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ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. 



M. ROSEA, Lindl. — Although described long since it was not until 1880 

 that this species was introduced into cultivation. It is a dwarf -growing plant, 



producing its flowers in great 

 profusion, and for cultivators 

 offers altogether a new and 

 distinct type. The plant is of 

 tufted habit like the rest ; its 

 leaves are elliptic acute and 

 long-stalked, and its scapes 

 are longer than the leaves, 

 bringing the flowers well up 

 into view; they have a cylin- 

 drical tube 1 inch long, which 

 is deep crimson-purple above 

 and rosy-lilac beneath; the 

 dorsal sepal is filiform, 2^ inches 

 long, bent down closely over 

 the lateral ones, which are 

 semi-ovate, with an attenuated 

 point as long as the dorsal 

 one, and of a bright rose colour, 

 the attenuated tail-like por- 

 tion being crimson -pur pie. — 

 Peru. 



MASDEVALLIA ROSEA. 



(From the Oardeners^ Chronicle.) 



'FiG.—Gard. Chrom., N.S., xiii. p. 681, ff. 117, 118 ; Id., xvi. p. 337, f. 63 ; Journ. of 

 iTbrt., 1886,xiii. p. 71, f. 11 ; VeiteWe Man. Oreh.Pl., v. p. 61 ; Woolward's JHasd.,i. t. 7. 



M. SCHLIMII, Linden. — A distinct species, producing as many as from six 

 to eight secund long-stalked flowers on a tall scape, each flower issuing from a 

 bluntish sheathing bract. The plant is of stoutish habit, the stalked oblong 

 leaves narrowed to the base being 1 foot long and 3 inches broad; the flowers 

 are handsome and dissimilar ; the dorsal sepal is considerably smaller than the 

 others, with a triangular base, soon narrowing into the thickish tail; the 

 lateral ones are more oblong, suddenly narrowing into tails of about 2 inches 

 long ; the colour is a reddish-brown, with yellow tails and dorsal sepal ; on 

 closer inspection the inner and upper part of the lateral sepals may be seen to 

 be also yellow, but covered with innumerable small reddish-brown spots, while 

 the petals are white, and the lip yellowish spotted over with reddish-brown. 

 It flowers during the winter months — November to February in its wild 

 habitats — and was first flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. — U. S. of 

 Colombia. 



Fig. — Gard. Chron., N.S., xix. p. 532, f. 80 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6740; Veitch's Man. Orch. 

 PI., y. p. 62 ; Woolward's Masd.,n. t. 19. 



M. SHUTTLEWORTHll, Bchh. /.—A very free-flowering and beautiful little 

 species, with tufts of elliptic-oblong sub-acute three- to five-nerved leaves about 

 4 to 5 inches high, and scapes of nearly the same height, bearing each a 

 comparatively large flower, which has a very short gibbous tube, and a sub- 

 erect somewhat hooded dorsal sepal of a pale yellowish colour tinted with pale 

 rosy-red, and marked with several wine-coloured nerves, the obliquely ovate 



