MILTONIA 



MIMOSA 



2053 



9. cuneata, Lindl. Pseudobulbs ovate, clustered, 4 in. 

 long, sheathed with Ivs. at the base and 2-lvd. at the 

 apex: Ivs. dark green, strap-shaped, 1 ft. long: scape 

 erect, 5-8-fld., as long as the Ivs.; fls. 3-4 in. across; 

 sepals and petals lanceolate, spreading, mostly choco- 

 late-brown, greenish yellow at the tips, and few spots 

 of the same color; labellum obovate-rotund, slightly 

 wavy, creamy white, with 2 par- 

 allel ridges on the crest. Feb. 

 Brazil. B.R. 31:8. I.H. 7:237. 

 A robust, free-flowering plant 

 of the habit of M. Candida. 



2374. Miltonia flavescens. ( XT) 



10. Warscewiczii, Reichb. f. (Odontoglossum Wei- 

 tonii, Hprt. Onddium fuscatum, Reichb. f. Onddium 

 Weltonii, Hort. M. Weltonii, Hort.). Pseudobulbs 

 3-5 in. long, much flattened: Ivs. linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 5-6 in. long: fls. 2 in. long from the tips of the lip to 

 that of the upper sepal, numerous, borne in a branched 

 nodding panicle; sepals and petals cuneate-obovate, 

 waved and crisped, pale reddish brown, with whitish 

 tips; labellum oblong, fan-shaped, bifid, white, with a 

 large rose-purple disk on the center of which is a large, 

 brownish yellow blotch. March. Peru. B.M. 5843. F. 

 8.18:1831. Var. leucochila, Hort. Fls. pale purple; 

 lower half of lip ruby-purple. 



11. Russelliana, Lindl. (Onddium Russellidnum, 

 Lindl.). Pseudobulbs ovate, ribbed, 2-lvd.: Ivs. nar- 

 rowly lanceolate: fl.-sts. dark purple, few-fld.: sepals 

 and petals ovate-oblong, somewhat undulate, brownish 

 purple with green margins; labellum oblong-cuneate, 

 retuse, apiculate, violet, the crests or lamellse on the 

 disk margined with white. Dec. Brazil. B.R. 1830. 

 P.M. 7:217. Fls. rather small and dull in color. 



12. flavescens, Lindl. Fig. 2374. Pseudobulbs nar- 

 row: Ivs. linear-ensiform : raceme many-fld., the stalk 

 sheathed with bracts; fls. stellate, yellow, with the 

 labellum somewhat spotted with purple; sepals and 

 petals linear-lanceolate, acuminate ; labellum pandurate, 

 undulate-acuminate. June. Brazil. B.R. 1627 (as 

 Cyrtochilum flavescens). Var. grandifldra, Regel. 

 Fls. larger, white at first, becoming whitish yellow; 

 labellum obtuse. Gt. 39:1328. 



M. Bertii=M. BleuanaxM. vexillaria. M. Bleuana, Hort. 

 (Miltoniopsis Bleui, Bleu)=M.|vexillaria X M. Roezlii. In habit like 

 M. vexillaria: fls. 3-4 in. across; sepals and petals white, the latter 

 purple-stained at base; lip nearly orbicular, notched at apex, 

 white veined with pink in front of the yellow disk. Intermediate 

 between the parents. A.F. 6:631; 9:1087. G. F. 5:198, 199. 

 J.H. III. 68:277. O. 1913:104. M. Bleuana grandifldra, a large- 

 fld. form. G.M. 57:267. M. Bleuana Peetersix, Hort.=M. 

 Bleuana Peetersii M. Roezlii X M. vexillaria Leopoldii) X M. 

 Bleuana. Sepals and petals rose-purple below, the color on the 

 sepals lighter; lip with the yellow crest crimson-bordered, with 

 a rose band in front. G.C. III. 49:274. M. Bleuana Stevensii, 

 a dwarf variety with white fls. and lip crimson-striped. M. 

 Bluntii Lubbersiana, Reichb. f. Fls. about 4 in. across; sepals 

 and petals light yellow, blotched and barred with brown; lip purple 

 at base, lined red-brown, the nearly 

 orbicular front lobe lighter. Supposed 

 to be a natural hybrid between M. 

 spectabilis X M. Clowesii. G. 29:563. 

 M.Chdrlesworthii=M. vexillaria "G. 

 D. Owen"xM. Hyeana. M. festiva 

 =M. spectabilis X M. flavescens, prob- 

 ably. M. Hyeana=M. Bleuana X M. 

 vexillaria var. Leopoldii. M. radidla, 

 Hort. "Fls. larger, white, shaded pur- 



pale with a dark maroon eye. Hybrid between M. St. Andre X M. 

 vexillaria "G. D. Owen." Gn. 77, p. 352. M. Schroederiana, Hort. 

 Raceme 7-9-fld.; fls. 2K in. long, fragrant; sepals and petals 

 brown, yellow-marked; petals falcate, turned toward dorsal sepal; 

 lip pandurate, rose-purple at base, the apex white. Cent. Amer. 

 R. 2:96. M. travassosiana, Hort. Apparently a form of M. Reg- 

 nellii with yellow sepals and petals. 



HEINRICH HASSELBRING. 



GEORGE V. NASH.f 



MILTONIODA. Orchidacese. Bigeneric hybrids of 

 Miltonia and Cochlioda. M. Codperi is a garden hybrid 

 between Miltonia Warscewiczii and Cochlioda Noetz- 

 liana; fls. brick-red with lighter tip to labellum, in 

 slender branched spikes. M. Hdrwoodii is a garden 

 hybrid between Miltonia vexillaria and Cochlioda 

 Noetzliana. Fl. about 2 in. long, the sepals and broader 

 petals bright cerise-rose; lip miltonia-like, cream- white 

 freckled with rose. M. Lindenii is a garden hybrid 

 probably of Cochlioda vulcanica and Miltonia Phalse- 

 nopsis. 



MILTONIOPSIS. Garden hybrid, M. Pauwelsiana, 

 between Millonia Roezlii and M. vexillaria var. Leo- 

 poldii, recorded as distinct from other kinds. 



MIMOSA (Greek, a mimic, alluding to the fact that 

 the leaves of some species are sensitive). Leguminbsse. 

 Woody or herbaceous plants, mostly tropical, grown for 

 the showy flowers or feathery foliage; of some species 

 the leaves are sensitive. What the florists know as 

 mimosas are acacias (chiefly A. armata). 



Trees, shrubs or herbs of varying habit (sometimes 

 woody climbers), mostly thorny or prickly, with bipin- 

 nate often sensitive Ivs. (sometimes the Ivs. reduced to 

 phyllodia): fls. not papilionaceous, in close heads or 

 head-like spikes, usually with 4 or 5 united petals, and 

 a minute or obsolete calyx; stamens 4-10, exserted; 

 pollen granular: pod flat, oblong or linear, breaking up 

 into 1-seeded joints when ripe. Mimosa has stamens 

 10 or less (once or twice as many as the petals) ; Acacia 

 has numerous stamens. Of Mimosas there are probably 

 300 species, chiefly of Trop. Amer. A number of the 

 bushy species, and the small trees, are planted more or 

 less in warm countries for ornament. They require the 

 treatment given the woody acacias. 



A. Plant herbaceous or practically so in cult. 

 pftdica, Linn. SENSITIVE PLANT. HUMBLE PLANT. 

 Fig. 2375. Cult, as an annual, but probably perennial 

 in the tropics, and somewhat shrubby, erect, branching, 

 hairy and spiny: Ivs. long-petioled, with 2 or 4 sub- 

 digitate pinnate linear-oblong Ifts. : fls. many, in globu- 

 lar-oblong heads on elongating axillary peduncles, 

 purplish : pods comprising 3 or 4 spiny joints. Brazil, but 

 widely naturalized in warm countries; run wild in the 

 Gulf States. G.W. 2, p. 18. Easily grown from seeds, 

 which are sold by seedsmen. The plant grows readily 

 in any place in which garden beans will thrive. It is 

 grown for its sensitive foliage. The movements are 

 usually quickest in young plants. When the Ivs. are 

 touched, the petiole falls and the Ifts. close. The util- 

 ity and the origin of these movements are not well 

 understood. M. sensitlva, Linn., is a distinct plant 

 (B.R. 25): it is 

 a half - climbing 

 perennial with 2 

 unequally pinnate 

 Ifts., not so sensi- 



2375. Mimosa pudica. Sensitive plant. Normal position of the leaf is shown on the right, 

 and the collapsed position on the left. ( X V) 



