MASDEVALLIA MACULATA Klotzsch. 
MAsbEVALLIA MAcuLaTA Klotzsch et Karst. Alle. Gartz. (Otto und Dietrich) XV. (1847), p. 330; Walp. 
Ann. I. (1849), p. 774; VI. (1861), p. 190; Bonplandia IT. (1854), p. 23; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), 
p. 359; Flore des Serres t. 2150 (1875) ; Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 103; 1881, pt. IL, p. 336; Veitch 
Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 51. 
Var. flava Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 52. 
Leaf 6 or 7 inches long, liear-lanceolate, slightly carinate, apex tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing 
below into a grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 8 or 10 inches long, sharply angled (angles two, three, or four), producing several flowers, 
each flower falling off before the expansion of the next, bright green ; flowering bract about 1 inch long, 
carinate, apiculate, pale green, sheathing the numerous buds and the base of the terete reddish pedicel. 
Ovary about inch long, with three rounded angles and three wings, pale green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 2 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion 
ovate-triangular for } inch, 3-nerved, yellow, shaded and spotted with red, tapering into a fleshy flattened 
tail about 3 inches long, bright orange, greenish at the back ; lateral sepals cohering for 14 inch, oblong- 
ovate, 3-nerved, reddish-yellow at the margins, crimson in the centre, with dark nerves and spots, tapering 
into slender pale lemon-coloured tails, 2 inches long. 
Petals about 4 inch long, oblong, apiculate, anterior margin slightly keeled, white and very pale yellow. 
Lip about } inch long, pandurate, with two angles, dull purple, spotted with dark crimson, apex rough 
with dark crimson papille. 
Column } inch long, white, very narrowly winged with crimson, apex crenate. 
Ve MACULATA was discovered by Wagener at La Silla near Caracas, 
at an altitude of 8,000 feet, growing in woods on the branches of trees, and flowering 
in Juneand August. Wagener’s imported plants flowered in 1847 at the Botanic Gardens, 
Berlin, for the first time in cultivation. 
A well-known variety of MZ. maculata, var. flava (of which a flower is represented in 
the accompanying Plate), has small bright lemon-yellow flowers, tinged inside with 
reddish-brown. The petals, ete. are identical in structure with those of the type, but the 
column has none of the purple shading, and the lip is paler in colour. This variety was 
imported from Caracas by Messrs. Sander of St. Albans in 1881. 
A nearly allied species—or possibly a form of the same—is MW. bicolor, described and 
figured in 1838 by Poeppig and Endler (Noy. Gen. et Spee. IL., p. 6), and found growing 
on trees in the woods of Cuchero, in the eastern mountains of Peru, flowering in January. 
It has the angled stem usual to species of the same section, and flowers of the same 
colouring as those of JZ. maculata, but it is a much smaller plant, both leaves and stem 
being scarcely four inches in height. Living specimens of MW. bicolor have never been 
imported, and until the plant has been re-discovered and carefully examined, its identity 
with M. maculata must remain uncertain. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;—3, lip ; 
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—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size 
