MASDEVALLIA. 27 



A species introduced by Messrs. Sander and Co. from Costa Rica, 

 where it is said to be associated with MasdevaUia Rtjichenhachiana. 

 Its deep chocolate flowers with bright yellow tails render it distinct 

 among the small-flowered Masdevallias. The specific name is from 

 KaXoQ (kalos), ''beautiful/' and o vpa (oura), "a tail."* 



M. campyloglossa. 



Leaves linear-oblong, petiolate, obtuse, 3 inches long, very leathery. 

 Peduncles slender, shorter than the leaves, one-flowered. Flowers about 

 an inch across ; perianth tube very short ; sepals spreading, triangular, 

 acuminate, dull white with some purple spots at the margin, and three 

 purple veins ; petals oblong, mucronate, white ; lip longer than the 

 petals, linear-oblong, slightly tapering, bent, obscurely pubescent, white 

 with a purple luedian line, and a shorter one on each side of it. 

 MasdevaUia campyloglossa, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. X. (1878), p. 588. 



Acquired by us amongst other orchids at Stevens' Rooms in 1878, 

 no information being given respecting its origin. As it is still in 

 cultivation in several collections it could not be passed over in this 

 place. Its specific name refers to its bent labellum, from KaiinrvXog 

 (kampulos), ''bent," and yXioaaa (glossa), tongue — in orchidology, 

 "lip." 



M. Carderi. 



Leaves spathulate-lanceolate, 3 — 5 inches long. Scapes slender, pen- 

 dulous, with 2 — 3 appressed membraneous bracts, shorter than the leaves, 

 one-flowered. Flowers campanulate, French-white, blotched externally 

 around and near the base of the connate sepals with brown-purple, 

 the inner surface covered with short hairs, and spotted with brown-purple 

 at the base ; sepaline tails equidistant, 2 inches long, pale yellow, 

 sometimes spotted Avitli brown-purple ; petals linear-oblong, reflexed at 

 the tip, white with a purplish brown mid-line ; lip sub-i)anduriform in 

 outline, the basal half (hypochile) with a longitudinal cleft, the distal 

 half (epichile) shell-like, smooth on the inside. 



MasdevaUia Carderi, Echb. in Gard. Chron. XIX. (1883), p. 784. Id. XX. 



p. 181, icon. xyl. 



Introduced by Messrs. Shuttleworth and Carder in 1883, and 

 named after the junior partner of the firm, for many years a collector 

 of orchids in tropical America, and who discovered this pretty 

 MasdevaUia on the slopes of the western Cordillera of New Granada, 

 near Frontino. 



* The specific name is thence a substantive name, and if we interjiret rightly Art. 34 of the 

 Laws of Botanical Nomenclature, it should take a capital letter, but following custom, we leave 

 it as it is. So also campyloglossa, Jcontorjlossa, macrura, etc. 



