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M. Eeglielli purpurea, Hort. — This is a most charming 

 form of M. Regnelli, and very rare. The habit of growth is 

 the same in both, but in the form 

 here referred to the spike is longer, 

 and the flowers are larger, and al- 

 together superior in colour ; the 

 sepals and petals are delicate rose, 

 margined with white, and the broad 

 flat emarginate lip is of an intense 

 magenta- crimson, the three crests 

 being white, and accompanied by 

 several small pinkish stripes. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 72 ; Floral 



Mag., t. 490. MILTONIA REGNELLI PURPDREA. 



M. spectabilis, LimUey. — A beautiful and well-known 

 popular Orchid, which grows about six inches high, and pro- 

 duces its large solitary showy flowers in July and August, 

 lasting six weeks in beauty if kept in a cool house and 

 free from damp. The pseudobulbs are oval, ancipitous, 

 and covered by a pair of hgulate leaves, of a tern 

 yellow colour, and the one-flowered scapes are clothed with 

 large fuscous keeled bracts. The handsome flowers have 

 the spreading oblong petals and the recurved petals all 

 white, while the obovate plicate lip, which is large, measuring 

 two inches across, is of a deep violet-purple at the base 

 and along the deep furrows, the middle portion being of a 

 fine deep rosy crimson, and the rest of the surface more or 

 less flushed with pink ; the column has two conspicuous 

 purple ears or wings, and the disk bears three lamellae. Of 

 this beautiful species there are some varieties much better 

 than others. It is a most desirable old plant, and easily 

 grown into a good specimen. — Brazil. 



FlG.—Bof. Mag., t. 4204; Boi. Reg., t. 1992; Jllust. Hort., t. 21fi; l.em. 

 Jard. FL, t. 108 ; Paxton, Mag. Bat, vii. 97, with tab. ; Hart. Farad., i. t. 

 11 ; Knowles ^ Westc. Floral Cab., t. 45. 



Syn. — Macrochilus Fryanus. 



M. spectabilis Moreliana. — A very handsome and most 

 desirable plant, the flowers of which resemble those of 

 M. spectabilis in every particular except colour, as does also 

 the habit of growth, thas confirming the view now generally 

 held that it is merely a highly-coloured and superior variety 

 of that species. The coluur of the sepals and petals is of a 



