7C 



MASDEVALLIA. 



broadly cylindric, gibbous below ; upper sepal triangular, contracted 

 into a stoutish tail 2 inches long, ochreous yellow, very smooth and 

 shining without, minutely dotted with red-brown within ; the connate 

 lateral sepals oblong, bent downwards, terminating in stoutish tails and 

 coloured like the upper one ; petals linear-oblong, greenish white ; lip 

 sub-quadrate, narrow at the apex, and covered with chocolate-red, close- 

 set papillcP. Column trigonal, curved, yellowish green. 



Masdevallia velifera, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. I. (1874), p. 406 (name only). Id. in 

 II. p. 1>8. Id. in X. (1878), p. 364. Id. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 745, icon, xyl. 



Masdevallia velifera. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



A species with large malodorous flowers sent by Patin from 

 New Granada to Mr, B, S, Williams, in 1874. It is abundant in 

 the neighbourhood of Ocaila_, where a few years later it was 

 gathered by Shuttleworth while collecting orchids for Mr, Bull. 

 Masdevallia velifera is one of a group of coriaceous Masdevallias 

 represented in British collections by M. elephanticeps, M. Gargantua 

 and M. Mooreana, which may possibly be brought into closer 

 connection with each other hereafter by the appearance of intermediate 

 forms. 



