MASDEVALLIA. 



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1880, when M. Lehinanu, after much toil and many privations, 

 succeeded in reaching the elevated region to which the plant is 

 restricted. By carefully packing the plants he collected, and by a 

 rapid transport across the low-lying hot country that inter \renes 

 between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, a transit that has proved 

 fatal to thousands of beautiful orchids, M. Lehmann had the good 

 fortune to ship his plants in good condition, and which reached 

 England alive. Masdevallia rosea is a most floriferous species, and 

 a large plant in full bloom is a very showy object ; its long 

 perianth tube is peculiar. 



Masdevallia rosea. 



M. Schlimii. 



Leaves elliptic-obovate, 12 or more inches long, and 3 inches 

 broad. Scapes longer than the leaves, racemose, 5 — 8 flowered, the 

 pedicel of each sheathed by a whitish, membraneous bract. Flowers 

 with a vertical diameter of about 1\ inches, exclusive of the tails ; 

 tube short and open, light orange-yellow above ; upper sepal triangular, 

 concave, light yeUow ; lateral sepals connate to beyond the middle, 

 broadly ovate, the free portion divergent, yellow, densely mottled with 

 brownish purple papillae ; tails about 2 inches long, golden yellow ; 

 petals linear-oblong, white ; lip also linear-oblong, pointed and reflexed 

 at the apex. Column white with two purple stripes on the side 

 opposite the lip. 



