MILTONIA. 



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Cordillera, almost parallel with the River Magdalena, near Ocana ; it 

 grows chiefly on the trunks and branches of trees in more or less 

 shade, and always in humid situations at 4,000 — 5,000 feet elevation; 

 it also occurs iu the Carara district under similar conditions, but at 

 a lower elevation. 



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Miltouia Phaktiiopsi.s. 



M. Regnelli. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, 2 — 3 inches long, pale yellow- 

 green, dipbyllous. Leaves linear-ligulate, acute, about a foot long. 

 Peduncles as long as, or longer than the leaves, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers 

 flat, 2—3 inches across vertically; sepals and petals white, sometimes 

 faintly tinted with rose towards their base, the sepals oblong-lanceolate, 

 apiculate ; the petals broader, elliptic-oblong, acute ; lip broadly obcordate, 

 obscurely three-lobed, light rose streaked with rose-purple and with a 

 Avhite margin; crest consisting of 7—9 radiating pale yellow lines, of 

 wbich the three central ones are the niost prominent and most brightly 

 coloured. Column wings jiarrow, prolongcMl upwards. 



Miltonia Kcgnelli, Rchb. in Lian.-Ba, XXII. p. 851 (1848). Id. Xen. Orch. I. 

 p. 133, t. 47, icon. xyl. Lindl. Fol. Orch. Milt. No. 5 (1853). Bot. Maff. t. 5436. 

 De Puydt, Les Orch. t. 26. Godelroy's OrchidophUe, 188!), p. ] 13 ([lurpurea ?). 

 M. oereola, IIlus. hort. XII. t. 446 (1865). Oncidiuni Kegnelli, Rchb. in Wain. 

 Ann. VI. p. 760 (1863). 



Sub-vars.— i>?</7^»;v'a {FL Mag. 1870, t. 490. Williams' Orch. Alb. II. 

 t. 72), sepals and petals liglit rose-purple margined with white, lip rich 



