PL. CCXCV. 
MASDEVALLIA CORIACEA lindl. 
THE CORIACEOUS MASDEVALLIA. 
MASDEVALLIA. Sepala basi v. altius in tubum connata, in acumen v. caudem patentem producta. Petala 
multo minora, saepius angusta. Labellum parvum, polymorphum, cum pede columnae articulatum. Columna erecta, 
superne v. apice solo marginata v. alata, basi in pedem brevem producta; clinandrium obliquum, nunc breve truncatum, 
nunc latum concavum v. fere cucullatum, cum alis columnae continuum, margine varie dentatum. Anthera terminalis 
v. intra clinandrium affixa, opercularis, incumbens, convexa v. cucullata, i-locularis ; pollinia 2, cerea, ovoidea, 
inappendiculata, libéra v. apice visco parco cohaerentia. 
Herbae epiphyticae v. terrestres, caespitosae v. rhizomate repente, non pseudobulbosae. Caules i-foliati, infra 
folium brevissimi v. vix ulli, vaginis 1-2 scariosis inclusi. Folium coriaceum, basi in petiolum longum basi non vaginantem 
contractum. Pedunculus scapum simulans, basi cum petiolo in vagina scariosa inclusus, ipse 1-3-vaginatus, i-florus 
v. laxe racemoso-puriflorus. Flores médiocres v. majusculi, saepe pulchre colorati v. varie picti. 
Species ultra 150, montes Americae tropicae a Peruvia usque ad Mexicum incolae, in Brasilia et Guiana 
perpaucae. 
Masdevallia Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. et 'QUI. Prodr. (1794), p. 122, t. 27. — Benth et Hook f. Gen. Plant., 
III, p. 492. 
Masdevallia coriacea. Dense caespitosa; foliis lineari-oblongis, apice minute tridentatis, basi attenuatis, coriaceis; 
pedunculum folio aequante seu superante, vagina in medio ; bractea cucullata ovario pedicellato breviori ; mento 
obtusangulo, cupula haud longiore ; sepalo summo a basi sublatiori attenuato caudato; sepalis inferioribus ad mediam 
partem connatis triangulis, apice caudatis; petalis ligulatis apiculatis carina una in medio prosiliente; labello oblongo 
apice obtuso, ibi dense papilloso-verrucoso, carina una utrinque basin versus, columna clavata angulata, androclinio 
minute serrulato. 
Masdevallia coriacea Lindl. in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 1, XV (1845), P* 257. — Id., Orch. Linden., 
p. 4. — Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1872, p . 1067. — Karst. Fl. Colomb. II, p. 103, t. 153. 
asdevallia coriacea was originally described in 1845, from dried specimens 
collected by Hartweg three years previously, on the Eastern Cordillera 
of New Granada, in the province of Bogota, at 8,000 to g,000 feet 
élévation. M. Linden also collected it in the forests of Fusagasuga, in the same 
province, at an altitude of 7,200 feet. Holton, Weir and Purdie also obtained 
dried specimens in the same district, but is was not imported alive until 1871, 
when it was sent by Bruchmüller to Messrs Hugh Low & C°, of Clapton. In the 
following year it flowered with Messrs James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, as 
recorded by Reichenbach in the pages of the Gardeners’ Chronicle at that time. 
At first it was distributed into gardens as M. Bruchmülleri , being thought to be 
a new species, but it was never described, and the name was superseded as soon 
as it was authentically identified with Lindley’s M. coriacea. 
The spécifie name was given in allusion of the leathery texture of the leaves. 
The specimen here figured is one which flowered in the collection of 
Messrs Linden, L’Horticulture Internationale, Parc Léopold, Brussels, a 
