104 MILTON I A. 



niaociila-imrph' with diirkor veins and ivticnlations, linos oi tlie crest 

 wliitc, except tlie middle (ine which is Itright yellow. 



A beautiful species discovered by ])r, Kegnell in 1846 in the 

 Brazilian province of Minas Geraes (it is said), but not introduced 

 into European gardens till some years afterwards, its first appearance 

 being at a horticultural exhibition heM at Hamburgh in September, 

 1855 ; the plant had been brought from Santa Catherina in Brazil.* 

 The species had, howevei-, been previously detected in the same 

 province by Devos, the discoverer and introducer of Loelia purpurata, 

 but who failed to send living plants to Europe on account of the 

 length of time occupied, in those days, in the transmission of plants 

 from Brazil to Belgium. A few years after its first appearance in 

 Hamburgh it was communicated by Gautier to M. Verschaffelt, of 

 Ghent, in whose nursery it flowered in 1865, when it was figured 

 in the Illustration liorticole under the name of Miltonia cereola. The 

 sub- variety, a very striking one, wns introduced in 1869. 



Miltonia Begnelll comes nearer to the Colombian Miltonias than 

 any of the Brazilian species, a circumstance the more remarkable as 

 it is geographically the most remote. 



M. Roezlii. 



Pscuclo-l)ulhs ovate-oblong, compressed, 2 — 2| inches long, pale green, 

 monophyllous. Leaves linear, acute, 9 — 12 inches long, pale green. 

 Scapes shorter than or as long as the leaves, rather slender, 2 — 5 

 flowered. Bracts subulate-lanceolate, shorter than the pedicels. Flowers 

 quite flat, 3| — 4 inches across, white Avith a purple blotch at the base 

 of each petal, antl an orange-yellow disk at the liase of the lip ; se]ials 

 obovate-oblong, acute; petals similar but broader; lip broadly obcordate 

 with an angular sinus in tlie anti-iior margin, a small horn-like auricle 

 on each side of the base, and three raised lines on the disk with 

 two small teeth in front of them. Column wings obsolete. 



Miltonia Roezlii, Nicholson, Diet. Gard. II. p. 369(1886). Eev. dcVHort. Belg. 

 1891, p. 132. Odontoglossum Roezlii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1303, with fig. 

 Id. Xen. Orch. 11. p. 191, t. 182, fig. 1. Bot. Mag. t. 6085. Batcm. Monogr. of 

 Odont. t. 30. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 90. The Garden, X. (1876), t. 31. WiUiams' Orch. 

 Alb II. t. 64. Sander's Reichenhachia, II. t. 69. Godefroy's Orchido2)hile, 1886, 

 p. 27, icon. xyl. 



SUb-vars. — a/Aa (Fl. Mat/, n.s. t. 164), flowers wholly white except 

 the yellow disk of the lip, which is paler than in the type ; Warnliam 

 Court, flowers large, the purple blotch on the petals larger and shaded 

 Avith maroon. 



' Fide Rchb. in Xen. Orch. I. p. 134. 



