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Plate 120. 



MASDEVALLIA TO V ARE N SIS 



The Tovar Masdevallia 



Gen> Cha/r. Perigoniifoliola exteriora in tubum connata^ aplce libero longe lingulata; irdcnora 

 libera nana, Labelliim cum columnd articulatum^ sessile^ oblongum, concavum, nanum. Culumna 

 incurva, semiteres. Anthera bilocularis^ terminalis^ opercularis. FolJlma 2, integra, caudiculls 

 duabus filiformibusj elastice replicatis^ glandulre conicae affixa. — Hcrbae Peruviana, cpl^'lnif^; 

 rhizomate pm^o repentG ; foliis ohlongo-lanceolatisj hasi in jpetiolvm migitstatis; scapis radicallhus 

 iintjloris; floribus Tnajusciilis. JEndL 



Masd 



culo ancipiti bifloro subseqiialibus, bracteis membranacels cucullafig^ Bi^palis oonnafis^ supivniu 



an s tarn 



nuUo ultra cnnjiatis floiu 



urvis 



margine utrlnque emarginato acuto, nervis 3 promluulis lateralibus clcvatis crisLaLJs, anrlro- 

 clinii raarg'inc Jcutato. Reichenhach Jil . qiiihuiidum mutatis. 



Masdevallia Tovarensis. Reich, fil. in Bonjjlatulia, v. 3. p. 21; v. 2. p. 23. 

 Masdevallia caudiJa. Klotxsch, Karsten. 



The genus Mcasclevallia was specially selected by Dr. T .indlcy, wlicn announcing 



the preparatioa of his 'Folia Orchidacea,' to illustrate the astonishing progrc.-^^ tlinf 

 liad been made in our knowledge of Orchids since the publication, a quarter of a cen" 

 tury before, of his ' Genera and Species.' In the latter work only tlirre Masdcynllias 

 were described, though the number had risen to nearly forty at the time above referred 

 to, and it lias been largely augmented since then. But however plentiful the Masdc- 

 vallias in their native wilds, they have made their way slowly and rclnrtaiitly to the 

 gardens of Europe, in which scarcely half-a-dozen— and these among the most insi^;- 

 nificant of the race— have as yet produced flowers. The species, however, that is 

 represented in the accompanying Plate will convey a more adequate notion of the 

 ttractiveness of its family, and may well challenge the attention, not of the botanist 

 merely, but of every cultivator of rare and beautiful plants. 



^lasdcmlUaTovarcnffis, as its name implies, is a native of Tt)var, in rolnmbia. 

 where it was discovered at an elevation of several thousand feet, and ^f^d to Orrmnny 

 many years ago, and it was from tlie latter country that Mr. Kuckcr received tlie plant 

 from which, in iVovemb«M-, 1865, the present figure was obtained. In Mr. IJuckns 

 collection it passed under the name of i/. Candida, \\hiQh, as Keichcnbach hn. rnrrcrtly 

 pointed out, was erroneously given by the late Dr. Klot/:>ch to a plant that li^d aliculy 



