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on the Serra de Estrada, but no such locality is to be found on 

 any modern map of Brazil within our reach. Thus in the case of 

 three of the longest known and finest of the Brazilian Miltonias, 

 spectahills, Candida, and cuneata, the dates of their discovery, the 

 names of their discoverers, and their precise habitats are virtually 

 unknown. 



Miltonia spectabilis. 



The subject of our present notice was originally sent to the 

 Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society from Brazil, in 1835, 

 by a Mr. Fry, and was dedicated to that gentleman by Knowles and 

 Westcott in their Floral Cabinet under the name of Macrocliilus Fryanus, 

 but as this name was published one month later than Dr. Lindley's 

 Miltonia spectabilis in the Botanical Register, it cannot be accepted. 

 It flowered for the first time in this country in Messrs. Loddiges' 



