MASDEVALLIA SCHLIMII Lind. 
Masprvai1a Scar Lind. MSS. Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Bonplandia IL. (1854), pp. 23 and 
283 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360; Gard. Chron. 1883, 
pt. L, p. 582, fig. 80 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 662; Bot. Mag. t. 6740 (1884) ; Die 
Natiirl. Pflanzenfam. (Engler und Prantl) pt. 23 (1888), p. 137, fig. 185; Veitch Manual Orch. 
pt. V. (1889), p. 61. 
Var. Sceptrum=Masdevallia Sceptrum Rehb. f. Bonplandia II. (1854), p. 283 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), 
p. 194; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360. 
Var. polyantha=Masdevallia polyantha Lindl. Orch. Lind. (1846), p. 6; Bonplandia II. (1854), p. 283 ; 
II. (1855), p. 69 ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 193; Belg. Hort. XXIII. (1873), p. 360. 
Leaf 10 or 12 inches long, obovate, carinate, apex tridenticulate, very bright green, the principal 
nerves paler, narrowing below into a very pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle 14 or 15 inches long, with two or three sheathing bracts, terete, ascending from within a 
sheath at the base of the petiole, racemose, producing six or eight flowers, each on an erect pedicel 1 or 
15 inch long, at intervals of 3 or 4 inch, pale green dotted with dull red; flowering bracts about 4 inch 
long, apiculate, sheathing below, brownish. 
Ovary } inch long, triangular, with six deep grooves, slightly winged, green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for 4 inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion trian- 
gular for about } inch, 3-nerved, nerves carinate without, bright yellow, with minute reddish-brown spots, 
terminating in a slender yellow tail about 2 inches long ; lateral sepals cohering for 7 inch, gibbous at the 
base, 3-nerved, obovate for 3 inch, yellow, closely spotted with velvety, dull crimson spots, over which is 
a purplish lustre, tapering into slender yellow tails 14 inch long. 
Petals 1 inch long, linear-oblong, acutely angled on both margins, with a fleshy keel on the anterior 
margin, white, apex very pale yellow. 
Lip nearly } inch long, oblong, curved, with two curved keels on the anterior portion, base fleshy, 
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grooved, whitish, mottled with transverse crimson spots, apex much reflexed, yellow spotted with crimson. 
Column above } inch long, narrowly winged, apex slightly crenate, white edged with crimson. 
ASDEVALLIA SCHLIMII was discovered in 1843 by Louis Schlim, growing on 
trees at Valle, near Merida in Venezuela, at an elevation of 7,500 feet, and was 
first described by Dr. Lindley in 1846, under the name proposed for it by Linden in 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at N ewbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal ;—3, lip ;—4, 
column ;—4a, apex of column ; al/ enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
