MASDEVALLIA WAGENERIANA Lindl. 
Masprvariia Wacenertana Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. vol. ILL (1852-3), p. 74, fig. 267 ; Rev. ed. (1884) 
vol. IIL., p. 138, fig. 250; Rehb. f. Bonplandia IL. (1854), p. 23; Bot. Mag. t. 4921 (1856) ; Xen. 
Orch. I. (1858), p. 199 ; pl. 75, fig. Il. ; Walp. Ann. VI. (1861), p. 188, Gard. Chron. 1881, pt. L, 
p. 720; pt. IL, p. 409; 1883, pt. I, p. 598; Orchidophile (Godefroy) vol. I. (1881-3), p. 52; Veitch 
Manual Orch. pt. V. (1889), p. 71. 
Leaf about 2 inches long, spathulate, coriaceous, carinate, apex tridenticulate, dark green, narrowing 
below into a slender grooved petiole, sheathed at the base, blackish-purple. 
Peduncle, with pedicel, 2 or 24 inches long, terete, slender, pale green, ascending from the base of the 
petiole, with two pale green or blackish sheathing bracts; flowering bract about 4 inch long, carinate, 
apiculate, sheathing, with a minute rudimentary bud within at the base. 
Ovary } inch long, with six rounded angles, green, with minute black dots. 
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Sepals cohering nearly equally for about } inch, forming a wide tube, slightly gibbous beneath ; 
dorsal sepal ovate for about 4 inch, 3-nerved, cucullate ; lateral sepals cordate, 3-nerved, margins reflexed ; 
all bright clear yellow, with numerous minute crimson spots and crimson nerves, and terminating in 
slender greenish-yellow tails 12 or 2 inches long. 
Petals about 4 inch long, oblong, anterior margin winged and angled, apex dentate, pale yellow. 
Lip nearly } inch long, united to the foot of the column by an extremely flexible hinge, margins of 
basal half so much reflexed as to meet at the back, anterior half triangular, margins crenate, pale trans- 
parent yellow, with minute crimson spots, apex reflexed, covered with minute crimson hairs. 
Column about 4 inch long, broadly winged, very pale pink, spotted and bordered with rose-pink. a pex 
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dentate. 
HE only localities recorded as the habitat of I Wageneriana are in Venezuela, 
where it was discovered by Moritz in February, 1849, growing on trees in the 
German Colony of Tovar. In July of the following year it was found by Wagener at an 
elevation of 6,000 feet near Carabobo, a village about nine miles south-west of Valencia, 
in Venezuela. Wagener’s imported plants flowered at Brussels in 1851 under the care 
of Mons. Linden, for the first time in cultivation. From these specimens a drawing was 
published by Professor Reichenbach in 1858 in “ Xenia Orchidacea.” The woodeut in 
Paxton’s “Flower Garden” represents a flower with the sepals tightly closed together, 
and is evidently drawn from a faded specimen. 
Explanation of Plate, drawn from a plant at Newhattle Abbey : 
Fig, 1, petal, lip, and column, in natural position ;—1a, section of ovary ;—2, petal, inner side 3—2a, 
side of petal ;—3, lip, front view ;—3a, lip, back view ;—4, column ;-—4a, apex of column; ail enlarged ;— 
5, apex and section of leaf, natural size. 
