MILTONIA. Ill 



var.— Leopoldii. 



Sepals and petals rocurved beyond the middle, rose snffnsed Avith 

 white ; lip concave, of a deepen* rose than th(.' other segments, and witli 

 a deep blood-red blotch at the base, of triangular shape, having a Itroad 

 cusp at the apex and two short lateral rays. 

 M. vexillaria Leopoldii, Hort. et supra. 



var. — rubella. 



Flowers smaller than in the original type and ajtiJcaring later in the 



year, rose-pink, the sepals and petals ))ordered with white, the lip with 



a large white space in front of the yellow disk. 



M. vexillaria rubella, supra. Odontocrlossum vexillarium rubellum, Hort. Oil. 

 vexillarium Klabochianum, Hort. 



var.— stupenda. 



Flowers the largest of the species yet seen, vertical diameter .5 inches, 

 breadth of the labellum 3| — 4 inches ; colour light rose suffused with 

 white. 



M. vexillaria stupenda, supra. 



SUb-vars. (distinguished by colour only).— alba (Williams' Orch. AII>. V. 

 t. 227, syn. ]\Ir. Measures' var. syn. Fairy Queen), pure white, some- 

 times Avith a faint roseate tinge at the base of the sepals and petals ; 

 alhicans, white with a few red streaks in front of the pale yellow disk 

 of the labellum ; Herr Lehnann's (Gard. Chron. XIII. (1880), p. .586), 

 sepals and petals rose, the lateral sepals Avitli three dark stripes, the 

 white area of the labellum also striped ; leucoglosmmi (Gard. Chron. 

 XIV. (1880), p. 296), sepals and petals light rose, lip white; Mr. Cohh's, 

 sepals and petals light rose passing into white at the margin, lip Avhite 

 with three small orange-yellow lines, at the base of which the middle 

 one is the longe.st ; Mr. HilVs (Gard. Chron. XIV. (1880), p. 296), 

 rose with two purple lines on the lateral sepals and three at the base 

 of the labellum, which is dotted M-ith purple ; Mrs. H. Ballanfine 

 sepals white, petals with the central area rose-pink, lip rose-pink with 

 a narrow white margin and with a white transverse band in front of 

 the yellow disk ; M. Wiofs (Gard. Chron. XVII. (1882), p. 826), 

 white with two short 2)urple lines on the lateral sepals and three in 

 front of the yellow disk of the labellum; rosea (Williams' Orch. Alb. VIII. 

 t. ;-^48), bright rose with a narroAV white zone in front of the yellow disk 

 of the labellum; rubra (Fl. Mag. N.s. t. 461), deep rose, tln' \\\) with 

 darker veins and with three divergent blood-red streaks in front of the 

 yellow disk ; Sander's (Gard. Chron. X. s. 3 (1891), p. 394), sepals 

 white flushed with light rose, the lateral two with dotted crimson lines 

 near the base, petals light rose, lip with a sanguineous triangular blotch 

 Avith several thick lines radiating from it; snpcrha (Gard. Chron. XVI 

 (1881), p. 3t4. AVilliams' Orrh.^ A/b. IV. t. 171. Lindenia V. t. 20l" 



