MILTONIA SPECTABILIS MORELIANA. — 
[PLATE 364.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Anther naked, containing two pollen masses, which are of a waxy consistency, 
furrowed behind, with an obovate caudicle, and oblong gland. 
Minron1a specrapriis Moreiiana, Henfrey, Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany, 
m. 41; Lindley, Folia Orchidacea, art. Miltonia, i.; Reichenbach fil., Xenia 
Orchidacea, i., 180; Warner’s Select Orchidaccous Plants, i., t. 32; Jennings’ 
Orchids, t. 37; Moore’s Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, Miltonia, t. 1.: 
Floral Magazine, Second Series, t. 143; Flore des Serres, t, 1008; Garden, 1887, 
t. 593; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., p. 413; Lindenia, iii., t. 105. 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS PURPUREA-VIOLACEA, Botanical Magazine, t. 4425. 
Mizronta Morettana, Hort. 
ONCIDIUM SPECTABILE Morewiana, Reichenbach fil., Walper’s Annales Botanices 
Systematice, vi., 759 
Miltonia is a very beautiful genus of Orchids, the members of which are, for 
the most part, natives of Brazil; and the variety we here figure is one of the 
most beautiful in the family. The genus was established by Lindley upon M. spectabilis, 
of which the plant now in question is considered but a variety. The name was 
given in honour of Viscount Milton, who at that time was an extensive grower of, 
and paid special attention to this particular order of plants. M. spectabilis is a 
grand old Brazilian species, which has been in cultivation upwards of fifty 
years, and many years ago specimens some two and three feet across were to be 
seen in our public exhibitions and in our plant houses, bearing a profusion of 
flowers, and that too at a season of the year when Orchid flowers were somewhat 
Scarce; but at the present time Orchid flowers may be maintained in a continued 
Succession the whole year round. Many of the fine old specimens of this plant 
were grown in former days with ordinary warm-house plants in the stove. 
The subject we have before us is a beautiful variety of Miltonia spectabilis, from 
which it differs only in the colours of its flowers. It is most distinct and 
showy, and of just that hue which is rare amongst this order of plants, and 
