Tab. 5436. 

 MILTONIA Regnelli. 



Regnell's Miltonia. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^. — Gynandria Monandria. 



Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, aequalia; lateralibus basi paulo connatis. Petala 

 conformia, sequilonga. Labellum indivisum, sessile, cum eolumna continuum, 

 lineis quibusdam elevatis, interrupts juxta basin. Columna nana, auriculis 2, 

 nunc cum clinandrio cucullato confluentibus. Stir/ma excavatum. Pollinia 2, 

 cereacea, postice sulcata ; caudicula obovata; glandula oblonga. Jnlhera oper- 

 culata, membranacea, nudn. — Herbae epiphytes, America tropica?, psendohdbo&a, 

 colore scepius lutescente. Folia angusta, plana. Eacemi simplices, radicates, pe- 

 dunculo sapius squamis arete imbricato. Flores speciosi, lutei vel purpurei. 



Miltonia Regnelli; pedunculo paucifloro, bracteis lanceolatia nervosis pedicellis 

 longioribus, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis oblongis, nunc obovatis acutis, la- 

 bello subpandurato apice quadrato emarginato basi cuneato, callis tribus 

 elevatis parvis intermedio minore, alis columnar integris falcatis. Lindl. 



Miltonia Eegnelli. Reichenb. fil. in Linnaea, v. 22. p. 851. Ejusd. Xenia 

 Orchid, v. 1. p. 133. t. 42. Lindl. Fol. Orchid. Miltonia, p. 2. 



We owe the possession of this plant to the Botanic Garden of 

 Berlin. It was first described and figured by Dr. Reichenbach 

 fil, from plants introduced into Europe from Minas Geraes, 

 Brazil, by Mr. Regnell. It flowered with us in August, 1863. 

 Dr. Lindley had only seen a single dried flower of it, and he 

 considers it to be nearer M. Busselliana, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1830 (under the generic name Oncidium), than to any other 

 species of the genus ; but from that it is totally distinct, and, 

 but for the scape being more than one-flowered, it might almost 

 pass for a form of M. spectabilis. Reichenbach gives, as the 

 essential character of M. spectabilis, " pedunculo ancipiti inter- 

 rupte vaginato, labello gequaliter pandurato obovato-rotundato 

 retuso, lamellis ternis in basi ;" and of M. Begnelli, " labello 

 sessili obpandurato, antice obtuso emarginatove piano, carinulis 



APRIL 1st, 1864. 



