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MILTOXIA. 



Some months later, the plant (tic), with other novelties, was ae(|uired 

 hy Mr. AVilliam Jiull, of Chelsea, for 250 francs."* 



Such in substance is Eoezl's own account of the discovery of this 

 plant that deservedly bears his name, of which it may be remarked 

 that the locality given is not found on any map to which we have 

 had access, and that the plants in cultivation have, with the above 

 exception, been brought from the valley of the Cauca, on the 

 eastern or opposite side of the western Cordillera. 



Chesterton was the next collector to detect it ; he brought some cases 

 of plants in good condition to our nursery in 1877, but, more suo, 

 did not divulge the true locality in which they had been gathered. 

 He was closely followed by Koezl's nephew, Francis Klaboch, who 

 sent some plants to Europe in the following year; since then it has 

 been frequently imported. Its habitat is now known to be in the 

 province of Antioquia, on the slopes of the hills near the river Atratn, 

 a tributary of the Cauca, growing on trees and rocks mostly in 

 shade at 1,000 — 2,000 feet elevation, sometimes associated with 

 Onchlium Kram erianum . 



M, Russelliana 



Pseudo-bulhs ovate-oblong, compressed, 2 — 3 inches long, diphyllous. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 6 — 9 inches long. Scapes 15 — 24 inches 



long, green mottli'd with dull purple, ; bracts sheathing, acute, pale 



brown, | inch long, the floral (ines shorter. Racemes 5—9 flowered ; 



flowers 2 — 2J inches in diameter when spread out ; sepals and petals 



similar, oblong-lanceolate, acute, reddish brown tipped with pale yellow ; 



lip cuneate-oblong, refuse, apiculate, the lateral margins sub-sinuate, the 



basal two-thirds rose-lilac, the apical third white or light yellow ; disk 



with three raised lines, of Avhich the middle one is the shortest, the 



lateral two dilated in front into two erect plates. Column wings ovate, 



acute, yellow. 



Miltonia Russelliana, Lindl. Sert. Orch. sub. t. 48 (1840). Id. in Bot. Reg. 1845, 

 sub. t. 8. Id. Fol. Orch. Milt. No. 4. Paxt. Mag. Bot. FIT. p. 217 (1840). Rchb. 

 Xen. Orch. I. p. 131. Oncidium Russellianum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1830 (1836). 

 Rchb in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 761 (1863). Kegel's Gnrtcnfl. 1880, t. 1012 (pallidum). 



Introduced to the Woburn collection in 1835 from Rio de Janeiro, 



and named in compliment to the Duke of Bedford. The only habitat 



we find recorded is Tejuco, in the province of Rio de Janeiro. Our 



description is from a plant that was in the Downside collection, since 



dispersed; it is one of the least attractive of the Miltonias, not 



now often seen. 



* Orchidopkilc, 1883, p. 476. 



