SECTION III. 
CORIACEA® Rehb. f. 
OST of the plants in this Section have rigid, leathery (coriaceous) leaves, and thiek 
succulent flowers, borne erect upon strong stalks, or pushed out laterally from 
the base of the leaf-stem. The flowers of nearly all the species have two well-developed 
nectaries at the base of the lip, containing, in three or four instances, a considerable 
quantity of honey. In this Section are included the most fragrant and the most 
malodorous of the Genus. 
18 species figured : 
Masdevallia campyloglossa Rehb. f. 
civilis Rehb. f. (=. equiloba Regel, et M. rufolutea Lindl.) 
coriacea Lindl. (=I. Bruchmiilleri Lind.) 
cupularis Rehb. f. 
elephanticeps Rehb. f. (=. Gargantua Rchb.f.) 
fractiflexa Lehm. MS. (not in cultivation.) 
fragrans, sp. nov. 
Laucheana Rchb. f. 
leontoglossa Rehb. f. 
Mooreana Rehb. f. (=M. elephanticeps var. pachysepala Rehb. f. 
et M. sororcula Rehb. f.) 
Ortgiesiana hort. 
pachyantha Rehb. f. 
Peristeria Rehb. f. 
platyglossa Rehb. f. 
porcelliceps Rehb. f. 
striatella Rehb. f. 
torta Rehb. f. 
velifera Rehb. f. 
Yauperyensis Rodrig. (not in cultivation.) 
Not in cultivation : 
M. afjinis Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5. 
angulata Rehb. f: Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878 ), p. 15. 
Bonplandii Rehb. Bonplandia ILI. (1855), p. 69. 
Cayennensis Rehb. f: Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz. X X TIT. (1855 ), p. 248. 
chloracra Rehb. f. Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 560. 
ellipes Rehb. f. Linnea XLT. (1877), p. 11. 
ensata Rehb. f: Linnea X XIT. (1849), p. S18. 
fractiflexa Lehm. (see Plate). 
heterotepala Rehb. f: Flora (Singer) 1886, p. 561. 
levis Lindl. Ann. Nat. Hist. (1845), p. 257. 
lepida Rehb. f- Bonplandia ITT. (1855), p. 69. 
macroglossa Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1578), p. 15. 
pardina Rehb. f. Otia. Bot. Hamb. (1878), p. 15. 
Yauaperyensis Rodrig. (see Plate.) 
