Plate XXI. 



MILTONIA CANDIDA. 



M. Candida ; pscudobulbifl oralis npicc ouguatatis diphyllis, foliia angtutis rncc.no 

 brevioribus, bracteis oralis niembrmmccis concaris squamiefonmbus, eepalis 

 petalisque oblongis (equalibus, labello subrotundo crispo circn columnam convo- 

 1,1,0 ■"*' 5-laniellato, coliiiiinii pubescente basi Mauri, clinandrio crispo membra- 

 iincco-inargiiinto atrinirao in nlnrn decurroiitc. 



Millonia Candida. Hot. Register, 18-18. mite. no. 99. 



This Bruv.ili.rn epiphyte is one of ll.c most noble of its race, and is scarcely rivalled by any or 

 the beamiful species of Dendrobiun. or CoHloya. When il first (lowered, ii was out of health, tl.e 

 .pmrnen was in an unnatural Mule, and consequently the brief character assigned to it i„ J, 

 liiiiiiiiica) itcgistcr requires muelt modification. 



It differs in the structure of it* eolnnm and labellnm in so many respects from ihc Original 

 Millonia. that if much experience had not taught mo lo judge more Correctly of the value of such 

 difference* among Vandea), this would have been regarded as a new gen.... In the first place, ihe 

 bed in wbiel. il... anther lies b bordered by a fringed margin, which runs a little way down the front 

 of the column in Ihe form of two (tape ; in Miltonia -pcclabilis this is not the ease, two auricles 

 only appearing on the front edge of the column ; but in Oncidium cucullatum"', a specie, related 

 to O. Lanoam.m. and about the go.ms of which ll.ere can be no doubt, the anther-bed is in like 

 manner hooded by the thinning away of (lie margin. This tendency on the part of a body usually 

 so fleshy as the column, lo become membranous, is met with in various degrees in many well known 

 genera, especially In Ccriogyne, Calypso, and Pachyphyllum, and is always to be regarded by the 

 systematist with some suspicion, with reference to its affording a valid mark of generic distinction, 

 unless it exists in excess, a* in Ccntropcialum». a Peruvian g,,,,,*, j„ wh ich iho column i- not 

 only entirely petaloid. except at the Hue which hears the stigma end anthers, but coloured like the 

 lip. and completely convolute. 



The cucullalc character of ihc Up is another circumstance in which this species is obviously at 

 variance with ihe original Uillonia ; but ihe same difference is found between Cattleya bicolor and 

 other species of thnt genu*-. 



The pseudo-bulbs are ovale with a long neck, and arc each terminated by a pair of coriaceous 



1.FAVKS, which are narrow, spreading, and shorter than the raceme, which springs fr. he axils ul 



Ihe primary leaves, which surround ihc base of the pseudo-bulb. Each bacbmb consists of fiveorsix 

 flowers, which arc separated from each other by intervals of from one and a half tu two inches, and 



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