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deep rich purple, and the broad flat lip is beautifully veined 

 ■with rose. It produces its flowers in September and October, 

 continuing in bloom a long time. — Brazil: Rio Janeiro. 



The following are sub-varieties of this handsome form : — 

 M. spectaMlis Moreliana atrorubens, Hort.—K magnificent 



variety, with the flowers very large, often measuring four 

 inches across, and with the colour much darker than that of 

 M. spectabilis Moreliana ; it blooms in September, and lasts a 

 considerable time in beauty. A scarce plant. — Brazil. 



M. spectabilis Moreliana rosea, RcM. /. — A distinct form_ of 



this old favourite, in which the sepals and petals are white, 

 traversed by a band of pale rose down the centre, and the lip 

 is bright rose, distinctly veined with rosy purple ; it flowers 

 during the summer months. — Brazil. 



YiG.— Gard. Mag. BoL, iii. 41, with tab. ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 32 ; 

 Jennings, Orch., t. 37 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 143 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 27 ; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 4425 ; Moore, 111, Orch. PL, Miltonia, t. 1 ; Flore des Serres, 

 t. 1008. 



Syn. — M, Moreliana; M. purjmrea violacea. 



M. spectabilis radians, Bclib. f. — In this form of M. specta- 

 bilis we have a most chaste -looking and lovely epiphyte, and 

 a most admirable contrast to the highly-coloured M. s])ecta- 

 bilis Moreliana. The habit is that of the type, the pseudo- 

 bulbs being oblong and compressed, the leaves lorate or 

 ligulate and keeled, and the scape ancipitous, springing from 

 the base of the bulb. The flowers are about three inches 

 across and over four inches in depth, the sepals and petals 

 being of a creamy white, and the lip pandurately-obovate 

 retuse and slightly wavy, pure white, with a crest of three 

 yellow linear lamellae blunt and thickened in front, and close 

 upon these a series of about six club-shaped slightly curved 

 bars three-quarters of an inch long of magenta-purple radi- 

 ating from the base, two thin purple lines running back 

 through the crest. The white column is bordered with 

 magenta. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Album,iv. t. 164. 



M. spectabilis rosea, Hort. — This very handsome and rare 

 plant resembles M. spectabilis in its habit of growth, but the 

 pseudobulbs are narrower and longer, as also are the leaves. 

 The flowers, which are large, have the sepals and petals 

 white tinted with light rose, and the lip white irregularly striped 



