^2o ORCHIDS 



Masdeuallia. 

 only one of the most beautiful, but the most singular of Orchids, 

 for the vi\-id hue of the flowers is due to the whole inner 

 surface of the sepals being covered with minute [)apilla; (raised 

 dots) of the most brilliant colours. These are largest and most 

 crowded where the colour is deepest. Leaves 6in. to Sin. 

 long, lin. wide, erect, broadest near the top, which is acute- 

 pointed, the lower part narrowing to a partially-sheathed base. 

 The scape is erect, ift. long, one-flowered, and the ovary curved; 

 the sepals form a shallow cupi, the upper one 2in. long, ovate, 

 narrowed to a tail-like point, the lower pair 2in. long, united and 

 forming a concave blade ir,\n. across, then separated and narrowed 

 to short tails ; the petals and lip are very small ; colour bright 

 cinnabar-red, with a broad patch of purplish-violet on the inner 

 surface of the lower sepals. The plant blossoms in autumn, 

 sometimes also in spring, tne flowers lasting a long time. It 

 requires the same treatment as J\f. cdcciiica. Peru, 1S67. 

 (B. M., t. 5739.) 



\'ar. i^randifiora has flowers nearly twice as large as those of 

 the type, and more finely coloured. 



M. Wageneriana [LiiiJL). — A small but pretty species, 

 scarcely 3in. in height. Leaves in tufts, spoon-shaped, rather 

 leathery. Flowers produced singly on decumbent wiry scapes, 

 bearing a few small sheaths ; sepals united at the base, forming 

 a short, cup-like tube, the upper one concave, with a slender 

 tail lin. long, the lower ones spreading, their tails recurved ; 

 colour yellow, with a few red dots in the tliroat ; petals minute, 

 hatchet-shaped ; lip small, toothed, with a claw-like apex. Like 

 all the small plants of this genus, Af. jragein'rutiia must be mag- 

 nified to be seen to advantage. It thrives when treated similarly 

 to A/, caiidala. Central America, 1S51. (B. ISL, t. 4921.) 



M. Wallisii (Iic/i/>.). — A variety of J/. C/u'i/hrra. 



M. Wendlandii {Iichl>. /.). — Perhaps the only tropical species. 

 It should be grown in a warm, intermediate-house temperature 

 always. Flowers white, tubular, solitary, ^in. long, the tails equal 

 to the free, triangular bodies; chin short; lip having an orange 

 area before the ape.x, and very numerous small dark purple dots; 

 column white, with three mauve stripes. Leaves densely massed, 

 spathulate, minutely bilobed. Colombia, 1SS7. 



G.^RDKN HVBRIDS. 



-4i-/s (ihlin-riata and Clitlsoni (Hiiicl;^). 



Ajiix ( 'Ii,-Im<iii and pi-nsUria (\'eitch). 



^lijit-iiiiii,! ; 'c-itc/iitinu and lovarensis (.Sander). 



Asinodiii Clii-Zsoiii and Rcicliciiliachiunn (\'eitcli). 



J.!ocl-in:; HyhriJ I '<-ihiii,iii,i and fii,u!/,it,i. 



Caaiopc //-/)i/i!;ii/iir/.\ and i-i'Ciiiica (Hinck>). 



