Epiphytal. _Stems_ short, tufted, slender. _Leaves_ persistent, of leathery texture, the blade spathulate, channelled at the base, keeled behind, tapering down into the petiole, which is invested by whitish brown membranaceous sheathing bracts. _Scape_ issuing from the bract, investing the leaf base, radical, about a foot high, stiff, pale green, thickly striate-blotched with purple, with one or two distant sheathing bracts, and surmounted by the curved six-ribbed ovary, which is dotted with purple. _Flowers_ remarkably brilliant in colour; _tube_ about a quarter of an inch wide and upwards of half an inch long, orange-yellow, the open tube forming a yellow eye to the flower; _dorsal sepal_ filiform, recurved, two inches long; _lateral sepals_ deflexed falcate-ovate acute, fully two inches long by one inch wide, of a bright vermilion-red flushed with scarlet, and having the principal ribs of a rich deep crimson; _petals_ minute, oblong-obtuse, white tinged with purple; _lip_ still shorter, the tip recurved yellow, the disk with a deep furrow between two obtuse ridges. _Column_ white, shorter than the petals, the winged margin extending upwards into a toothed hood. Masdevallia Harryana miniata, _Williams and Moore_, _supra_. This is a most charming variety of _Masdevallia Harryana_, being quite a new colour in this section; it is the most distinct and beautiful for its brightness of hue—one which we have not yet seen developed to such perfection of brilliancy in any other variety. It may also be noted, that when mixed with other forms of various colours it blends with them most charmingly. How exceedingly bright and beautiful it is will be seen from our figure, in which, however, it has been extremely difficult for our artist to imitate the natural tint of the flower. Our sketch was taken from a well-bloomed plant in the large collection of _Masdevallias_ grown by W. Lee, Esq., of Downside, Leatherhead. It is a very rare as well as showy plant, and we shall be glad to see more of it, as it will assuredly be sought after. _Masdevallia Harryana miniata_ is a dwarf compact-growing plant, with foliage about eight inches high of a bright dark green colour. The flowers are scarlet-vermilion with a bright yellow eye. It blooms during May and June, and lasts about four weeks in full beauty.