482 oechid-ghower's manual. 



lobes being of a bright rosy-carmine, the upper one triangular, terminating in 

 an erect filiform appendage (tail), and the side ones broader oblique ovate 

 decurved, and ending in similar appendages. This is a very free-blooming 

 species, and although somewhat small-flowered it is nevertheless very pretty 

 in a mass. Flowers in summer. — Feru. 



Fig. — Woolward's Masd., 1. 1. 1 ; Veiteh's Man. Orch. PL, v. p. 24. 



M. AMABILIS LINEATA, iin^ere.— Equally as free flowering as the typical 

 plant, and even more beautiful ; the throat and upper sepal are orange-yellow, 

 the upper sepal being streaked with three narrow straight purple lines, the 

 lower sepals are also streaked each with three broader curved lines of purple. 

 Blooms in May. — Peru. 



FlG.—Bev. ITort. Selge, 188.8, p. 25 (plate) ; nil. Hort., 3i'd ser., t. 196. 



M. ARMINII, Bchb.f. — A pretty little species in the way of M. Wageneriana, 

 the flowers being larger and of a fine rose-colour tinged with purple ; it was 

 first introduced in 1864 by Schlim. — New Chrenada. 



Fig. — Woolward's Masd., iii. t. 21 ; Journ. of Sort., 1891, xsii. p. 409, f. 74 ; Gard. 

 Mag., 1893, June 17th (suppl.j. 



Nl. ASTUTA, Itchh. f. — This species is allied to M. Oaskelliana, and was 

 collected by Mr. Carder in Costa Rica. " It has leaves nearly a span long, 

 petiolate, oblong acute, nearly 1 inch long in their widest part, the sepals 

 distinctly triangular with brown tails, surpassing the length of the rest of the 

 sepal at least twice, simply brown, and yellow at the apex and centre outside, 

 ochre-coloured with numerous brown blotches inside, hispid there all over ; 

 petals rather blunt ; anterior saccate part of the lip ascending at the top, 

 toothletted at the side, with three longitudinal keels, and numerous small 

 transverse bars outside the column with a long beak " (Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 N.S., 1886, xxvi. p. 584). — Costa Rica. 



M. ATTENUATA, Bchb. — This although scarcely showy is yet remarkable 

 as being one of the few white-flowered species. It is a dwarf, tufted plant, with 

 oblong ovate, spreading leaves, which are petiolate at the base, some 4 inches 

 long, leathery, deep green, persistent ; scape shorter, or about as long as the 

 leaves ; flowers solitary, downy on the inside, these are white with long yellow- 

 tails; lip small, yellow. Flowers in the winter months. — Costa Rica. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 6273. 



M. BACKHOUSIANA.— See M. Chimaeea Backhousiana. 



M. BELLA, Mchh.f. — ^A very beautiful and distinct species of the Clmnaera 

 group, discovered by Mr. Wallis. The leaves are densely tufted, cuneate-oblong» 

 with truncate bracts sheathing the stalkless base ; the flowers are produced 

 upon drooping peduncles, and on the inner surface are yellow, irregularly and 

 densely spotted with purplish-brown on the dorsal sepal and the outer half of 

 the lateral sepals, the tails being from 3 to 4 inches long, and also of deep 

 purplish-brown ; the base of the dorsal sepal and the interior sides of the lateral 

 ones are ochre-yellow ; the reniform clawed lip is pure white, and the lamina 

 entirely covered with radiating lamellae ; the exterior surface of the flowers is 



