two to four flat flowers, each about 3 inches wide. The sepals and petals are oblong 
and pointed, pure white blotched with purple at the base. The lip is two-lobed, 
2 inches across at the apex, pure white in colour with a tinge of purple and yellow 
at the crest. This species is one of the most difficult to grow satisfactorily, it 
having a tendency to damp off upon the slightest provocation, and yet it needs 
copious watering at all times. It is also a favourite item on the menu of thrips and 
red spider, for which a constant watch must be kept. It requires plenty of light 
and fresh air, but not direct sunshine. When in good condition it often flowers 
twice in the year, in Winter and Spring, and the flowers last up to five weeks. 
Var. album.—No purple. 
Var. rubrum.—Has more purple than the type. 
Syn. Odontoglossum Roezilii. 
MILTONIA SCHROEDERIANA. Native of Costa Rica. 
This species is both fragrant and beautiful and has ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs with 
a pair of narrow 6-inch leaves at the apex. Racemes bear six to nine flowers nearly 
23 inches across, with chestnut-brown sepals and petals tipped and marked with 
yellow and with curling edges. Lip is rosy-purple at the base and white in front. 
Flowers in Spring and lasts about a month. Cultural treatment as for M. cuneata. 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS. Native of Brazil. (Illustrated.) 
A very variable species, most of the varieties being of outstanding beauty. The 
pseudobulbs grow an inch apart on a stout rhizome. They are oblong in shape, 
very much flattened and from 1 to 3 inches tall, yellowish in colour, and bear a 
pair of apical leaves which vary from 4 to 12 inches in length and are apple-green 
in colour. Scapes are erect and sheathed, and carry a single flower about 4 inches 
across. The pure white sepals and petals are about 2 inches long and nearly an 
‘inch across—they develop a creamy tinge as they mature. The lip, as long as the 
segments, is purplish-crimson with dark veins, the crest being ridged. Flowers in 
Autumn and lasts about a month. Treatment as for var. Moreliana. 
Var. bicolor.—Flowers white and rosy-purple. 
Var. radious—Lip white with radiating purple lines from the crest. 
Var. rosea.—Pseudobulbs narrower and longer than the type, sepals and petals 
rose tinted with rosy bands on the lip. 
Var. virginalis.—Scapes longer, flowers larger, lip rich crimson. 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS var. MORELIANA. Native of Brazil. 
A fine variety of M. spectabilis (q.v.). Pseudobulbs ovate and much compressed, 
2 to 3 inches long, apple-green in colour when young, turning bright yellow with 
age. Apical leaves about 6 inches long and strap-shaped, the basal ones being 
shorter. The pseudobulbs grow from a stout, creeping rhizome and are about 
14 inches apart. The flower scape is some 6 inches high and carries a single 
flower from 2 inches to 44 inches across. Sepals and petals deep wine-purple. 
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