110 MILTOXIA. 



nursery at Hackney in 1837, and a little later in the same year in 

 Mr. George Barker's collection at Birmingham. It has been frequently 

 imported since, and among these importations have appeared from 

 time to time the various forms described above. The variety 

 Moreliana is one of the most remarkable colour deviations from the 

 typical form to be found among orchids;* it was sent to M. Morel, 

 of St. Mande, near Paris, in 1846, by his Brazilian correspondent, 

 M. Porte, and was shortly afterwards cultivated by Messrs. Knight 

 and Perry, our predecessors at the Royal Exotic Nursery. All the 

 sub-varieties noted above aie decidedly handsome, and most of them 

 well-marked horticultural forms. 



The estimation in which Miltonia spectabiUs is held, has found 

 expression in the unusual number of coloured plates of it and its 

 varieties that have appeared in the horticultural periodicals at intervals 

 from the date of its first flowering in this country down to the 

 present time. 



M. vexillaria. 



Leaves linear-lanecolato, acute, keeled hencatli, iinbricato at Ijase, 

 distichous and alternate, usually G — 8 tii one growth, the lower two 

 shorter than those above, and the upper two partiidly enclosing at their 

 l)ase a flattened oval-oblong pseudo-bull) 1^- — 2| inches long, which is 

 luonophyllous at the apex, the whole plant of a glaucous pea-green 

 colour. Scapes usually two from each pseudo-bulb, but sometimes three 

 or more, slender, arcliing, 12 — 20 inches long, racemed, 4 — 7 flowered. 

 Flowers variable in size and colour, 3 — 4 inches across vertically, usually 

 light rose-colour, but often A-arying from rose-carmine to almost 

 wliite or white flushed with light rose ; sepals and petals similar and 

 sub-equal, obovate-oblong ; lip flat, sub-orbicular, two-lobed in front, and 

 with a small ovate ascending auricle on each side at the base ; crest 

 yellow, two-lobed at base, }»rolonged in front into three short teeth. 

 Colunui Avings obsolete. 



Miltonia vexilhiria, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. p. 327 (ISSl). Benth. et 

 Hook. Gen. Plant, III. p. 563 (1883). Nicholson, Diet. Gaid. II. p. 369, with fig. 

 Sander's llcichenbachia, I. s. 2, t. 29. Odontowlossum vexillarium, IJchb. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1867, p. 901 ; 1872, p. 667 ; 1873, pp. 580 and QU with figs. Id. Xen. Orch. 

 11. p. 190, t. 182. Bot. Maij. t. 6037. Fl. Mag. n.s. t. 73. Batem. Monogr. Odont. 

 t. 29. Jennings' Orch. t. 36. Ilhis. hort. XX. t. 113. Revue hort. 1876, p. 390. 

 AVarrer's Sd. Orch. II. t. 38. Behj. hort. XXX. p. 257. Van Houtte's Fl. des 

 Serres, XX. t. 2058. 



* The reader will here doubtless call to mind the equally remarkable variety of Vanda 

 Parishii called Marriottiana. 



