Tas. 4204. 
MILTONIA spEctTABILIS. 
Showy Miltonia. 
Nat, Ord. OncHrpE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char, Perianthium explanatum, petalis revolutis sepalisque lateralibus 
basi connatis sessilibus conformibus. Ladsellum maximum, dilatatum, indivisum, 
sessile, cum columna leviter connatum, basi lamellatum. Colwmna nana semi- 
teres, apice aurita. Pollinia 2, caudicule oblong adnata.—Herbe epiphyte, 
oe eon Scapi uniflori, vaginati, squamis equitantibus. Flores speciosissimt. 
indl. 
erie na LPNS 
Mitronra spectabilis. Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. fol. 1976. et Tab. 1992. 
Microcut.us Fryanus. ‘ Floral Cabinet,’ t. 45. 
It was a most just compliment paid to Lord Fitzwilliam, 
when Dr. Lindley gave to the present plant the name it bears. 
Under his Lordship’s auspices, Orchidee were first success- 
fully cultivated at Wentworth by his able gardener, Mr. Cooper. 
A more lovely genus or a more distinct one, the whole family of 
Orchidee cannot boast, and it has the advantage of its blossoms 
remaining a long time in perfection. With us it flowers in the 
ordinary Orchideous House, in the month of August. 
Descr. This plant has a sort of creeping riizoma, sheathed 
with scales and sending out rather slender roots or fibres below, 
and pseudo-bulbs, distantly placed, above. These latter are ob- 
long, compressed, smooth, with two large membranous scales, one 
on each side at the base. eaves two, terminal on the pseudo- 
bulb, ligulate, subcoriaceous, curved downward. Scape from 
the base of the pseudo-bulb, erect, a foot or more high, sheathed 
at the joints with compressed equitant membranous scales, 
and bearing a solitary large flower of great beauty and delicacy. 
Sepals and petals nearly alike, all spreading, or more or less 
recurved, oblong, obtuse, slightly waved, white or cream-colored, 
with a tinge of rose at the base. Jip very large, pendent, 
obovate, subunguiculated, waved, longitudinally plicate and ob- 
scurely obliquely veined, terminating at the base in a short claw, 
and there having three distinct lamelle. The poe color may 
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