

hang nearly horizontally. Ttio floweiw themselves arc nearly three and a half iuehe> in diameter; 

 their ftfiPALft ami PETALS are oblong, rather obtuse, spreading - rpinllj , much undulated, and mottled 

 with rich brown upon a dull yellowish ground. The lip is while, ray much undulated, rolled 



round the coh , wlien spread open almost orbicular, with a small downy tubercle at it* very base. 



and five elevated line* running from it towards the upper end ; of these lines the central and outside 

 one* arc shorter than the intermediate one ; the latter and the external lines arc slightly toothed, the 

 central one is uninterrupted. The COLUMH i* short, downy, with two fleshy truncated ear* at 

 the base, and a winged crisp anther bed, which run* down in front, on each side of the stigma, in 

 the form of two flaps. The A OTHER itself is round and hairy. Fig. J. represents the inside of a 

 lip, spread open ; 2, is a front view of the column ; 3, an anther ; and 4, the pollen-masses, with 

 their caudicula and gland ; one of the pollcnonas*cs being cut across to slicw that it i* excavated ai 

 the back. 



As n genus Miltonia nerd only be compared with Oneidium, Cyrtochihun, and Odontoglossum. 

 It differs from the first in it* lateral sepals being not only distinct, but spreading equally from the 

 eon lit* and not placed txriiraih the column; in it* lip being either flat or convolute, undivided, not 

 lobed or indented at the sides ; and finally in the elevations at the base of the lip not being tubercles 

 or other convexities, but simply plates following the course of the veins. With Cyrtocbilum it 

 agrees in the latter character, but it differs in its lip not being tapered to the point or unguiculatc, 

 and much more developed. Trow Odontoglossum it is known by its lip not being unguiculatc, nor 

 furnished with a pair of punt II el often eonlluent plates at the base, and by its short column. 



