MASDEVALLIA. 



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.1 '^' )'^^r^^*' J^'"'- ^■~'^^"' '■''"°"^ Mnder.Uiu was introduced by u. 

 l.rougl: Mr. C. Patiu, in 1874, and flowered with us in the same year It 

 iJOlongs to the Leoutoglossae group, which have the paired sepals connate " The 

 great cunosity is that the body of the lateral sepals is strictly bent down, 

 wh.ch gives It a most curious ajipearance, the whole flower is covered with a 

 splendid gloss as if varnished. The base is green outside and turns thus from 

 brown shades to light In-own till to the yellow of the borders and tails is 



MASDEVALLIA VELIFEEA. 

 (From the O.n-ili-ni-rs' Chninich-.') 



reached. The odd sepal is covered inside with numerous small spots. The 

 connate sepals have only the borders and tails yellow inside, while the 

 remainder inside is of a most curious brown, that one may paint by mixing a 

 reddish-brown with sej)ia. This adds a great charm to the quite extravagantly 

 formed species. The petals are light green, and the lip inside of the darkest 

 brownish-purijle." — U.S. of Cuhnnhia. 



FlQ.—r OrrJiidiijiJiilr. ISSS. p. 544 ; Giir/I. Chi-iui., .Srd scr.. 1SS7, i. p. lin, t. 142. 



M. VESPERTILIO, llrhh. /.—A very pretty little species with narrow, thick 

 and leathery leaves, which are ab<mt o inches long, and deep green; scape 

 pendent and one-flowered, flowm-s triangular and long-tailed, ground colour 

 creamy-white, dotted with wart-like spots of ]jurple. — U. S. of Colomhin. 



M. WAGENERIANA, Linden.— This is truly a pigmy Orchid, the whole plant 

 not growing more than 2 or 3 inches high. It has the same tufted habit as the 

 rest of the genus, with spathulate obtuse coriaceous leaves, and filiform scapes 



