116 MILTONTA. 



botanist, Poeppig", wlio detected it in 1830 on the Peruvian Andes, 

 near Cuchiro.* It was next found by the Polish traveller and 

 collector, Warscewicz, v;ho brought to Euiope dried specimens fi-om 

 which the plant was first described, and the species was accordingly- 

 dedicated to him. It was introduced to European gardens by Linden 

 in 1868, through Wallis, probably from New Granada, in which 

 country it had been detected by Purdie many years previously. 

 Quite recently it was found by our collector, Burke, growing on 

 small trees and shrubs close to the ground and on moss-covered 

 stones at 2,000 — ^3,000 feet elevation, near the Rio Verde, in the 

 province of Antioquia. A plant exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in October, 1869, was probably the first 

 that ilowered in this country. Miltonia Warsceiviczii is the only 

 species in the genus yet known with a panicled inflorescence, the 

 flowers of which vary considerably in colour in different plants. 



HYBRID MILTONIAS. 



Supposed Natural Hybrids. 



Two Miltonias of supposed hybrid origin have appeared among the 

 importations of the Brazilian species. The hypothesis of this origin 

 rests upon the presence of characters in the floral and, in a less 

 degree, in the vegetative organs of the offspring that are evidently 

 blend in gs of the characters of the corresponding organs of the pre- 

 sumed parents in the manner described below. 



Miltonia Bluntii. 



Pseudo-1jull)S from a creepiiiL;- rhizome as in Miltonia spedahilis, and 

 bearing two apical leaves of larger size than usually seen in that 

 species Scapes sheathed by ovate-lanceolate bracts and terminating in 

 a few-flowered raceme. Flowers nearly as large as those of M. spectahilis ; 

 sejials and })etals stellate, whitish yellow witli some red-brown blotches 

 in the central area, the sepals lanceolate, tlie petals broader and less 

 acute ; lij) obcordate Avith the side margins depressed, the apical part 

 much undulated and white, the basal part purplish crimson as in 

 M. Qloicesii. 



Miltonia Bluntii, Echb. in Gaid. Chron. XII. (1879), p. 489. 



* We give this on the authority of the late Professor Keichenbach (Xen. Orch. I. p. 132), 

 whose evidence was an imperfect specimen in P<eppig's herbarium. " Eamdem specieni sen 

 valde allinem, jam diu novinius ex herbario Poppigiano sed statu deplorabili. " 



