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decurved lateral sepals rose-coloured, thickly studded with deep reddish-purple 

 spots ; all three sepals are contracted, the dorsal one suddenly, and the lateral 

 ones more gradually into tails about three times their own length, which are 

 green at the base, changing to orange-yellow towards the tips. It blossoms 

 during the spring and summer months. — U. S. of Colombia. 



Fig. — OrcJi hi Album, i. t. 5 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6.S72 ; Lindenia, iv. 1. 182 ; ReiclicnhacTila . 

 i. 1. 13 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., v. p. 28 ; Gartcnflora, 1890, t. 1329. 



M. SHUTTLEWORTHII XANTHOCORYS, Bdih. /.—A pretty variety with 

 smaller flowers than the preceding, and paler in colour withotit any rosy tint ; 

 the upper sepal is prettily striped with yellowish-brown. It is said to be more 

 fragrant than the type. Blooms in spring. 



Fig. — Rciclunhachia, i. t. 13 (lower figure). 



M. SPLENDIDA, liclib.f. — A natural hybrid, sent over with consignments of 

 M. Veitchiana and 21/. Barlaeana, which two species are believed to be its parents. 

 " It is a great satisfaction to have a second, which makes one think of a mule 

 between M. Veiichiana and M. Barlaeana or amabilis. It is not M. Veitchiana, on 

 account of its long slender perigonal tube, the quite abrupt tails of its sepals, its 

 not three-lobed but ligulate lip, and the semi-sagittate anterior base of its petals. 

 One might form a good idea of it by taking a peduncle of amabilis, making it 

 shorter and stronger, crowning it with a far greater flower, giving it full scarlet 

 inside in lieu of purple, and then letting it have inside that wonderful violet 

 papillaceous hue. The petals are white ; the lip white, with a violet disk and 

 a dark violet knob at its tip, and there is a violet line on each side of the white 

 column. A recommendation of the novelty would be quite superfluous "' (H. Gr. 

 Reichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1S78, ix. p. 492). — Peru,. 



M. STELLA, Bolfe. — Another of the hybrid Masdevallias obtained by Capt. 

 Hincks, of Thirsk. This is a cross between M. Estradas and M. Harryana, 

 and is described by Mr. R. A. Bolfe as follows : — " Leaves elliptical-obovate, 

 petiolate ; scape 7 to 8 inches high ; perianth tube narrow, compressed, straight, 

 sharply keeled behind, yellow on sides and in throat ; dorsal sepal elliptical, 

 concave, lilac-purple, with purple mid-nerve, and faint side-nerves, keeled 

 behind, tail brownish-yellow, 2 inches long; lateral sepals broadly falcate- 

 oblong, diverging at base, nearly an inch long, lilac-purple, with purple mid- 

 nerve ; tails a little shorter than that of the dorsal sepal ; petals obliquely 

 oblong, obtuse, front angle produced in an acute auricle, white; lip oblong, 

 obtuse, white, with numerous lilac-purple dots, and a deep dull purple apical 

 tooth" (Gardeiiers' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 325). 



M. TOVARENSIS, ScJih. f. — This is a very distinct and beautiful species, 

 easy of culture, and much sought after on account of its producing a profusion 

 of white flowers, which are invaluable as cut flowers for many decorative 

 purposes. The plant, moreover, lasts a long time in bloom, and thus makes 

 up, with its modest beauty, for any deficiency that might be suggested through 

 comparing it with larger-flowered and more attractively coloured sorts. It 

 forms a tuft of oblong-spathulate bi-dentate leaves a span long, and has two- 

 edged scapes of about the same height, bearing flowers of the purest white, in 

 which the sepals coalesce into a short tube, the dorsal one gradually tapered 

 into an awn-like tail nearly 2 inches long, and the lateral ones are longer, 



