74 MASDEVALtilA. 



(jtakden Hybrids. 

 Masdevallia caudata-Estradee. 



Parentage expressed by the name. 



Upper sepal a nearly uniform rose-purple, yellowish at the base, paler 

 on the outside and with a yellowish keel ; lateral sepals soft violet-purple, 

 paler at the apex ; tails 2 inches long, orange-yellow ; petals and lip white, 

 the latter with minute lilac spots ; apex of column maroon-purple. 



Masdevallia caudata-Estradse, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. V. s. 3. (1889), p. 714. 



Raised hj Seden at our nursery. A very floriferous and handsome 

 hybrid, with flowers much resembling Masdevallia caudata Shuttleworthi! 

 in size and shape, Ijut also approaching M. Estrad<e in some of its 

 structural details. 



M. Ohelsoni. 



M. amabilis x M. Veitcliiana. 

 Perianth tube bright cinnabar red, the veins crimson-purple ; free 

 portion of upper sepal oval, concave, contracted into a slender tail 

 2 inches long, brilliant orange-red studded with crimson papillas ; lateral 

 sepals connate to beyond the middle and terminating in two convergent 

 tails coloured like the upper one, the papillae frequently aggregated in 

 a broad band on the inner half of each. 



Masdevallia Ohelsoni, Rchb. in Gard. Chrou. Xlll. (1880^, p. 554. 



var.— splendens. 



Flowers larger, of a deeper orange-red, especially the inner half of 

 each of the lateral sepals, the crimson papillae denser and more brilliant. 

 M. Chelsoni splendens, Veitch ex. Rolfe id Gard. Chron. V. s 3(1889), p. 619. 



Raised by Seden at our nursery, and especially interesting as 

 being the fir.st hybrid Masdevallia raised in Europe. As a decorative 

 plant its flowers rank among the most brilliant known ; " the colour is 

 indescribably rich orange, crimson, rose, lilac, or a combination of all 

 these, according to the direction in which the light falls upon the 

 flower. No artist could render the colour of the flower faithfully, still 

 more impossible would it be to describe it in words."* The variety was 

 raised from the reversed cross and between two finer varieties of the 

 same species that produced the type. 



M. Courtauldiana.f 



M. rosea X M. caudata Shuttlewurthii. 

 " Upper part of perianth tube and triangular part of the upper sepal 

 with its tail light brownish red, the three principal nerves keeled and 



* Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 222. 

 + Not seen by us. 



