DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 3 19 



of Peru, bearing branching spikes of lovely rose-colored 

 flowers. It is a most desirable plant, but not very com- 

 mon. 



A. Mesospinidium vulcanicum. Upper Amazon. 



B. M., 6001. 



This plant resembles an Epidendrum. Flowers in 

 spikes from the lower leaf of the pseudo-bulb, rosy red, 

 with a little yellow on the lip. 



These plants may be grown in pots or on blocks ; they 

 do not need much heat, and are impatient of too much 

 water, but must not dry up even when at rest. 



Miltonia. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Dedicated to Viscount Milton, Earl Fitzwilliam. 



B. Miltonia anceps. Brazil . . . B. M., 5572. 



Reich. Xen., i, 21. 



A rare species. Flowers dark olive ; lip reddish pur- 

 ple, on white ground. 



A. Miltonia bicolor. 



This plant is probably a variety of Miltonia spectabilis, 

 which it much resembles ; flowers large, white ; lip white, 

 with violet mark. 



A. Miltonia Candida. Brazil . . . Sert. O., tab. 21. 



Pax. Mag., 6, 241. 



B. M, 3793. 



Perianth yellow, richly marked with reddish brown \ 

 lip pure white, marked with violet. Blooms in autumn. 



