MILTONIA. 



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var.— Lubbersiana. 



Flowers larger than the original form, about 4 inches across vertically ; 



isepals and petals light yellow with broad close-set [)urplish brown bars 



and blotches, and with a ])nr})lc stain at the base ; the basal area of 



the lip purple with several red-brown lines, the apical area much lighter. 



M. Bluntii Lubbersiana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 649. Godefroy's 

 Orchidophile, 1890, p. 176. 



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Miltonia Bluntii, var. Lubbersiana. 



A supposed natural hybrid b(!twecn Miltonia spedahilis and M. 

 Cluwesii, ill wliich the first nanu'(l greatly preponderates in the vegeta- 

 tive organs and the latter in the colour of the flowefs, the segments 

 of which are intermediate between tlie two. The original form was 

 sent to Mr. Eichard Bullen, of the AVoodlands Nursery, Lowisliam, from 

 Rio (le Janeiro, in 1879, by IMuut, formerly orcliid collector for 

 ^Messrs. Low and Co. The variety, wliich is among the handsomest of 



