34 MASDEVALLTA. 



lateral sepals connate t(^ about one-third of their length, semi-ovate, 

 oblique, tapering to approximate tips ; petals and lip included in the 

 tube, the former linear-oblong, auricled at the base on the front side, 

 the latter tongue-shaped, cordate at base. 



Masdevallia coccinea, Linden ex. Lindl. Orcli. Lind. p. 5 (1846). Gaid. Chron. 



1868, p. 75. Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 197, t. 74. M. Lindenii, Andre in Illiis. hort. 



1870, p. 226, t. 42. Fl. Mag. n. s. I. t. 28. Jennings' Orc7i. t. 17. 



var. — conchiflora. 



Flowers larger, -with the lateral sepals broader, more rotund, concave, 

 or shell-like ; in colour like the first introduced form. 



M. coccinea conchiflora, supra. M. Harryana conchiflora, Hort. Bull. 



var.— Harryana. 



Flowers variable in size and colour, and distinguished from the 

 typical Masdevallia coccinea chiefly by the two lateral sepals that are 

 dilated into broad oval-falcate blades, terminating in acuminate tips 

 which are turned towards eacli other, the two forming an almost 

 orbicular liody, varying in size from Ih to 3 inches in diameter, and in 

 colour from deep sanguineous piu'ple to pale yellow or milk-white ; 

 sepaline tube orange, yellow. 



M. coccinea Harryana, supra. M. Harryana, Echb. in Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 1421. 



Fl. Mag. 1871, t. 555. Fl. and Poviol. 1873, p. 169. Bclg. hort. 1873, t. 21. Van 



Houtte's Fl. des Scrrcs, XXI. t. 2250. M. Lindenii Harryana, Illus. liort. 1873, p. 



167, t. 142. Bot. Mag. t. 5990 (Lindenii). 



SUb-vars. — armeniaca (Williams' Orch. Alh. V. t. 224), deep apricot- 

 yelloAv with red veins ; atrosanguinea {Id. III. t. 105), deep 

 crimson-purple; cojridescen-s (Id. I. t. 21), magenta-crimson toned 

 with bluish purple ; decora {Id. VIII. t. 344), light magenta- 

 purple with deeper veins ; Denisonii {Fl. Mcuj. n. s. 1873, t. 79), 

 syn. Bull's blood, deep sanguineous purple ; hefa (Gard. Chron. XL 

 (1879), p. 716), rosy purple; miniata (Williams' Orch. AW. III. 

 t. 110), vermilion-red with crimson veins; lateritia (Hort.), 

 brilliant magenta-purple ; tricolor (Hort.), magenta-crimson, striped 

 with maroon; versicolor (Gard. Chron. XVI. (1881), p. 306), 

 deep magenta-crimson veined and shaded with purple-crimson, 

 carmine, and rose, etc., etc. 

 Maadevallia coccinea was first discovei'ecl in 1842 — 3 ^'on the 

 southern slopes of the high mountains near Pamplona, at 9,500 

 feet elevation/' by Linden, from whose herbarium specimen, now 

 preserved at Kew, it was described by Dr. Lindley in the work 

 quoted, above. It subsequently became confused with M. militaris, 

 discovered some years later by Warscewicz, from whom Dr. Lindley 

 received dried flowers and. a coloured, drawing which he affixed, in 

 error, to Linden's type specimen. Still later the name became 

 mixed up with M. ignea, both in British and continental collections, 



