Masdevallia is a large genus which is ...

Masdevallia is a large genus which is ...

Masdevallia is a large genus which is remarkable principally for the weird and fantastic shape taken by its flowers.

It is native to tropical America.

It is sympodial and both terrestrial and epiphytic.

Its creeping rhizome and shiny leaves take the place of pseudobulbs.

The flowers resemble unearthly insects, with long, tapering, curled sepals and a tubular or contorted lip, which is most frequently white.

An intermediate house will serve.

Chysis is a small genus containing only about eight species.

It is epiphytic, evergreen, and pseudobulbous.

It has showering flowers, which have a divided lip with a spreading skirt-like base, and erect side lobes, lightly curving together, with a hooded effect.

(Listing and descriptions of some of the species of this genus may be found on page 123.

) Renanthera, a native of India and the South Pacific islands, is a genus of epiphytic and distichous growth and a difficult roving habit.

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