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sesquipollicare ; labium inferius latissimum medium usque bilobum, 

 lobi trianguli utrinque obtusati, apiculati ; tepala ligulata, binervia, 

 altero latere rectilinea, altero lobulato, 3 — 5 linearia ; labellum ligulatum, 

 apice dilatatum, obtusatum, integrum, androclinium margine cucullatum." 



" Bliithe 2/3 der Grtisse deren der M. coccinea ; getrocknet, 

 niennigrotli ; lebend, scharlach. Neu Granada." — Rcbb. f. in Boupl. 

 II. p. 115 (1854). 



Masdevallia militaris, Rchb. loc. cit. Id. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 193. Id. in Gard. 



Chron. XIII. (1880), p. 742. 



Discovered by Warscewicz on the eastern Cordillera of New 

 Granada, in the neighbourhood of Ocana, in 1849 — 50, but the 

 plants he collected died daring transmission to Europe, except a 

 few remains that were secured for the collection of the late Mr. 

 Sigismund Rucker, at West Hill, Wandsworth, where they continued 

 to be cultivated till the dispersion of the collection in 1875. It 

 is still one of the rarest of Masdevallias in the form in which it 

 was specifically recognised by the late Professor Reichenbach, who, 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle, XIII. (1880), p, 742, thus distinguishes 

 it from Masdevallia ignea, " its next critical species." * 



" It is very easily recognised by its extremely stiff, dark green leaf 



of great substance, standing on a petiole shorter than the blade, by 



a thicker peduncle, a much wider flower tube, and a wider limb . 



The hp is much broader and shorter (?) The plant does not flower 



very readily, while Masdevallia ignea, with its much broader and 



longer, lighter green, thinner, long-stalked leaves, and much less wide 



flowers, gives a profusion of bloom." 



Although we find no record of the plant having been imported 



since its first introduction, it was in cultivation in the collections 



of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge, and of the 



Baroness Rothschild, at Grunnersbury Park, at the date of the 



publication of the article just quoted, and may probably be still in 



those collections. We have also since met with plants under the 



name of Masdevallia coccinea, that conform to the characters described 



in the foregoing quotation. 



M. Mooreana. 



Leaves with inflated sheaths at their base, linear-oblong, 6 — 8 inches 

 long, very leathery. Scapes one-flowered, stoutisli, shorter than the 

 leaves, obscurely angulate, green spotted with didl purple, sheathed at 

 the base and middle. Tube broad, cylindric with a short gibbosity 



* Tlie description in the text is ei[vudly ;ipiiliealjle tu Masdccallia ujnca, Rchb. 



