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witli rich deep rosy lake in broad unequal bands with a few- 

 detached blotches. It flowers during summer, and remains in 

 perfection for several weeks. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Illmt. Eort., t. 524. 

 Syn. — 31. rosea; M. Warneri. 



Ml Warscewiczii, Bchb. f. — A very distinct and handsome 

 plant, which has borne in gardens several names, including 

 Oncidium fuscatum , but which our chief authorities now place 

 under Milionia. It has tall flattened narrow oblong pseudo- 

 bulbs, oblong obtuse pale green leaves, and nodding panicles 

 of numerous crowded flowers, whose peduncle springs from the 

 axil of an accessory leaf sheathing the bulb. The short sepals 

 and petals are bluntly cuneate ligulate and prettily undulated, 

 dark brownish purple tipped with white, and the sessile lip 

 is nearly orbicular, deeply bilobed, of a velvety brownish 

 purple margined with rosy lilac, giving a roundish outline to 

 the purple area, in the midst of which there is a transversely 

 oblong shining patch, which from being glossy appears to be 

 of a different colour ; there is also a yellow spot on the disk. 

 The column is very short, purple at the base. It blooms in 

 the spring months. — Peru; New Grenada. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5843 ; Flore des Serres, t. 1831. 



Syn. — Oncidium fuscatum. 



M, Warscewiczii Weltoni, Moore. — A variety of M. Warsce- 

 tviczii, which, though difiering in many points, is obviously of 

 the same specific type. In its flat oblong pseudobulbs, oblong 

 leaves, and paniculate inflorescence, it is quite like the type, 

 but the flowers appear to be smaller, and the sepals and 

 petals have the ground colour olive brown, with the tips 

 yellow instead of white. The lip is smaller, roundish-ovate, 

 bilobed, but without an apiculus ; the purple colour is cut off 

 straight at about two-thirds the length of the lip, and the 

 apical part is distinctly white. There are many connecting 

 links known to botanists, and this has led to the two plants 

 being regarded as strictly synonymous. — Peru; New Grenada. 



Fig.— lllust. Hart., 3 ser., t. 156. 



Syn. — Oncidium Weltoni, 



M. Warscewiczii xanthina, Echb. f. — A pleasing variety, 

 in which the flowers are almost wholly yellow ; the sepals 

 and petals are yellow, and the lip is of a light yellow with a 

 narrow white border, there being no purple as in the type. 

 It blooms in the winter season, and was first flowered with 

 W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead. — Peru. 



