Tas. 4425. 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS; var. PURPUREO-VIOLACEA. 
Showy Miltonia ; purple-violet variety. 
Nat. Ord. OrncutpEa.—GyYNAaNDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4204.) 
| MILTONIA spectabilis ; pseudo-bulbis ovalibus ancipitibus levibus, foliis ligu- 
latis patentissimis, pedunculis unifloris squamis magnis fuscis_striatis 
| imbricatis carinatis dense imbricatis, sepalis ovalibus planis, petalis con- 
formibus revolutis, labello maximo cuneato-rotundato basi trilamellato, 
columne alis angustis acutissimis, Lindl. 
7 Minronta spectabilis. Lind?. Bot. Reg.t.1992. Hook. Bot. Mag. t: 4204. 
8. floribus unicoloribus purpureo-violaceis. (Tas. wostR. 4425.) 
For the full description of this species, we must refer our 
readers to the plate above quoted; for, striking as this plant is 
from the intense purple-violet colour of the entire flower, yet in 
3 shape and every essential particular, it is identical with J/i- 
fonva spectabilis. Those parts which are palest in the original 
: M. spectabilis (the petals and sepals for example, there, almost 
pure white) are here of the deepest purple ; and the lip, which | in 
our T'as. 4204, is the most coloured, is here the least so, being 
of a paler purple than the sepals and petals. a os 
_ _Dr. Lindley having since the publication of his original species 
added others, some at the expence of the genus Cyriochilum, it 
Comes necessary to give a specific character to this, which we 
are glad to do from Dr. Lindley’s 31st volume of the Botanical 
Register. W.J. H. 
._ __ Curr. The several species of Miltonia being natives of the 
1 warm parts of Brazil, this plant requires to be kept in_ the 
Warmest division of the orchideous house. It is sometimes 
8rown on a block of suspended wood, but we prefer shallow pots, 
well drained, and fixing it in rough peat’ soil, mixed with chopped 
Sphagnum, moss, and broken potsherds. During summer it must 
be shaded from the sun’s mid-day rays. It is observed that the 
Species of this genus have generally a yellow unhealthy appearance, 
Which to a certain degree seems natural to them. J. 8. 
FEBRUARY lst, 1849. 
