13 
foe} 
25 
Fie Vit: 
MASDEVALLIA x HENRIETTAE xranzt. 
MISS HENRIETTA AMES’S MASDEVALLIA. 
MASDEVALLIA. Vide Lindenia, I, Pp: 35. 
Masdevallia X Henriettae. Hybrida inter M. igneam var. et M. Shuttleworthi artificiosa fecundatione producta. 
Masdevallia X Henriettae KRANZL., in Gard. Chron., XIII, 1893, p. 740. 
>a his graceful hybrid appeared in 1893 in the celebrated collection of 
ae Frep. L. Ames Esq. of Longwater, North Easton, Mass., U. S. A., and 
ami D' KrAnziin described it soon afterwards as follows : “ We received 
three flowers, the general habit of which is very different, in spite of the fact that 
they were offsprings from seeds of the same vessel. The foliage is scarcely of 
any interest, but the leaves are shorter stalked than ordinarily in M. ignea; the 
flowers are in size quite intermediate, in general appearance more in the way of 
M. Shuttleworthii than of M. ignea. Certainly the range of variability of the 
flowers is a very great one, and we have at hand two types, one of which is 
nearer to M. Shutileworthiit, whilst the other inclines not to M. ignea itself, but 
shows a form which if found in a wild state would have induced botanists to 
establish a new species. Whilst the upper sepal is reduced in size, but with the 
peculiar swinging of the upright tail of M. Shuttleworthii; the lateral ones are 
more lengthened, more oblong in circumference, with tails half as long as in 
M. Shuttleworthii. The tube or calyx is sharp-keeled above, and somewhat longer, 
also the three veins of the lateral sepals are more visible as in M. Shuttleworthii. 
The colour is very difficult to describe, all the flowers at hand being different; 
yellowish tints suffused with very tender purplish stripes and a purplish base of 
the tube, is not a very sufficient or exhaustive description, but a more specialising 
one would hardly give a better idea of the general impression of this very pretty 
and attractive flower. , 
We have little to add to the foregoing remarks and the accompanying plate 
will give a much better idea of this hybrid than any written description. 
A glance at the picture will show that the plant reproduced by our artist has 
more rosy flowers than that described by D* Kranziin, and somewhat favours 
M. ignea, being at the same time very attractive. 
A large number of hybrid Masdevallias are now in existence, and from this 
fact it is pleasing to conclude that this genus is at last being raised from the 
unmerited disfavour under which it has struggled for so many years. One may 
also presume that artificial hybridisation is easily effected in this genus, notwith- 
