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commonest species, discovered by Bonpland, who accompanied 

 Humboldt to Mexico ; brought to Europe no long time 

 afterwards. But the pure white variety turned up to astonish 

 the world very few years ago, and the names of those happy 

 mortals who possess a sample would make only a brief if 

 distinguished list. 



Loxense seems to have been not uncommon in our fathers' 

 time, but no plants have arrived from Peru — Loxa is the 

 district — for many years. It makes a long spike with 

 branches, bearing a great number of large flowers ; sepals 

 greenish ochre, crossed with blurs of chocolate ; petals deep 

 brown, edged and tipped with yellow. Lip large and flowing, 

 as it were, orange-yellow, speckled with red in the throat. 



JVeltoni. — Classed of late among Miltonias. A singular 

 and fascinating species, difficult to grow and still more difficult 

 to flower. The sepals and petals are very narrow, with edges 

 like a saw, greenish brown, widening out suddenly at the tip, 

 which is yellow. The lip is extraordinary in all respects. It 

 shows a fine broad disc of dusky purple, with a darker bar 

 across the middle ; and below this, sharply divided as if by 

 a stroke of the brush, two smaller discs pure white. Upon 

 the whole to be wondered at rather than admired, but more 

 interesting on that account. 



