MASDEVALLIA GUTTULATA Rchb. f. 
Masprvatrt1a Gurrutata Rehb. f. Linnea XLI. (1877), p. 118; Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. IL., p. 267. 
Leaf about 5 inches long and 3 inch wide, oblong, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing below 
into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, pale green. 
Pedunele 6 to 10 inches long, erect, 3-angled, bright green, many-flowered, each flower falling off 
before the expansion of the next ; flowering bract about 2 inch long, sheathing below, carinate, apiculate, 
brownish-green. 
Ovary nearly + inch long, curved, rounded, with six grooves, pale green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, triangular for 73; inch, 
tapering into a thick greenish tail 8 inch long ; lateral sepals cohering for about } inch, 3-nerved, ovate- 
triangular for 4 inch, tapering very gradually into flattened blunt fleshy tails nearly } inch long, greenish ; 
all the sepals dull white, with numerous small tufts of short crimson hairs upon the inner surface, nerves 
yellowish, prominent on the outer surface.- 
Petals ,3; inch long, linear-oblong, apiculate, pale yellow, with a crimson keel near the anterior margin. 
Lip about the length of the petals, grooved, fleshy and cordate at the base, and united to the foot of 
the column by a flexible hinge, oblong, angled at the margin, apex ovate, apiculate, with numerous minute 
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papillae, pale yellow, covered with small crimson spots, apex brighter yellow. 
Column a little shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex scarcely dentate, very pale green, 
spotted on the foot with crimson. 
}y Seen. GUTTULATA. was discovered—probably in Ecuador—by Gustav 
Wallis, whose dried specimens were described by Professor Reichenbach in 1877. 
As lately as 1890 it was again described by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, of the Royal Herbarium, 
Kew, who then considered it to be a new species. It is still rare and little-known, and 
to be found in only a few collections in this country, perhaps owing to its being extremely 
local in its native habitat. I have received several specimens from Mr. F. W. Moore, of 
Glasnevin, Dublin, whose plant furnished the photograph for the accompanying woodcut. 
Messrs. Seeger and Tropp, also, with rare generosity, forwarded to me a living plant in 
full flower, a most valuable assistance in the completion of my drawings. 
The two species most nearly allied to IZ. guttulata are M. infracta and M. Ephippium, 
which it resembles in producing several flowers in succession from a thick, angled stem. 
A curious feature, hitherto unnoticed in any botanical description of this plant, is the 
Explanation of Plate : 
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. 
