MASDEVALLIA HARRYANA MINIATA. 



[Plate 110.] 



JsCative of J^eiv Grenada 



Epiphytal. Stems sliort, tufted, slender. Leaves persistent, of leatliery texture, 

 the blade spathulate, channelled at the base, keeled behind, tapering down into th(^ 



Scape 



the 



petiole, which is invested by whitish brown membranaceous sheathing bracts, 

 issuing from the bract, investing the leaf base, radical, about a foot higli, slifT, pale 

 green, thickly striate-blotched with purple, with one or two distant sheathing bracts, 

 and surmounted by the curved six-ribbed ovar}% which is dotted with purple. 

 Flowers remarkably brilliant in colour; tuhe about a quarter of an inch wide and 

 upwards of half an inch long, orange-yellow, the open tube forming a yellow eye to 



flower ; dorsal sepal filiform, recurved, two inches long ; later-al sepals deflexed 

 falcate-ovate acute, fully two inches long by one inch wide, of a bright vermilion- 

 red flushed with scarlet, and having the principal ribs of a rich deep crimson ; 

 petals minute, oblong- obtuse, white tinged with purple ; lip still shorter, the tij) 

 recurved yellow, the disk with a deep furrow between two obtuse ridges. Column 

 white, shorter than the petals, the winged margin extending upwards into a tootlicd 

 hood, 



Masdevallia Haeryaxa MINIATA, WUUams and Moore, siipra. 



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Tliis 



IS a 



most cliariniiig variety 



colour in this section; it is the 



of Masdevallia Ilarryana, being quite a new 

 most distinct and beautiful for its Tightness of 



hue 



any 



one 



liich we have not yet seen developed to such perfection of brilliancy in 



other 



iety. It may also be noted, that when 



mixe 



other fo 



of 



various colours it blends with them most charmingly 



beautiful it is will be 



from 



fio^ure 



■fe 



m 



How exceedingly bright and 

 rever, it has been extremely 



difficult for our artist to imitate the natural tint of the flow 



Our- sketch w^as 



taken from a well-bloomed plant in the 

 W. Lee, Esq., of Downside, Leatherhead. 



large collection of 



Masdevall 



gro 



wu 



It is 



very rare as> well as showy 



and we shall be glad to see more of it, as it will ; 



'allia Harryana miniata is a dwarf comj 



dly be 



Masde 



after 



plant, with 



foling 



about 



ht inches 



o"h 



of 



a bright 



dark 



g 



colour. The fl 



are sc 



arlct- 



Vermilion with 



a brig 



y 



eye 



It blooms 



during 



May and J 



;1 lasts 



about four weeks in full beauty 



This rjlant will thrive 



iler the treatment 



:led for the forms of the 



Harryana section in our first volume (Plate 



here all the necessary p 



will be found 



Mr 



Woolford, the gardener at Downside, is a most successful 



cultivator, and has under his 



charg 



a 



house 



arly 100 feet long filled 



ith 



