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sessile lip, with a three-lobed limb, the front lobe of which is lineai' 

 spathulate. The only species is a native of Java and Borneo. 



Culture. — The treatment is in every respect similar to that of 

 Anoedochilus, which see. 



M. JAVANICA.— See Anoeciochilus Javaxicuji. 



M. MARMORATA.-See Dossinia Marmorata. 



M. PETOLA, Lindl. — One of the finest of the Anoectochiloid group, which 

 has the further merit of being very free-growing, and easy to increase. Of this 



there are two varieties, one inferior to the other, 



but both of them handsome ; it grows about 



4 inches high, and has oval acute leaves 3 inches 



long, and 2 inches broad, the ground colour 



lustrous, and resembling light-coloured green 



velvet, enriched with well-defined netted lines 



and bands of a pale or yellowish hue, deepening 



to a golden line, and covering the whole surface ; 



^^^ ^ ■ the flowers grow in racemes, terminating an 



erect scape 8 to 10 inches high, and are pale reddish-brown outside, whitish 



within. It is a very charming species. — Java; Borneo. 



Fig.— A>»j« Orch., i. t. 96, f. 1 ; Blwme, Oreh. Arch. Iiid., t. 31, f. 2 ; Id., t. 30. 

 Syn. — Anoectochilus -Pc'tola ; Anoeetoehilus Vc'itchii ; Xeottia Pctola. 



MACSiOCHILTJS . See MlLTO.NIA SPECTABILIS. 



MASDEVALLIA, B«w ei ru.von. 

 (Tribe Epldendreae, subtribc Pleurothallcae.) 

 Of this very interesting genus of cool Orchids, we have many charm- 

 ing and beautiful species, thanks to the efforts of our Orchid collectors. 

 Some of the species are very distinct and brilliant in colour, which 

 I'enders them especially valuable for decorative or exhibition purposes 

 — we refer to such sorts as M. coccinea, M. Tdndeni, M. Yeitehiana, 

 M. Harryana, M. Bavisii, and others, which furnish colours that add 

 much to the brilliancy of the display in our Orchid houses when they 

 are in flower, and enrich our collections by the contrast they afford to 

 other types of this wonderfully varied family. The plants are tufted- 

 growing epiphytes without pseudobulbs, but having a creeping rhizome, 

 from which the short one-leaved stems grow up, the leaves being thick 

 and leathery in texture, and tapered at the base into a petiole ; the 

 peduncles which grow up with the petioles are one- or less frequently 



