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much stronger in its growth, but the flowers are also larger 

 and brighter in colour. It flowers in September, and is best 

 grown in a pot with peat and moss. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, v., t. 200. 



M, Clowesii, Liudley. — -This showy plant produces its long 

 racemes of flowers during September and October, and lasts 

 a long time in perfection, sometimes extending into November 

 and December. The pseudobulbs are ovate, two-edged, 

 narrowed upwards, two-leaved, the leaves narrow ligulate, 

 yellowish, and the scape rachcal, bearing a rather lax raceme. 

 The flowers have both sepals and petals yellow, cross-banded 

 and nearly covered with chestnut broAvn, and the lip, which is 

 cordate, constricted in the middle, having its plurilamellate 

 base of a deep violet, and its subrotund attenuated apex 

 white. Of this species there are several forms, but the 

 variety called M. Clowesii major is the best. It should be 

 grown in a pot with peat and moss. — Brazil: Organ Moimtains. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4109 ; Sertum Orch., t. 34 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., ix. 241, 

 with tab. ; Gartenjlora, t. 160. 



Syn. — Brassia Clowesii; Odontoglossum Clowesii. 



MILTONIA CCNEATA. 



M. Cimeata, Lhulley. — A very pretty and free-growing 

 species, which reaches about ten inches in height, and 



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