many flowers, each being up to 3 inches across. Sepals and petals chestnut brown 
blotched with yellow. The heart-shaped lip is constricted in the middle and 
pointed at the apex. It is reddish-purple in the lower part and white in front. 
Flowers in late Autumn or Winter. Treatment as for candida. 
MILTONIA CUNEATA. Native of Brazil. 
A free flowering species, one of the largest of the Miltonias. Pseudobulbs clustered, 
ovate, slightly compressed and about 4 inches high. The leaves are dark green in 
colour (unusual with Miltonias), and are strap-shaped, stout and about a foot long 
and 14 inches wide. Scape erect and carries four to eight flowers, which are from 
3 to 4 inches wide. The sepals and petals are undulated and narrow from the 
middle to a sharp reflexed point. They are chocolate-brown in colour, with a 
few bars of yellowish-green and tipped with the same tonings. Lip 1} inches long 
and 1 inch wide, creamy-white, with a crest of two parallel lines spotted with 
rose-purple. Flowers in late Summer or early Autumn and lasts about a month. 
Does best in a pot. Give ample light and moisture. Likes rather warmer con- 
ditions than most of the Miltonias. 
MILTONIA PHALAENOPSIS. Native of Colombia. 
A beautiful but delicate species with small, clustered, ovate, slightly compressed 
pseudobulbs, each about an inch in height. Leaves pale green, narrow and grass- 
like, from 8 to 12 inches in length. Scapes erect, about a foot tall and bearing 
from two to four flattish flowers. Sepals oblong, pointed, and an inch long. Petals 
broader and longer. Lip, large and flat, about an inch wide at the base and nearly 
two inches across at the apex. Sepals and petals white. Lip white, blotched and 
sheathed with crimson. Flowers in Spring and remains in good order for a month. 
This species requires glasshouse treatment throughout the year and should be hung 
close to the glass. Ample water is necessary in Summer, and even in Winter it 
should be kept moist. Thrips and red spider are partial to this species, 
MILTONIA REGNELLII. Native of Brazil. 
A lovely species with narrow flat pseudobulbs with apical leaves a foot long and 
14 inches across, the basal sheathing leaves being much shorter. The scape bears 
a number of flowers each about 2 inches wide; the spreading sepals and petals 
are recurved at the tips and are white in colour. The lip is rosy-purple, darkly 
veined, and has a prominent crest of three yellow ridges. Flowers in Spring and 
lasts about a month. Treatment as for M. cuneata. 
MILTONIA ROEZLII. Native of Colombia. 
One of the finest of all the Miltonias, with clustered, rather compressed, ovate 
pseudobulbs between 1 and 2 inches high and sheathed in the bases of the side 
leaves. The apex carries a single leaf about a foot high, and less than an inch 
across, sharply pointed, thin of texture and pale green in colour. Scapes carry 
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