MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA CdLRULESCENS, 
[PuatTE 24. ] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Stems slender, tufted. Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, ten to twelve 
inches long, with a nerveless elongate oblong-spathulate blade, obtuse or somewhat 
acute at the apex, channelled at the base, keeled behind, of a very dark green 
colour, narrowed downwards into the stout petiole, which is three to four inches “ 
long, deeply grooved in front, and invested at the base by long membranous brownish 
sheaths. Scape a foot long or more, brown, covered below with three or four 
bluntish sheaths, the upper of which is distant from the flower and closely appressed. 
Flowers large, peculiar in form, richly coloured, the colour varying in different forms, 
typically of a brilliant magenta-crimson ; dorsal sepal elongate linear from a triangular 
hase, sub-erect or reflexed; Jateral sepals broadly semiovate, apiculate, connate to 
below the middle, deflexed, the tips approximate, all united below into a deeurved 
tube, which is yellow (in the allied M. Lindeni the tube is white) ; petals small, 
hidden within the tube, linear-oblong emarginate, the base auriculate on one side; 
lip also small, enclosed, clawed, tongue-shaped, cordate at the base. Colwmn rather 
longer than the lip, entire, not winged. 
Masbevatiia Harryana, Reichenbach, Jil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1871, 1421; 
Florist d& Pomologist, 1873, 169, with coloured figure; Belgique Horticole, 1878, 
t.21; Flore des Serres, t. 2250. 
MASpEvaLiia LInpEnt, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5990—fide Reichenbach. 
MASDEVALLIA LrinpeENI, var. Harryana, André, IMlustration Horticole, 3 ser., t. 142. 
Var. C@RULESCENS : flowers of a rich magenta-crimson, with a bluish-purple flush 
or bloom; otherwise as in the type. 
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Masbevatnia Harryana CERULESCENS, Hort. plurim.; Bull, Catalogue of New 
Plants, 1877, Pp 882% 
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We ought to be cordially grateful to our plant” collectors for introducing to 
European gardens so brilliant, varied, and charming a set ‘of epiphytal plants, as the 
Several showy ornamental, and pleasingly grotesque species of the genus Masdevalha. 
There are indeed but few Orchids that possess such bright colours as are found therein... 
A few years since we had but two species that were really worth growing, namely, 
M. coccinea, of an orange-scarlet colour, and M. tovarensis, pure white. Then 
came M. Lindeni, a charming plant with flowers of a rich magenta-purple colour: 
” Veitchiana, of which there are some very fine forms, made a fine contrast with 
~ glowing crange-searlet and bright yellow, the scarlet flushed with purple The most 
beautiful, however, of all the Masdevallias are the varieties of M. Harryana, the 
Colours of which—shades of magenta-crimson—are most intense and brilliant, many of 
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the forms being also distinct in shape. 
