MASDEVALLIA. 



487 



Named in honour of the late J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham, and first flowered by 

 him in 1875.— 17. 8. of Colombia. 



FiG.—Gard. C//to«.,n.s., 1886, 

 xxvi. p. i28, f. 86. 



Syn. — Ilfstrepla Daijuna ; 

 Cnjjitophoraiithns Bayaimm. 



M. DENISONI. — See 



Hasryana Denisoniana. 



M. 



MASDEVALLIA DATANA. 



(From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') 



M. ELEPHANTICEPS, Bchh. 

 f. et Warsc. — A. species of bold 

 and striking character, having 

 tufts of acute, cuneate-spathu- 

 late leathery leaves 8 or 9 

 inches long, and stout pedun- 

 cles a foot high, each bearing 

 a solitary horizontal flower 3 

 to 4 inches long of peculiar 

 form, and which has been 

 compared to an elephant's 

 head. The tubular portion of 

 the perianth is produced into 

 a chin at the lower base, and 

 with the lower sepals is of a 



dark rich crimson-purple, pale purple on the outer side, united.for about one- 

 third of their length, the tail lobe continuations yellow on the inner surface, 

 and gently curving upwards ; the upper sepal, which stands nearly parallel to 

 the lower one, is bright yellow both inside and out, separated much lower down, 

 the three-cornered basal part gradually narrowing into the yellow tail, which 

 has a slight upward curve ; the small lip is obtusely rhomboid, its front half 

 densely papillose. The variety named pachysepala has the tails of the sepals, 

 broader. — New Grenada. 



Fig. — Xeaia Orch., i. t. 3 ; Id., t. 74, fE. 3, i (pachysepala) ; Flwe des Serres, t. 997. 



M. ELLISIANA, Rolfe. — -A cross raised by Mr. Seden between M. Sarryana. 

 and 21. ignea. It was exhibited at the meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society on June 25th, 1889, when it was awarded a flrst-class certificate.. 

 " The name was given in compliment to Lady Howard de Walden, of the Mote 

 Park, Maidstone, a great lover of Orchids, Ellis being the family name. In 

 shape the flowers much resemble M. ignea, the colour light carmine, with 

 darker nerves ; the upper sepal is small, broadly triangular, light purple, with 

 three darker nerves ; the tails of the lateral sepals are vei-y short ; the base of 

 the tube yellow; the petals are white, with faint purple mid-line ; the lip white ■„ 

 the column with violet angles. It is a pretty plant, and tolerably intermediate 

 in character between its two parents " (E. A. Eolfe, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd 

 ser., 1889, vi. p. 154). — Garden hyhrid. 



M. EPHIPPIUM, RcJib. f. — A very curious species of robust and striking 

 character, forming a dense tuft of spathulate-oblong three-nerved leaVes a span 

 long, and winged ancipitous or triquetrous peduncles upwards of a foot high. 



