. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. MASDEVALLIA. 49^ recently in Peru. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, having a short petiole at the base, carinate beneath, leathery in texture, 3 to 6 inches long, bright shining green, per- sistent ; scape erect, slender, one-iiowered, flowers oampanulate, furnished with long spreading yellowish-green tails, inside of sepals reddish-violet or rosy-pur- ple, upper sepal yellowish-white. Flowers in the winter months.—BrarM; Peru. Fig.—Flore dcs Serrcs, xxiii. t. 238
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. MASDEVALLIA. 49^ recently in Peru. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, having a short petiole at the base, carinate beneath, leathery in texture, 3 to 6 inches long, bright shining green, per- sistent ; scape erect, slender, one-iiowered, flowers oampanulate, furnished with long spreading yellowish-green tails, inside of sepals reddish-violet or rosy-pur- ple, upper sepal yellowish-white. Flowers in the winter months.—BrarM; Peru. Fig.—Flore dcs Serrcs, xxiii. t. 2389; Wuolward's Musih, ii. t. 14. Syn.—M. lonjiicandiita. M. lONOCHARIS, Itchh. f.—This is another of the small species, but it is very elegant. The whole plant is less than 6 inches high, notwithstanding, it is hardy enough to exist at 10,000 feet elevation in the Andes of Peru. The stems are densely tufted, and the lanceolate leaves narrowed below into a petiole, leathery, persistent, and deep green ; scape erect, about 3 inches long, bearing a single oampanulate flower, which is about \ inch across, tailed, white, stained with violet-purple at the base, tails yellow. Blooms in the autumn months.—Teru. Fig,.—Sot. May., t. 6262; L'Or- cTiidopUle, 1883, p. 667 (plate). M. LEONTOGLOSSA, Rchh. /. —This is a curious species, which we have seen but once, and that was in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burf ord Lodge, Dorking. Stems tufted, bearing oblong-lanceolate leaves, which are about 6 inches long, leathery in texture, deep green and per- sistent ; scape short, one-flowered, sepals lengthened out into tail-like points, .yellowish-green, heavily spotted and blotched with deep purple; petals small, white; lip protruding, tongue-like, purple. Blooms in the winter months.— Venezuela. Fm.—Bot. Mag., t. 7245 ; Vcitcli's Man. Orch. PI., v. p. 49 ; Woolward's Masd., ii. t. 15. Nl. LINDENI, Andre.—A very handsome and brilliant species, evidently close
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