, pale green, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 12 to 18 inches long, terete, slender, with two or three sheathing bracts, green, with small 
crimson streaks ; flowering bract about 1 inch long, 5 or 7-nerved, carinate, apiculate, sheathing, pale green. 
Ovary } to 4 inch long, with six rounded angles, dull green shaded with crimson. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 14 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, 
free portion triangular-ovate for 1 inch, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail 1 or 2 inches long ; lateral 
sepals cohering for about 14 inch, free portions oblong-triangular, 5-nerved, margins reflexed, tapering into 
slender tails 4 or ? inch long, immer surface of all brilliant orange-scarlet, more or less closely set with 
short, translucent, purple hairs ; outer surface pale yellow, nerved and shaded with scarlet. 
Petals varying slightly in different specimens, nearly } inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate or 
tridenticulate, anterior margin narrowly keeled, terminating in an angle with a mass of viscid, tasteless, 
colourless matter beneath, white, sometimes tinged with yellow at the apex. 
Lip varying in different specimens, about 4 inch long, united to the curved foot of the column by a 
flexible hinge, fleshy at the base, linear-oblong, margin variably reflexed, white and rose-purple, with two 
longitudinal, dark purple keels, apex sharply reflexed, very dark purple, with a velvety cushion of minute 
papillee. 
Column + to 2 inch long, apex denticulate, white, narrowly edged with crimson. 
yf AsDEVALLIA VEITCHIANA was discovered near Cuzco, in 1867, by Pearce, at 
an elevation of 11,000 to 13,000 feet, and was named and described by Professor 
Reichenbach in 1868. With Mr. H. Veitch’s permission I quote from his “ Manual of 
Orchidaceous Plants,” Part V. p. 69, the following account by his collector Davis of the 
habitat of this species : 
“ Masdevallia Veitchiana occurs above the timber line, at the altitude above stated ; 
the plants are found in the crevices and hollows of the rocks with but little soil about 
their roots, but sometimes where a small quantity of decaying vegetable matter has 
accumulated ; in this case the plants are more robust, and when partially shaded by 
