]\IILTONIA. 



99 



PcMluncIes stoutish, 15 — 20 inches long, 3 — 5 tlowenMl. FloAVcrs 3 inches 



in diameter; sepals and jietaLs similar and sul)-equal, nairowly ohlong, 



apiculate, chestnut-brown tipped and spotted with yellow; lip roundish 



ol)0\-ate with umUdate margin, convolute into a broad funnel like tube, 



white with t\vi> light violet-purple blotches on the disk, and Avith 5 — 7 



raised lines that are slightly divergent, of which the two next the 



middle erne are more prominent than the otliers. Column with a narn.w 



wing on each side of the stigma. 



Miltonia Candida, Lindl. in Bot. Res. 1838, misc. No. 29, and 1845, sub. t. 8. 

 Id. Sert. Orch. t. 21. Id. Fol. Orch. Milt. No. 9. Paxt. Mag. Bot. VI. p. 241. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3793 (flavesccns). Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 132, t. .54 (Jenischiana). 

 "Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 200 (grandiflora). Oncidiuiu candiduin, Rchb. in Walp. 

 Ann. VI. p. 763 (not Lindl.) 



Miltonia Candida. 



Long known as one of the hand.somest of the Brazilian Miltonias, 

 but of which nothing has been recorded of its habitat or of its 

 discovery. It flowered for the first time in this country (imperfectly) 

 in Messrs. Loddiges' nursery in 1833. According to Sir William 

 Hooker it was originally imported from Brazil by the Earl of Arran, 

 by whom it was communicated to the Boyal Botanic Garden at 

 Glasnevin^ whence were derived the materials for the plate and 

 description in the Botniiical Magazine. The species is slightly variable 

 in the colour of its flowers which are produced in the autumn 

 months. 



