MAspEVALLIA CARDERI. 
longer, thicker, and more acuminate, while the flowers are of thicker texture and more 
tubular. These characteristics I find to be also present in cultivated plants. The two 
forms can only be regarded as local varieties, their variation probably accounted for by 
the different elevation and temperature of the localities in which they grow. 
T have received the following note from Consul Lehmann : 
The variety of Masdevallia Carderi with long slender tails comes from the neighbourhood of the 
Rio Dagua, in the Western Andes of Cali, in the State of Cauca, Colombia, where it grows on trees in 
dense, very damp woods at an elevation of 400 to 800 metres (1,300 to 2,600 feet), in a temperature of 
24° and 25° Centigrade (about 75° to 77° Fahrenheit). 
The short-tailed variety is found in Antioquia, where it grows on trees in dense shrubby woods on 
the Iracdl and Musinga mountains between Dabeiba and Frontino, at a greater elevation, 800 to 1,400 
mitres (2,600 to 4,550 feet) ; and in a lower temperature, only 21° to 22° Centigrade (about 69° to 71° 
Fahrenheit). 7 
The climate of both localities is very damp, and the rainfall is profuse and constant. There is no 
really dry season in these regions, but during the months of July and August, and of January and 
February, the rains are not so heavy and frequent as during the other months of the year. 
In a wild state MZ. Carderi flowers from October until December, and during May and June. 
