102 MILTONIA. 



sheatlied Ity distichous and alternate pale brown raemliraneous bracts, 



the floral Itracts linear, acuminate, longer than the pedicels. Eaccme 



7 — 10 flowered; sepals and petals linear-oblong, acute, 2 inches long, 



straw-yellow, the petals a little broader and shorter than the sepals; 



lip shorter than the other segments, ovate-oblong, acute Avith undulate 



margin, slightly contracted below the middle, white streaked and marked 



with red-purple on the basal half, which is also pubescent and traversed 



by 4 — 6 radiating lines. Column wings obsolete. 



Miltonia flavescens, Lindl. Sort. Orcli. sub. t. 48 (1839). Id. in Bot. Reg. 1845, 

 sub. t. 8. Id. Fol. Orch. Milt. No. 6. Rchb. Xeii. Orch. I. p. 129. Kegel's 

 Gartcnfl. 1890, t. 1328. Cyrtochilum stellatum, Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 7. C. 

 flavescens, Lindl. iu Bot. Reg. t. 1627 (1833). Oncidiuin flavescens, Rchb. m 

 Walp. Ann. VI. p. 757 (1863). 



Originally discovered by the French traveller and naturalist, Des- 



courtilz, in the early part of the present century, near Banana!, in 



the Brazilian province of Minas Geraes, and subsequently gathered 



by Eegnell, Miers, and other botanists in southern Brazil. It was 



introduced in 1882 by Mr. William Harrison, a British merchant 



residing at Eio de Janeiro, who sent plants to his brother Richard 



at Aigburth, Liverpool. In a horticultural sense the species is not 



in high repute, but it is botanically interesting as connecting Miltonia 



with Brassia, it differing from the last named genus in little except 



the stellate arrangement of the sepals and petals, which are nearly 



of equal length, and the long acuminate bracts. 



M. Phalsenopsis. 



I Pseudo-bull)S ovoid, compressed, 1- — 1|- inches long, pale green, mono- 



diphyllous. Leaves linear, 5 — 9 inches long, complicate at base, tapering 



at apex, pale green. Scapes shorter than the leaves, 3 — 5 flowered. 



Flowers flat, 2 — 2| inches in diameter; sepals and petals Avliite, the 



sepals oval-oblong, acute, the petals l)roader, elliptic, obtuse; lip four- 



lobcd, the basal lobes short, rotund, white Avith some light pin^ple 



streaks ; the anterior lobes larger, sub-cpiadratc, Avliite lilotched Avith light 



piu'ple ; crest Avith three small bhuat teeth, on each side of Avhich is 



a yelloAV spot. Column Avings very short. 



Miltonia Phalsenopsis, Nicholson, Diet. Gard. IT. p. 369 (1886), with fig. M. 

 pulchella, Hort. ex Batem. Odontoglossum Pha]a?nopsis, Rchb. in Bonpl. II. 

 p. 278 (1854). Id. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 844. Linden's Peso. t. 44. Warner's 

 Scl. Orch. I. t. 30. Batem. Monogr. Odont. t. 3. 



This was the first of the group of Colombian Miltonias distinguished 

 by their large flat floAvers and pallid foliage that was introduced 

 into European gardens, it having been sent to M. Linden's horti- 

 cultural establishment at Brussels by Schlim, in 1850. Its principal 

 station is on the western slopes of a branch of the eastern 



