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OECHID-dEOWEfi'S AaNUAL. 



oblanceolate obtuse or retiise ' three-nerved leaves, and produce numerous 

 scapes taller than the leaves, each bearing a raceme 'Of from six to eight 

 flowers, which are 6f a very pale lilac, almost white, and speckled all over with 

 purple, the filiform tails, which are about 1 inch long, being olivaceous spotted 



with purple. In form the flowers 

 have a short tube, an ovate 

 cymbiform dorsal sepal, and nar- 

 rower obliquely oblong lateral 

 sepals, all of which are ciKolate 

 at the edge. Blooms in winter. — 

 Northern Peru. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag:, t. 6368 (not 

 t. 6258, which is M. melanopm') .; 

 L'lU. Hon.. 3rd ser., t. 198 ; Gar- 

 tenflora, t. 869 ; S^iv. HoH., 1880, 

 p. 250, with tab. ; Gard. Chron..'S.B., 

 iii. p. 657; f. 134 : Jom-n. of Hort., 

 1886, xii. p. 375, f. 68 ; Woolward'x 

 " " , iii. t. 28.. ■ ' ■ 



MASDEVALLIA POLYSTICTA. 



M. POURBAIXI, ITort.— This 

 little gem was raised by M. Eugene 

 Pourbaix, of Mons, Belgium, and 

 is a cross between M. Veitchiana 

 and JiC^ Slvuttleworihii, the result- 

 being a .plant, intermediate be-, 

 tween the two parents ; the flower is intermediate in size, but in form reminds, 

 one most of M. ' Shuttleworthii ; in the colouring it has' the .superb scarlet-, 

 vermilion of M. Veitchiana, but not quite so brilliant ; the surface is covered 

 with a number of minute papillae of a reddish-brown. — Garden hyhrid. 

 Fig. — Zindenia, ix. t. 387. 



M. RACEMOSA, Lindl. — This is a beautiful plant, but one that has uot yet 

 realised the expectations formed of it ; the racemes sent home with, the 

 original importation of this species show them to have carried many flowers, but 

 under cultivation we have not yet seen more than four or' five blooms,' these 

 are however exceedingly showy; the plant has a slender creeping rhizojne, 

 from which arise its short stems ; scape a foot or more long ; inany-flowered, 

 flowers upwards of 1 inch across, brilliant orange-scarlet; the lateral sepals 

 constitute the beauty of this flower, and these are destitute of tails, the upper- 

 sepal is very small and reflexed. — New Grenada. 



j"l(j, — YeitcKs Man. Orcli. PL, v. p. 58. 



M. RADIOSA, Bclib. f. — A pretty little species, with flowers in the way of 

 those of M. Ohimaera, but only about' two-fifths of their size ; the inner surface 

 of the flower is blackish-purple, being densely covered with blackish warts on a 

 purple- ground,, and -the tails are almost black; the lip is white. .It was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Wallis. Flowers produced in spring. — New Grenada: Frontina. 



Fig. — Veitch's Man. Orcli. PI., v. p. 59. 



M. REICHENBACHIANA,, £wcZres.-7-A distinct and .free-flowwilig- species, 

 which when discovered by .the late Mr, Endres, was named by him after his. 



