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var— Gorgona. 



Sepals very hairy, tlie ground colour canary-yellow densely spotted with 

 deep red-purple except towards the inner margin of the lateral two where 

 the spots are more scattered, and at the base of the upper one where 

 they are replaced by purple dots ; lip tinged with pale orange-red. 

 M. Chimsera Gorgona, supra. M. Gorgona, Hort. 



var. — Roezlii. 



Siepaline spots blackish and very densely placed, leaving but small traces 

 of the pale ground colour, pubescence very close ; lip with a somewhat 

 broader and shorter epichile than in other forms, white or faintly tinted 

 with rose, the raised lines within the sac bright rose.* 



M. Chimera Roezlii. supra. M. Roezlii, Rchb. Xen. Orcli. II. p. 196, t. 186, 



fi£t. 2. 



SUb-Var. — rulnu (Williams' Orch. Alh. VI. t. 243), spots chocolate-red 

 and not so dense as in the type. 



var.— senilis. 



Flowers among the smallest of the MasdevaUia CJu'rjuera forms ; the 

 pubescence on the inner surface of sepals long and whitish, the spots 

 blackish red on a pale yellow ground ; lip white witli an orange spot 

 within the sac on the basal side 



M. Chimajra senilis, supra. M. senilis, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XXIV. (1885), 

 p. 489. 



var. — severa. 



Peduncles erect or sub-erect, shorter, and bearing smaller flowers 

 than the typical fc>rm ; sepals narrower and more acuminate, pale 

 yellow densely spotted with chocolate-red, pubescence close. 



M. Chimpera severa, supra. M. severa, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. III. (1875), p. 170. 



var. — Wallisii. 



Sepals with hispid pubescence, whitish or pale yellow more or less 

 covered with brown-purple warty spots ; tails red-purple ; lip Avhite 

 sometimes yellowish within the sac. 



M. Chimera Wallisii, supra. M. Wallisii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. IV. (1875), 



p. 258. Id. XXIII. (1885), p. 270 (stupenda). M. Chimsera, £ot. Hag. t. 6152. 



Eevue hort. 1881, p. 130. Fl. Mag. n. s. t. 149. 



var. — Winniana. 



Flowers large ; sep ils elongated and more acuminate than in the 

 variety Roezlii which it closely approaches, and Avith the tails more 

 slender ; pubescence very close, spots dense and blackish ; at the base 

 of the upper sepal is a yellow transverse band dotted Avith purple. 



M. Chiiufera Winniana, supra. M. Winniana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XVI. (1881), 

 p. 198. 



* One of the characters relied on by Reichenbach to distinguish this form specificallj' from 

 his MasdevaUia Chiriurra A\'as the entire edj^e ot the saccate limb of the lip, but we have failed 

 to detect this peculiarity in any of the plants seen by us in cultivation under the name of 

 M, Roezlii ; in fact, in all the forms Ave have examined, the margin is more or less denticulate. 



