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minutely spotted with, rosy-crimson. It was flowered and exhibited before the 

 Eoyal Horticultural Society on April 25th, 1893, by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. 

 — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Journ. (if Sort., 1893, xxvii. p. 119, f. 18. 



MASDEVALLIA GELBNIASrA. 



(From the Jownal of Ifortieulture.') 



M. GLAPHYRANTHA, RM. /.—Another of Mr. Seden's hybi-ids; it is 

 between M. infraota and M. Barlaeana ; this latter being a Peruvian species, 

 closely allied to M. amahilis: The sepals are rosy-purple with yellow tails, 

 the upper one yellowish in the middle. — Garden hybrid. 



M. GUTTULATA, Rolfe. — According to Mr. Rolfe this is an interesting little 

 Masdevallia; flowered by Mr. F. W. Moore, of Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, on 

 several occasions. " It belongs to the Tovarensis group. The flowers are about 

 half the size of that species, yellowish-white in colour, spotted and slightly 

 suffused with light purple. Flowers in March. — Native country not stated. 



M. HARRYANA, Rchb.f. — A free-growing and very handsome species, which 

 in its habit of growth resembles M. Lindenii, of which it is sometimes regarded 

 as a variety, differing in its colouring. It forms thick tufts of long-stalked 

 narrowly obovate-spathulate leathery leaves, 8 or 10 inches long, and flowers of 

 the richest blood-crimson, on scapes somewhat taller than the leaves. It is one 

 of the handsomest and most distinct species of this genus. The flowers are 

 3 inches long ; the sepals connate below into a decurved sub -cylindrical tube, 



