MASDEVALLIA CAUDATA Lindl. 
Maspevatrta caupara Lindl. Gen. et spec. Orch. (1833), p. 193; Oreh. Lind. (1846), p. 5; Rehb. f. 
Bonplandia I. (1854), p. 23; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 189; Karsten Flor. Colomb. (1862-1869), 
vol. II., p. 103, t. CLIII.; Morren Belg. Hort. 1878, p. 355; Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. L.,.p. 170; 
1881, pt. IL., p. 236; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 28. 
M. Shuttleworthii Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1875, pt. I; p. 170; 1881, pt. IL, p. 409; 1884, pt. L., p. 741, 
in group fig. 141; Bot. Mag. t. 6372 (1878); Gartenflora (Regel) XXVII. (1878), p. 26; XXXIX. 
(1890), p. 457, pl. 1329; Illustr. Hort. 1881, p. 171, t. 435; Orch, Album (Warn. et Will.) vol. I. 
(1882), t. 5; Reichenbachia vol. I. (1887), p. 29, pl. 18; Lindenia vol. IV. (1888), p. 80, pl. 
CLXXXII.; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 28. 
Var. xanthocorys Rehb. f. Gard. Chron. 1882, pt. I. p. 366 ; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3), 
p. 289 ; Reichenbachia vol. I. (1887), p. 29, pl. 13; Veitch Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p- 29. 
Leaf 4 or 5 inches long and about 1 inch wide, oblanceolate, tridenticulate, bright green, narrowing 
below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, pale green, with black spots. 
Peduncle, including pedicel, about 4 inches long, with two bracts, terete, slender, ascending from the 
base of the petiole, pale green ; flowering bract 4 inch long, ovate, apiculate, sheathing, with a small 
rudimentary bud within at the base, pale dull green. 
Ovary about 3 inch long, with three broad and three narrow rounded angles, dull white. 
Sepals cohering for about } inch, dorsal sepal ovate, cucullate, clear golden yellow, with numerous 
minute crimson spots, and five deep crimson nerves, the lateral nerves sometimes bifurcating ; lateral 
sepals gibbous below, ovate-triangular for nearly 1 inch, 5-nerved, rose-coloured, closely covered with 
small transverse crimson spots; all the sepals terminating in slender tails 2 or 3 inches long, orange- 
yellow, greenish at the back. 
Petals about 4 inch long, linear-oblong, curved, anterior margin bicarinate, terminating in a curved 
auricle, apex tridentate, white. 
Lip 4 inch long 
3) 
oblong-pandurate, with two obseure longitudinal keels, base fleshy, grooved, with 
two rounded lobes beneath, whitish, with numerous rose-coloured spots, apex much reflexed, rose-pink, 
with darker spots. 
Column a little longer than the petals, broadly winged, white, with deep crimson apex, sometimes 
wholly crimson, wings edged and spotted with crimson, apex dentate. 
DE OyERED by Mons. Justin Goudot, a French botanist employed by the Govern- 
ment of Colombia to found various scientific establishments at Bogota. His 
explorations, between the years 1823 and 1842, extended from Venezuela to Bogota, 
among the Cordilleras in all directions, and across the fertile valleys of the Magdalena 
and the Cauca. Specimens of MM. caudata collected by him near San Fortunato, were 
named and described in 1833 by Dr. Lindley, who also, in 1846, described specimens 
found by Linden, growing upon trees on Mount Quindiu, at the height of 10,000 feet, 
between Los Voleancitos and Paramillo. The first drawing of this species is an excellent 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhbattle Abbey : 
Fig. 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—la, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side ;— 
3, lip ;—3a, underside of lip ;—4, column ;—4a, apex of column ; al/ enlarged ;—5, apex and section of 
leat, natural size ;—6, var. vanthocorys Rehb. f., natural size. 
