MASDEVALLIA CALURA Rechb. f. 
Maspevaniia catura Rchb.f. Gard. Chron. 1883, pt. IL., p. 230; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1883, p. 756. 
Leaf about 4 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, margins slightly 
recurved, bright green, narrowing below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Peduncle a little longer than the leaves, terete, with two or three sheathing bracts, ascending from 
the base of the petiole, dull red; flowering bract about 4 inch long, apiculate, sheathing below, pale 
green. 
Ovary 4 inch long, with three large and three small rounded angles, shining, dark crimson. 
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Sepals : dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for about 3 inch, forming a narrow tube, gibbous 
below, free portion very short, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, tapering into a slender tail nearly 2 inches 
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long, lateral sepals cohering for ? inch, roundly triangular, with three or four keeled nerves, tapering into 
slender flattened tails nearly 15 inch long ; all dark shining crimson, tails yellow, tipped with orange, and 
greenish at the hack. 
Petals about 4 inch long, fleshy, oval, with a triangular apex, and a small angle a little below, anterior 
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margin rounded and much thickened, rich crimson, with a white apex and margin. 
Lip scarcely as long as the petals, fleshy, united to the foot of the column by a flexible hinge, 
pandurate, with two longitudinal keels, apex rounded and reflexed, dark crimson. 
Column equalling the petals, white, broadly edged with crimson, foot rich crimson. 
ASDEVALLIA CALURA was discovered and introduced into cultivation by 
Consul Lehmann, who sent plants to Messrs. Sander in 1882. It grows with 1. 
Reichenbachiana on the western slopes of the Vulcan [razu, near San Isidro, in Costa 
Rica, at an elevation of 1,600 to 2,000 métres (5,200 to 6,500 feet.) 
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 ;— 
4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
3, lip ;—4, column ; 
