MASDEVALLIA EPHIPPIUM Rchb. f. 
MaspgvaLiia Epurrrum Rehb. f. Bot. Zeit. 1873, p. 390 ; Xenia Orch. vol. IL. (1874), p. 213, t. 195 ; 
Gard. Chron. 1874. pt. I, p. 372; 1881, pt. IL., p. 236 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6208, (1876). 
M. Trochilus Lind. Dlustr. Hort. vol. XXI. (1874), p. 186, t. 180; Gard. Chron. 1873, p: 711; 1875, 
pt. I., p. 504; 1881, pt. IL, p. 110; Floral Mag. 1881, t. 443. 
M. Colibri. Hort. Burbidge Florist and Pomol. 1873, p. 3; Gard. Chron. 1885, pt. I., p. 174. 
Var. acrochordonia—=Masdevallia acrochordonia Rehb. f. Xenia Orch. vol. IL. (1874), p. 213; Gard. 
Chron. 1885, pt. I., p. 174; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1885, p. 199. 
Leaf 5 to 10 inches long, 1 or 14 inch broad, oblanceolate, minutely tridenticulate, narrowing below 
into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green. 
Peduncle 10 or 12 inches long, many-flowered, each flower falling off before the expansion of the 
next, ascending from within a sheath at the base of the petiole, acutely angled, angles from one to five, 
most frequently three; bright green; flowering bract 1 inch, or more, long, sheathing, apiculate, pale 
green. 
Ovary } to 2 inch long, triangular, with six deep grooves, bright green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 2 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, ovate for 
about 4 inch, cucullate, 3-nerved, yellow, with minute brown spots, narrowing into a tail 4 or 5 inches 
long, yellow, greenish at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for nearly two inches, much inflated, 3-nerved, 
nerves depressed, with the intervening spaces much distended, colour on the exterior crimson-brown with 
greenish nerves, on the interior yellow closely covered with small crimson spots, rich crimson near the 
tube, the nerves thickly studded with large, irregular warts ; terminating abruptly in slender tails 3 or 4 
inches long, meeting at the base, diverging towards the extremity, yellow, greenish at the back. 
Petals about } inch long, oblong, apiculate, with a prominent keel on the anterior margin terminating 
in a small angle, and a smaller keel near the opposite margin, white. 
Lip a little more than } inch long, grooved at the base, with two triangular lateral lobes, obovate 
towards the acute apex, white, spotted and barred with crimson. 
Column about } inch long, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white, with wings and back rose- 
crimson. 
HE discoverer of Masdevallia Ephippium was undoubtedly Gustay Wallis, in 1868, 
although the discovery is sometimes ascribed to Dr. Krause, as late as the year 
1873. In the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1875, pt. I., p. 504, an interesting account of the 
discovery of M. Ephippium, under the synonym of M. Trochilus, is given by Wallis, 
