MASDEVALLIA. 485 



(the usual Chimaera of gardens), but the colours are much brighter, and the 

 flowers much larger, having also a very long narrow lip. A form of this plant 

 has been flowered by Messrs. Backhouse & Son, measuring 16 inches across the 

 blossom. — Xeiv Grenada. 



M, CIVILIS, Echh. f. — This is a species seldom seen. It was brought to 

 this country, we believe, for the first time in 1862, and was flowered for the 

 first time in 1864. It is not a very showy plant although exceedingly inter- 

 esting, but it emits a very offensive odour, which, however, is only perceptible 

 on close contact. The stems are densely clustered, each bearing a single 

 fleshy leaf, which is narrow, oblong, some 5 or 6 inches long, deep green, and 

 persistent ; scape short, bearing a solitary cylindrical flower ; the tips of the 

 sepals furnished with short greenish-yellow tails, which are stifl! and recurved ; 

 the sepals yellowish-green on the inside, stained with deep purple at the base, 

 above whit'h they are freely dotted with purple ; lip long and narrow, freckled 

 all over with purple dots. Flowers in the spring and summer months. — 

 Peru. 



Fig.— But. J/ag., t. 5176. 



Nl. COCCINEA, Linden. — A charming little plant of compact growth, with 

 tufts of leathery oblong-obtuse dark-green three-nerved leaves, the stalk-like 

 base somewhat terete and channelled ; the peduncles are 1 foot high, and the 

 flowers solitary, the perianth with a short curved tube, which with the upper 

 linear-subulate sepal is rosy-pink, the elliptic falcate lower sepals of a glowing 

 scarlet. Dr. Lindley described it as " a most charming thing with flowers as 

 red as a soldier's coat." This little gem has often been sent to this country, 

 but the plants have either been dead on arrival, or have soon died through 

 being subjected to too great heat, and other bad treatment. We have however 

 now found out the proper method of growing them, though it is still a rare 

 species. A variety of M. ignea is often sold for this plant, but it is totally 

 distinct from that species, the foliage being much stouter and shorter, and the 

 flowers larger. — New Grenada : Pamplona. 



Fig. — Gard. f/nwi., 1S6S, p. 75,with fig. ; /</., N.S., xvi. p. 236, 'f. 49 ; Xcnia OrcJi.,i. 

 t. 74. S. 1-2 ; (rurtiii flora, t. 8?0 ; Mural Mag., 2ntl ser., t. 410, f . 2 ; Woolaard's Masd., 

 iii. t. 24. 



M. COLIBRI.— See M. Ephippium. 



M. CORIACEA, Lindl. — This old species was discovered by Hartweg in 

 1845 in the' Eastern Cordilleras of New Grenada at an altitude of 9,000 feet. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate, 5 to 6 mches long, somewhat fleshy, green, spotted 

 with purple on the lower part; sepals greenish-yellow, irregularly spotted 

 on the longitudinal veins; petals whitish, with a median purple stripe. — 

 U. S. of Colombia. 



Fig.— Zhideiila, vii. t. 295 ; M'oolwurd's Masd., iii. t. 25. 



M. CORNICULATA, Bchh. /. — Flowers about the size of M. coriacea, dark 

 purple. — U. S. of Colombia. 



Fig.— Wooluard's Masd., ii. t. 12. 



