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MASDEVALLIA (HYBRIDA) COURTAULDIANA Rchb.f. 



This hybrid was raised from a cross between Masdevallia caudata var. Shuttleworthii and Masdevallia 

 the flowers exceed those of either parent in size, being not so long as in Masdevallia rosea, but broader and roun 

 caudata, and tails of equal length to both species. The flowers are of a rose-coloured tint ; the late 

 purplish spots ; the middle rib of the sepals and their prolongations— the tails— are purplish brown, 

 merit of producing this splendid hybrid is due to Mr. Norman C. Cookson, of Oakwood, Wy 

 Sydney Courtauld, of Bocking Place, Braintree. 

 Gard. Chron., 1889, H., p. 200. 



The plant is rather dwarf, but 



rounder, with the open calyx of Masdevallia 



al sepals pale brown at their base, mottled with 



. The petals and lip are mostly pure white. The 



Tyne, and it was dedicated by Reichenbach to Mr. 



F. Kranzlin. 



MASDEVALLIA (HYBRIDA) GELENIANA rm./. 



Another hybrid between Masdevallia caudata Shuttleworthii and Masd. Estradse var. xanthina, w 

 the parents, is distinct from both. It is a dwarf plant, with the well-known obovate, densely-tufted leav 

 leaves ; the flowers are more nodding than in either of the parents. As might be expected from the cros; 

 Shuttleworthii, with much yellow on the outside of its flowers, and with somewhat shorter tails. The si 2 

 seedling ; the flowers of the hybrid are about two-thirds the size of Masdevallia caudata, and the difteren 

 have in Masd. caudata is to be observed also in Masd. Geleniana. This hybrid was raised at St. Albans. 



F. Sander was named by the late Prof. Reichenbach in honour of Baron Hruby 



ich, although there is a remarkable affinity between 

 s. The flower stalks are scarcely longer than the 

 the hybrid is in its whole habit like Masd. caudata 

 : of the parent flower is not very different from the 

 :e between the dorsal sepal and the lateral ones we 

 eries of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., 



G 





lytical drawings give both front and side view of labellum and colu 



MASDEVALLIA (HYBRIDA) MEASURESIANA r. 



A. Rolfe. 



lalytica 



the labellun 

 from both front 



wings represent 

 d column, seen 

 and side. 



A very interesting hybrid between Masdevallia tovarensis fertilised with the pollen of Masd. amabilis As 

 in all the other instances of hybrid Masdevallias, the influence of the mother-plant is shown in the size and habit of 

 the seedling, whilst the peculiarities of the flower are very strictly under the influence of the pollen parent The 

 foliage of Masd. Measuresiana is a comparatively luxuriant one. The flower stalks are as high as those of Masd 

 amabihs, and more upright than in Masd. tovarensis ; they are mostly two-flowered. In general appearance the 

 flowers resemble those of Masd. amabilis, but the sepals are broader (nearly as wide as those of Masd tovarensis) 

 and the colour is much paler than in Masd. amabilis. The tails, however, are purplish-brown, as in the latter species' 

 This hybrid was raised in the nurseries of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., at St. Albans, Herts, and named in honour of 

 Mr. R. I. Measures, of Cambridge Lodge, Flodden Road, Camberwell. 



Gard. Chron., 1890, II., page 254. F Krd nzlin. 



Twenty years ago it was thought but little less than an impossibility to attempt the 

 rearing of hybrid Masdevallias, to say nothing of other genera such as Phalaenopsis and 

 Odontoglossum. But, as is ever usual, nature had led the way abroad where these 

 glorious Orchids are wild, and so her handiworks have encouraged the hybridiser at 

 home, who has solved so many difficulties in cross-breeding, and whose deepest faith is, 

 and must ever be, that in the garden "nothing is impossible!" Nature in forest and 

 meadow and on the mountains is always offering us " new lamps for old," and whatever 

 forms and phases of change or evolution is possible afield, it follows as a broad rule that 

 these at least, even if not many more, are likewise possible in the garden. Indeed, much 



