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designate them by name ; those designated above are fairly distinct 

 and may without difficulty be identified. This variability in colour 

 is, however, one of the greatest excellencies of the species in a 

 horticultural sense, and the large groups of Miltonki vexiUaria now 

 to be seen in many of the orchid collections in this country afford 

 in their flowering season, May and June, one of the most attractive 

 floral sights that can be produced from among the Orciiide.k.* 



M. Warscewiczii. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, compressed, 4 — 5 inches long, 1 inch broad, 

 monophyllous. Leaves linear-oblong obtuse, 5-7 inches long. Sca})es 

 exceeding in length the jiseudo-bulbs and leaves, usually panicled but 

 sometimes racemed, many -flowered ; bracts acuminate, shorter than the 

 ovary. Elowers somewhat crowded, 2 inches across vertically ; sepals 

 and petals similar and sul)-e(iual, oblong-spathulate, luidulate, brownish 

 red, sometimes yellow, sometimes white at the tip ; lip broadly oblong 

 with a medium cleft in the anterior margin, rose-purple with a red- 

 brown disk and Avhite margin, white at the very base Avhere there 

 are two small yeUow teeth. Column wings rouutled, red-purple, 



Miltonia Warscewiczii, Rclib. Xen. Oroh. I. i>. Vi2 (1855). Id. iu Gard. Chruii. 

 1867, p. 277 ; V. (1876), p. ?,9i ; VII. (1877), y. 202. But. Mag. t. 5843. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. V. t. 216. Oucidium fuscatuni, Itclib. in Walp. Ann. VI. j). 763 (1863). 

 Van Houtte's Fl. dm Serves, XVIII. t. 1831. llUa. hort. XXI. t. 156. Odonto- 

 glossuni Welfoniij Hort. 



Miltouia Warscewiczii. 



A very handsome species originally discovered by the German 



* The enormous inroads constantly being made upon Miltonia vexiUaria by orchid colli ctors 

 in New Granada would seem to tlin-aten its extinction were it not that the e.xten-sive geogra- 

 phical area over which it is disi>ersed attbrds an assurance that it exists in (juantity too large to 

 be sensibly diminished by that means, except in particular localities, for a long time to come. 

 Moreover, the reproductive jiower of the plant is so great as to secure its perpetuation against 

 adverse influences, llerr Lehmann estimates that about 75 per cent, of the flowers produce 

 capsules in a wild state with germinating seeds ; the seeds easily and quickly germinate, but 

 many of the young plants perish. 



