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The first notice of MiUonia cuncata occurred in 1844, at wliicli date 

 it was cultivated by Messrs. Rollisson at their nursery at Tooting; 

 many years afterwards it was sent to M. Verschaffelt's horticultural 

 establishment at Ghent by a French correspondent, M. Pinel, from 

 Brazil. Beyond this not a scrap of information is forthcoming 

 respecting its habitat, its discoverer, or the date of its introduction. 



M. Endresii. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, 1| — 2 inches long, monophyllous. 



Leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, 9 — 12 inches long, pale green. Scapes 



as long as the leaves, slightly compressed, pale green, 3 — 5 flowered ; 



bract small, acute, appressed. Flowers flat, 2^ inches in diameter, on 



rather long pedicels, white with a light red-purple blotch at the base of 



each segment; sepals and petals similar and svib-equal, oval-oblong, acute, 



the dorsal sepal apiculate ; lip broadly panduriform, the basal lobes small, 



roundish, the front lobe with a shallow sinus in the anterior margin; 



crest semi-lunate, produced into three short keels in front, pubescent, 



bright yellow. Column wings very narrow, light rose-purple. 



Miltonia Endresii, Nicholson, Diet. Gard. II. p. 368 (1886). Odontoglossum 

 Warscewiczii, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit. 1852, p. 692. Id. Gard. Chron. III. (1875) p. 270. 

 Id. Xen. Orch. I. p. 208, t. 81. Bot. Mag. t. 6163. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Odont. p. 24. 



This is one of the rarest species of the genus; it was discovered 



by Warscewicz about the year 1849 on the Cordillera of Veragua, at 



4,500 — 6,000 feet elevation, growing upon leguminous trees; it was 



detected by its discoverer only in two localities, in both of which 



the plants appeared to be very restricted in numbers. Twenty-two 



years afterwards it was re-discovered by Wallis while collecting plants 



for M, Linden, but who failed to introduce it into European gardens. 



It was not till 1873, when it was found by Endres while collecting 



plants for us in Central America, that its introduction was at length 



eflfected under very difficult circumstances. The first introduction 



consisted of a single plant only, and a very small one too, all the 



others collected with it having perished during transmission ; but two 



years later Endres succeeded in bringing home a few plants, one of 



which flowered in our Chelsea nursery in 1875. As a species it is 



distinct, its systematic place being between M. Phalcenopsis and 



M. Roezlii. 



M. flavescens. 



Pseudo-bulbs oval-oblong, 4 — 5 inches long, compressed, diphyllous. 

 Leaves linear-ligulate, about a foot lung. Scapes longer than the leaves 



