60 MASDEVALLIA. 



Discovered by Gustav Wallis near Frontino, in New Granada, at 

 8,000 feet elevation, and introduced with other saccolabiate Masde- 

 vallias collected by him in the same locality in 1873-4. 



M. Reichenbachiana. 



Leaves oblauceolate, acute, 6 inches long, inchidiug the erect channelled 



foot-stalks. Scapes slender, erect, longer than the leaves, 2 — 4 flowered, 



the flowers produced in succession from })edicels springing from the 



joint Ijclow the ovary of the next older. Tube funnel-shaped, bent, 



reddish crimson above, pale yellow beneath ; free portion of upper 



sepal triangular, yellowish white, contracted into a slender tail 1| 



inches long ; lateral sepals deflexed, connate to one-half of their length, 



and then suddenly contracted into slender awns, Avhich cross each other 



at their extremities, yellowish white ; petals, lip, and column minute, 



and concealed within the tube. 



Masdevallia Reichenbachiana, Endres, ex. Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron. IV. (1885), 

 p. 257. Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 360 (aurantiaca). 



A native of Costa Rica, where it was first detected in 1878 by 



Endres, who sent living plants to Europe shortly afterwards, and 



at whose desire it was named in compliment to the late Professor 



Reichenbach, of Hamburg. 



M. rosea. 



Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 4 — 6 inches long, narrowed below into 



erect channelled foot-stalks. Scapes slender, a little longer than the 



leaves, one-flowered. Tube 1 — 1| inches long, angulate and compressed, 



reddish above, orange-yellow at the base ; free portion of upper sepal 



filiform, 2 inches long, red above, yellow on the inner side, the lateral 



two dilated into ovatedanceolate, concave, rosy carmine lobes, which are 



connate to about one-third of their length from the base, and terminate 



in short red tails ; petals and lip reduced to minute ligulate white 



bodies, the latter with a tuft of blackish hairs at the apex. Column 



arched, white. 



Masdevallia rosea, Lindl. in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. XV. p. 257 (1845). Rchb. 

 in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 192 (1861). Id. Otia. Bot. Hamb. p. 14. Id. Gard. Chron. 

 XIII. (1880), p. 648. Id. XVII, p. 628. Bclg. hort. 1882, p. 65. 



Discovered by Hartweg about the year 1842, at a great elevation 



on the Andes, in the neighbourhood of Loxa, in Ecuador; from the 



dried specimens brought home by him, it was described by Dr. 



Lindley in the publication quoted above. It was afterwards 



found by Dr. Jameson, for many years in the service of the 



Government of Ecuador as Professor of Botany and Chemistry in 



the University of Quito. Nothing more was seen or heard of it till 



