MASDEVALLIA. 



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,' M, TRIANGULARIS, iii)MiJ._A curious and interesting little species. The 

 leaves are oval-lanceolate acute, 4 inches long, the .scape filiform, the flowers 

 spreading, with the sepals equal triangular, scarcely 2 inches long, ochre- 



; yellow dotted with purple, the long slender tails' deep red. It flowers in 



■ DeceiUber and January.— ZJ. S. of Colombia. 

 Fig. — Wooltvard's Masd., iii. t. 29. 



M. TRIARISTELLA, Bclib. /.—A singular little species with densely tufted 

 stems, and subulate leaves, which never exceed 2 inches in height. Scape 

 ■slender, erect, nearly 3 inches high, and bearing one pr two flowers about an 

 inch long ; the upper sepal slightly reflexed, narrow, yellow ; lateral sepals also 

 narrow, connate their entire 

 length, reddish-brown iDoth on 

 the outside and the anterior 

 half of the inner side, the basal 

 part orange-yellow, and fur- 

 nished with a long slender tail 

 which proceeds from the sides, 

 some distance above the tips. 

 Flowers in the summer and 

 autumn months. — Costa Bdea. 

 ¥lG.—£ot. Mag., t. 6268. 



M. TROCHILUS See M. 



EPHIPPIUM. 



M. TROGLODYTES, Mor- 

 ren. — In this we have a very 

 singular little plant, and 

 although it cannot boast of 

 size, it is a profuse bloomer. 

 The leaves are narrowly 

 lanceolate, acute, furnished with three short points,' from 3 to 5 inches 

 long, pale green and persistent; scape, slender, bearing a solitary flower, and 

 becoming pendent with its weight ; sepals campanulate, creamy- white on the 

 outside, reddish-purple inside, the tip of each sepal furnished with long slender 

 filiform tails, which are deep brown p,nd spreading. Flowers in the winter 

 months. — Medellin, New Grenada. ' 



Fig.— Bdg. Hurt., 1877, p. 97, t. 5. 



M. VEITCHIANA, Rchh. f. — A mo'st beautifiil species, with flowers of re- 

 splendent colour. The^ leaves are densely ^ufted,, 6, or 8 inches long, linear- 

 oblong, leathery, of a dark shining' -greei^n ; the scape bears a solitary flower 

 about 6 inches across in its longest diameter, 'the sepals connate into a tube at 

 the base, ovate the lateral ones oblique, and each lengthened out into a tail at the 

 , points; they are of a, bright orange-scarlet; exceedingly rich, from the- inner 

 surface being studded with minute papillae of a brilliant cadmium-yellow and 

 also beautifully shaded with purple ; the eye or mouth of the tube is bright 

 yellow, and contains the small and unattractive petals and lip. This noble 

 species blooms usually during the autumn months, lasting long in perfection, 



MASDEVALLIA TBIAKISTELLA. 



