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arean gong gene (Hex. Masiuvaiie cucullata. (&. C. 1883, 
žo 532: D. et 6977.) Gt Iin xix. 592.) G. À fine species with glossy 
shee ie ge M. each es with greenish blackish-pu rple fl. whitish inside at 
sulphur-coloure spotted with base and with “Rg dey of the tails 
black an nd with black tails to the yellow. Colom 
ovate sep. ; pet. orange with two black 
spots and a tumour. Colombia Masdevallia ee. CGR. C. 
$ Maria 
Masdevallia Chimera. (¢. C. 1881, maioroklapiaii is, Reichb. £] 
xv. 463: xvi. 113, T. 26 ~ 0. A. t. 
103.) G: The plant usually waa eee ar ogee! ti = 1888, 
vated under this name and ur 8, 1888, 
at B. M. t. 6152 is its var. Wallisii ; Tey. = Ze ‘dual tiai ami 
h ype M. Chimera is distin- shini i : the 
_ guished from this by its very long cup-shaped p: ight brown densely 
acuminate tapering triangular se spotted with dark rown, ssy, 
10-12 long, blackish, dotted and very dark brown inside; pet. and li 
hairy, and by the lip having no angle ochreous, the lip with 3 brown lines 
at its base. Colombia. on the front lobe and numerous spots 
on the side lobes. Costa Rica. 
— Var. Go —— (Veitch Man. 
Masder, 31.) G. A var. with the ee peng (G. C.1896, xix. 
round colour of the fl. eh ape 40.) G. den hybrid between M. 
densely spotted wit th red-pur and macrura Bey y tovarensis. 
the lip tinged with pale ENE 
LSyn. Y. Gorgona, Hort. ] Masdevallia dayana. (G. C; 1880, 
L. flat, dark green 
— Var. vanneriana. (0. R. 1893, oe. aE beneath, 43 in. by 3 in. 
206.) G. The result of re M. The upper sep. yellowish white, with 
Chimera Wallisii with MW. Chimera seven membranous keels s with 
Roezlii, urple e inferior se 
orange, with some purple-brown spots 
Masdevallia coeoines. (GA. t. 870.) and borders towards the a [ Cryp- 
spathulate-oblong. faphoranti us dayanus, Rolfe. | Colom- 
Sree aes es slender, 1 ft. long, bia 
1-flowe; e in diam., deep 
scarlet with a es ¢ gloes lower lip meer demissa. (G. C. oa 
deeply parted, its lobes oblong, sud- ii. 9. y 
denly > ons to a short point; thick. p earr much yerai ont 
upper arching forward, linear- the 1l., 1-flowered. Fl. with the upper 
agar ia trop aaah ban Colombia. sep. yellow, wıth 3 brownish purple 
lines, and the side sep. brownish 
ar. conchiflora. a ‘citch Man. purple; tails yellow, the lower ones 
ee a) HA k ith larger descending, the upper one incumbent ; 
the late C sep, broader, sep. triangular, the lateral ones 
rounder, an pire connate and much a sect than the 
prad aii Reichb. f. ae conchiflora, dorsal one. Costa R 
Hort. ] 
Masdevallia eclyptrata. a f ana 
Benmersi sae gps (4. 6 577.) G. Somewha 
1878, ix. 72.) Fl. as large as M. blin sna x. cucullata, with A ae. 
coriacea, of i dark a oe yellow 
colour ; pet. terminating in an ascend- 
ing warty ser caiiian ool. Colombia. _—— eon (G@. CL 1880, 
| TT8.) Rhizome creeping, pro- 
Masdevallia costaricensis. (G. Ca duit i k ‘intervals of about 1 in. 
1890, viii. 183 ; Gf. 1890, 647.) G. A The blades of the l. scarcely more 
ase dense nsely Gh. Ibe — ant with than } in. long and ł in. wide; the 
spathulate l. and wered | peduncles vr nearly a span high and 
scapes; the fl. white, with So bear two three fl., which are 
tails, Ccsta Rica. apparently red. Colombia 
Masdevallia courtauldiana. (@. C. | Masdevallia ellisiana (4. C. 1889, 
1889, v. 200 ; arere Man. Maider. 14) -yi 154; Veitch on AN sp g-poeate 75.) G. 
Ag | raised from A hybri id raised f M. harryana and 
rosea cae N, Aa. M, ignea. 
