MILTONIA. 



107 



M. Schroederiana. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoul-obloiig, 1| — 2 inches long, diphyllous. Loaves 

 linear-oblong, acute, 5 — 7 inches long. Scapes erect, longer than the 

 leaves, racemed above, 7 — 9 flowered ; bracts small, acute, giumaceous. 

 Flowers fragrant, 2| inches across vertically ; sepals and petals with 

 revolute margins, linear-oblong, acute, chestnut-brown tipped and marked 

 with light yellow ; the sepals keeled behind, the lateral two divergent 

 and a little longer than the dorsal one, the petals falcately turned 

 towards the dorsal sepal ; lip sub-pandurate, the basal half nearly ol)long, 

 rose-purple, tlie apical half sub-quadrate, apiculate, convex above, milk- 

 white ; crest consisting of three protuberances with a shallow raised line 

 on each side of them. Column white above, yellow in front, the wings 

 ver}'^ narrow. 



Miltoiiia Schroederiana, supra. Odontoglossum Scliroedeviaua, Kclib. iu Gard. 



Chrou. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 364. WiUiams' Orch. Alb. VIIL t. 382. Sander's 



Beichenhachia, II. t. 96. 



Miltonia Schroederiana. 



A very handsome species imported from Central America by 

 Messrs. Sander and Co. some time prior to 1885, in January of 

 which year a plant was exhibited by Baron Schroeder at the Royal 

 Horticultural Society's meeting ; it is still very rare in British 

 gardens. We are indebted to Baron Schroeder for materials for 

 figuring and description.* 



* The plant described by lieichenbaeli in the Gardeners' Chronicle of 1882, Vol. XVII., 

 ]). 700, under tiie name of Odontocjloskum Schroederianum, and which is also in Baron 

 Schroeder's collection at The Dell, is a true Odontoglot, and quite distinct from that described 

 under the same name in the Gardenrrs' Chronicle of 1887, vol. I. s. 3, p. 364, which is the 

 Miltonia figured and described above. Roth iu Williams' Orchid Album, IX. sub. t, 382, 

 and Sander's Jieichenbachia, II. sub. t. 96, the two are confused together. 



