MASDEVALLIA DEMISSA Rehb. f. 
Maspreva.ita pemissa Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1887, pt. IL., p. 9 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) 1888, p. 168 ; 
Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 39. 
Leaf 5 or 6 inches long, oblong-spathulate, carinate at the back, leathery, apex tridenticulate, bright 
green, narrowing below into a pale green grooved petiole, sheathed at the base. 
Pedunele, including pedicel, about 2 inches long, terete, ascending from within the sheath at the base 
of the petiole, with two sheathing bracts, pale green ; flowering bract about 3 inch long, oblong-ovate, 
apiculate, sheathing below, pale brownish green. 
Ovary } inch long, with six grooves, shining green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly 7 inch, forming a narrow curved tube, free 
portion very short, triangular, 3-nerved, terminating in slender tail about 1 inch long, bright yellow shaded 
with chestnut-brown ; lateral sepals cohering for ? inch, triangular-ovate, 3-nerved, terminating in slender 
recurved tails nearly 2 inch long, bright chestnut-brown with orange veins, all the tails orange, greenish 
at the back. 
Petals about + inch long, oblong, with a rounded angle on the anterior margin, thick and fleshy, dull 
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crimson-purple, paler at the margin. 
Lip a little longer than the petals, oblong-pandurate, with two longitudinal angled keels, base thick, 
grooved, united to the curved foot of the column by a flexible hinge, apex recurved, dull crimson-brown, 
the keels paler. 
Column nearly as long as the petals, curved, very narrowly winged, white, foot crimson, apex very 
minutely crenate. 
] ROR from the mountains of Costa Rica by Messrs. Shuttleworth and Carder, 
of Clapham, about the year 1886, with no record of its exact habitat. 
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 ;— 
3, lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; all enlarged ;—5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
