RESTKEPIA. 



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The four forms described below are the most interestinar of the 

 group known to us. Their cultural treatment is the same as that 

 of Masdevallia. 



Restrepia antennifera. 



Stems 2 — 4 inches high, clothed with loosely imbricating spotted 

 sheaths. Leaves ovate, acute, 2^ — 3| inches long, leathery. Peduncles 

 slender, longer than the leaves. FloAvers large for the genus ; upper 



Restrepia antenuifera. 



sepal lanceolate, tapering into a filiform tail, pale yellow dotted with 

 red ; connate lateral sepals oblong, concave, boatdike, bifid at the apex, 

 bright ochreous yellow densely spotted witli brown-pur[)le, the spots 

 arranged in close-set rows ; petals like the upiier sepal but smaller ; 



