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M. FENESTRATA, Lindl. — A curious little species, the flowers of which are 

 always objects of great attention. It is one that we have found to thrive 

 best in the temperature of the intermediate house. A tufted plant seldom 

 exceeding 6 inches in height, leaves broadly oblong, deep-green, persistent, 

 flowers produced singly from the base of the leaf, about an inch long, and of a 

 deep-brown hue ; sepals joined throughout their length, saving a window-like 

 opening on either side. Flowers in the spring and summer months. — West 

 Indies. 



FiGt.—Bot. Mag., t. 4164. 



Syn. — Plmrotlmllis atro-purpuvM ; Specklima atro-purpurea ; Cryptoplim'antliuK 

 uti-o-purpuroim. 



M. FRASERII, Bidhh.f. — A cross between M. ignea and M. Lindenii, the flowers 

 very much resembling those of its first-named parent, but the tail of the dorsal 

 sepal is not bent down as in that species, the colour is rich bright crimson, tinged 

 with orange. — Garden hybrid. 



M. FULVESCENS, Rolfe. — Introduced from ITew Grenada by Messrs.Horsman 

 & Co. It is a very pretty species, according to Mr. Eolfe apparently allied to 

 M. infracta, but with more brightly-coloured flowers. "The perianth is of a 

 buff shade, passing into light purple-brown on the constricted sides of the 

 throat, the upper sepal deeper orange-yellow, shading into purple-brown on the 

 two lateral nerves " (K. A. Eolfe, in Gardeners' Chronicle).— U. S. of Colombia. 



Fia.—Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 325, f. 65. 



M. GAIRIANA, RcJib. f. — An interesting hybrid between M. Bavisii and 

 M. Veitchiana, the result being the production of an intermediate form. The 

 colour of the flower is that of M. Bavisii.^ but the form is more like M. Veitchiana, 

 and it is furnished with the bluish-purple areas which are found on the flowers 

 of that species. It was raised in Messrs. Veitch & Sons' nursery at Chelsea. — 

 Garden hybrid. 



M. GASKELLIANA, Bchb.f. — "The lanceolate, acute, narrow, somewhat thin 

 leaves scarcely exceed 4 inches in length; the peduncles would appear to 

 remain one-flowered; the outer surface of the sepaline cup is purple-mauve, 

 with two yellow areas on the inferior base and apex of the lateral sepals ; tails 

 longer, mauve-purple on both sides ; inside the cup is light yellowish, hairy, 

 full of mauve spots ; petals purple-mauve, bivalved in the usual manner at top, 

 and these with acute asperities; lip calceolar, narrow, long (as in 21. Back- 

 housiana), with one chief longitudinal keel, and one on each side, hght yellow ; 

 column, light yellow with a very long beak. It stands nearest to M. radiosa " 

 {R. G. Eeiohenbach, in Gardenem' Chronicle, sr.s., 188-3, xx. p. 294). It was 

 flowered by Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., of Liverpool.— JVtiiiue country not stated. 



M. GELENIANA, Bchh. f. — This hybrid Masdevallia is a cross between 

 M. Shuttleworthii and M. xanthina, and was raised by Messrs. Sander & Co., 

 and dedicated to Baron Hruby von Gelenye, of Peckau, Bohemia. The plant is 

 intermediate between its two parents, the flowers are pale greenish-yellow. 



