MASDEVALLIA CORIACEA Lindl. 
Masprvatria corracea Lindl. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. (1845), p. 257; Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 4; 
Karsten Flora Colomb. (1862-1869) vol. IL., p. 103, t, CLIT. ; Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1067 ; 1881, 
pt. IL., p. 236 ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 356 ; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 36. 
M. Bruchmiilleri Linden Cat. n. 90 (1873) ; Belg. Hort. 1873, p. 355; Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. IL, p. 236. 
Leaf 6 or 8 inches long and about 3 inch wide, linear, slightly carinate, thick and fleshy, apex 
obtusely tridenticulate, dull green, narrowing into a thick, grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle, including the pedicel, about 7 or 8 inches long, with two bracts, terete, 1-flowered or rarely 
2-flowered, ascending from a joint at the base of the petiole, pale green spotted with crimson ; flowering 
bract about 1 inch long, ovate-acuminate above, sheathing below, 5-nerved, pale green spotted with purple. 
Ovary about } inch long, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, shining, bright green, 
minutely dotted with crimson. 
Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 5 inch, forming a wide tube, free portion ovate- 
triangular for 5 inch, 3-nerved, greenish-white, spotted along the nerves with crimson ; lateral sepals 
cohering for about an inch, free portions ovate-triangular for nearly 3 inch, 3-nerved, ereenish-white, 
covered on the inner surface with minute white hairs, nerves pale green spotted with crimson, the spots 
very numerous at the base of the tube ; all the sepals terminating in thick fleshy tails $ to 1 inch long, 
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greenish or dull pale yellow, spotted at the back with crimson, green at the apex. 
Petals 4 inch long, oblanceolate, thick and fleshy, with a prominent angle near the centre of the 
anterior margin, beneath which the inner surface is covered with thick viscid matter, tasteless and colour- 
less ; shining white, central nerve crimson, apex greenish. 
Lip about 4 inch long, oblong, with two longitudinal, angled keels, greenish-white, with three crimson 
lines terminating before the apex ; base fleshy, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, 
deeply grooved, with a wide hollow nectary on each side, purple with minute dots; apex triangular, 
greenish, crenate and covered with minute papillee. 
Column about 4 inch long, pale green, narrowly winged with crimson, apex minutely denticulate, foot 
white or pink, spotted with crimson. 
ASDEVALLIA CORIACEA was discovered by Hartweg on the hills of Montserrate 
near Bogota, and his dried specimens were described in 1845 by Dr. Lindley. 
Shortly afterwards it was found by Linden at an elevation of 7,200 feet, growing upon 
trees in the forests of Fusagasuga in the Province of Bogota, flowering in December, the 
temperature at this altitude being about 59° Fahrenheit. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
2a, side of petal ;—8, lip ;—8a, base of lip, showing nectaries (much enlarged) ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of 
column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natwral size ;—6, seed-capsules from wild plant. 
