MILLA 



MILTONIA 



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Milla (as Cavanilles, its author, intended) to one 

 Mexican species. From Brodiaea the genus differs in 

 the fact that the pedicels are not jointed and the peri- 

 anth-segms. are always 3-nerved. Milla and Brodisea 

 are native to the northern half of the western hemi- 

 sphere. In S. Amer. is the genus Triteleia, which is by 

 some referred to Milla, by others to Brodiaea, and by still 

 others kept distinct. There is one Triteleia (T. uniflora) 

 in common cult. In his monograph (Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 11, p. 378), Baker refers the triteleias to Milla, and this 

 disposition is followed by Index Kewensis, but in a 

 later account (G.C. III. 20, p. 459) he refers them to 

 Brodiaea. Watson (Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 9, 

 p. 240) restricts Milla to one species. The N. American 

 plants which have been referred to Triteleia are per- 

 haps best treated as brodia^as, and they are so considered 

 in the account of that genus in Vol. I of this work 

 (p. 576). The S. American triteleias are described under 

 that genus in Vol. VI. 



biflora, Cav. Scape 6-18 in. high from a small coated 

 bulb, bearing 1-5 (usually 2) star-like, waxy white, 

 fragrant fls. 2-2 % in. across, with oblong-lanceolate 

 segms. : Ivs. rough, nearly terete. S. Ariz, and New 

 Mex. to Cent. Mex. B.R. 1555. F.S. 14:1459. Gn. 

 24, p. 155. J.H. III. 55:133. G. 6:271. One of the 

 best of the small bulbs. It is known as Mexican star, 

 Mexican star of Bethlehem, frost flower, and floating 

 star. The fls. are of a charming waxy consistence, and 

 are borne on long sts. They are excellent for cutting, 

 and last several days. Planted in the border early in 

 spring, they soon throw up their fls. and Ivs. They 

 should be allowed to remain until Sept. or Oct., when 

 they may be taken up and stored for the winter. Our 

 gardeners know milla mostly as a pot bulb for flowering 

 under glass late in winter or early in spring. It blooms 

 readily in the conditions given to freesias. Several 

 bulbs should be placed in a pot, although a number of 

 stalks will spring from one bulb. The plant is little 

 offered by dealers. L. H. B. 



MILLER, DUSTY: Lychnis Coronaria; also Senecio and 

 Artemisia. 



MILLETS are important agricultural grasses. The 

 true millet or Broom-corn millet of Europe is Panicum 

 miliaceum. The common millets of the United States, 

 the Foxtail millets, are forms of Setaria italica. African 

 millet, also called Black, Chinese, Indian, and 

 improperly Pearl millet, is Holcus Sorghum. The name 

 African millet is sometimes applied to Eleusine Cora/- 

 cana. Barnyard or Japanese millet is Echinochloa 

 frumentacea. Pearl millet is Pennisetum americanum. 

 Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 101 is devoted to 

 foxtail millets. A. S. HITCHCOCK. 



MILLETTIA (named in honor of Dr. J. A. Millett, 

 botanist, and who wrote on China in 1726). Leguminbsx. 

 About 100 or so species of Old World tropical trees and 

 large shrubs, usually climbers; differs from the Japanese 

 and N. American genus Wistaria in the hard usually 

 flat and thick pod not opening so readily : Ivs. large, odd- 

 pinnate; Ifts. opposite, stipellate: fls. showy, in axillary 

 racemes often fascicled, simple or paniculate and term- 

 inal, white, purple or reddish. Although an abundant 

 genus in Trop. Afr. and the far E., it has yielded little 

 for American horticulture. 



A. Fls. purple. 



caffra, Meissn. IRONWOOD. A S. African tree, 

 20-30 ft. high, with very hard close-grained brown 

 wood and dark, rough, rugulose bark: Ivs. on chan- 

 neled petioles 6-8 in. long; Ifts. lanceolate-oblong, 

 acute, in 5-6 pairs, 2-2 Y^ in. long, 1 in. apart; slender 

 stipules 2-3 lines long: panicle 6-8 in. long: fr. leathery, 

 velvety, used as a medicine by the Kafirs. Intro, into 

 Fla.inl891. 



AA. Fls. white. 



japonica, Gray. A Japanese woody climber: Ivs. 

 light green, odd-pinnate; Ifts. narrowly ovate, 4-6 

 pairs, \Yi in. long, 1 in. apart: racemes simple, nod- 

 ding, 5-8 in. long. Probably not hardy in the N. Has 

 been offered by dealers in Japanese plants. S.Z. 1 : 43 

 (Wistaria japonica) . At the Arnold Arboretum (Bos- 

 ton) it kills to ground but comes up in spring, not 

 blooming; on Long Island, it blooms and even fruits. 



L. H. B. 



MILTONIA (named for Lord Fitzwilh'am, Viscount 

 Milton, a patron of horticulture). Orchidacese. Some 

 of the most beautiful orchids in cultivation, with 

 pseudobulbs closely clustered and sheathed with long 

 graceful dark green leaves, forming plants over 1 foot 

 in diameter, bearing numerous large flowers. 



Herbs, with short pseudobulbs, bearing 1-2 Ivs. at 

 the summit and few or many sheathing Ivs. at the base: 

 the infl. arises from the base of the pseudobulbs, and 

 consists of a single-fld. peduncle or of a loose raceme 

 of long-pedicelled fls.; sepals sub-equal, spreading, free 

 or the lateral ones slightly united; petals similar or a 

 little wider; labellum not distinctly clawed, large, 

 expanded, not 3-lobed, but often bifid at the apex; 

 both the segms. and the labellum are expanded, form- 

 ing a flat fl.; column short. About 20 species, mostly 

 from Brazil. M. Roezlii, M. vexillaria, and some closely 

 related kinds were until recently known in gardens as 

 odontoglossums. In the group containing the "true" 

 miltonias, the pseudobulbs are separated from each 

 other on the rhizome, and bear 1-2 yellowish green 

 Ivs. at the summit and few sheathing Ivs. of the same 

 color at the base. The fls. of nearly all miltonias 

 remain on the plants in a fresh condition for a month 

 or more. The leading species run into many horticul- 

 tural forms listed under Latin names. 



alba, 1, 4. 

 bicolpr, 5. 

 Candida, 8. 

 Clowesii, 7. 

 Cobbiana, 2. 

 cuneata., 9. 

 Endresii, 3. 

 flavescens, 12. 

 gigantea, 2. 



INDEX. 



grandiflora, 2, 12. 

 leucochila, 10. 

 Moreliana, 5. 

 Phalaenopsis, 4. 

 picta, 2. 

 purpurea, 6. 

 Regnellii, 6. 

 Roezlii, 1. 



rosea, 2. 



rosefieldiensis, 7. 

 Russelliana, 11. 

 epectabilis, 5. 

 euperba, 8. 

 vexillaria, 2. 

 Warscewiczii, 10. 

 WeUonii, 10. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



A. Pseudobulbs crowded, with numerous 

 dark or gray-green sheathing Ivs. at 

 the base. 



B. Labellum sagittate at the base 1. 



2. 

 BB. Labellum not sagittate, constricted in 



middle, (broadly panduriform) ... 3. 



4. 



AA. Pseudobulbs situated at intervals on the 



rhizome, with few yellowish green Ivs. 



B. Segms. of perianth broad, ovate to 



oblong. 

 C. Perianth uniformly colored white, 



rose or purple 5. 



6. 



cc. Perian'h variegated, yellow and 

 brown or brown and green. 



D. Labellum fiddle-shaped 7. 



DD. Labellum broadly obovate 8. 



9. 



DDD. Labellum oblong 10. 



11. 

 BB. Segms. of perianth linear-lanceolate. . 12. 



Roezlii 

 vezillaria 



Endresii 

 Phalaenopsis 



spectabilis 

 Regnellii 



Clowesii 



Candida 



cuneata 



Warscewiczii 



Russelliana 



flavescens 



1. Roezlii, Nichols. (Odontogldssum Roezlii, Reichb. 

 f.). Pseudobulbs narrowly ovate, 1-2 in. long: Ivs. 

 numerous, slender, 8-12 in. long, narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate: scapes about half as long as the Ivs., bear- 

 ing 2-3 large fls.; fls. flat, 3-3 1 /% m - across, pure white, 

 with a purple band at the base of the petals and a 

 yellow stain, more or less marked with reddish brown 



