MASDEVALLIA FULVESCENS Rolfe. 
MASDEVALLIA FULVESCENS Rolfe. Gard. Chron. 1890, pt. IL, p. 325, fig. 65. 
Leaf about 4 inches long, oblong-lanceolote, carinate at the back, apex tridenticulate, narrowing 
below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, bright green. 
Peduncle 8 inches long, terete, slender, erect from within the sheath at the base of the petiole, pale 
green ; bract 4 inch long, membranous, ovate, apiculate, sheathing below, with a minute rudimentary 
bud within at the base, pale green. 
Ovary 1 inch long, with six rounded angles, pale green. 
Sepals: dorsal sepal united to the lateral sepals for nearly } inch, forming a narrow tube, free portion 
broadly triangular for nearly + inch, cucullate, 3-nerved, dull orange-yellow shaded with reddish-crimson, 
terminating in a slender, waved, flattened tail 25 or 3 inches long, bright orange, pale greenish-yellow at 
the base ; lateral sepals cohering for about 1 inch, oblong-triangular, with three prominent nerves, the 
spaces hetween hollowed inwards, white, shaded with pale rose-pink and yellow, tapering into slender, 
waved, flattened tails about 2 inches long, bright orange, pale greenish-yellow at the base. 
Petals scarcely } inch long, oblong, very thick and fleshy, margins waved, anterior margin much 
thickened, pale pink, with a few small rose-pink spots and a darker central stripe. 
Lip a little longer than the petals, fleshy at the base and united by a hinge to the foot of the column, 
oblong, with two small longitudinal keels near the centre, apex recurved, very pale pink, with a darker 
stripe and a few spots near the apex. 
Column a little shorter than the petals, narrowly winged, apex denticulate, white, with rose-pink 
spots. 
ASDEVALLIA FULVESCENS was imported from Colombia, in 1890, by Messrs. 
F. Horsman and Co., of Colchester, and there is no further record of its habitat. 
It is closely allied to, if not identical with, M7. Schroederiana, which is, however, so much 
more beautiful that I have figured it in a separate Plate, treating it—until some more 
competent botanist shall decide the question—as a distinct species. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhattle 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. 
