MILTONIA CUNEATA. 
[Puatr 46.] ‘ 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, light green, diphyllous. Leaves 
ligulate-oblong, striate, somewhat carinate beneath, of a cheerful green colour. ape 
radical, erect, bearing a five to eight flowered raceme, each of the pedicels having 
at its base a whitish glumaceous triangular bract about half as long as the ovary. 
Flowers large and showy, with a broad flat white lip; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 
narrowed to the base, of a deep chocolate-purple with a yellowish green tip on 
which is a dark spot, the margins undulated, the lateral ones connate at the base; 
petals similar in form, size, and colour: lip white, with a pink tinge, and one or 
two chocolate spots near the base, wedge-shaped, with a narrow claw-like base and 
a broad flat anterior expanded portion, somewhat repand on the margin, and furnished 
on the disk with two raised plates or lamellae. Obolumn short, creamy white, 
bidentate on the middle portion, the anther-bed cucullate, membranaceous, denticulate, 
retuse. 
MILTONIA CUNEATA, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1844, misc. 28 ; 1845, t.. 85 
Ld., Folia Orchidacea, art. Miltonia, No. 8; Reichenbach. Jil., Xenia Orchidacea, 
1131; Moore, Illustrations of Orchidaceous Plants, art. Miltonia, 7 t. 2; Lemaire, 
L’Mlustration Horticole, t. 237; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed., 223. 
Minronta sprctosa, Klotzsch, in Otto and Dietrich’s Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, 
Xvi. 129, 
Oncriptum spxctosum, Reichenbach jil., MSS.; Id., Walpers’ Annales Botanices 
761... 
Systematice, vi. 
This genus of Orchids is not a very extensive one, but among the species 
which are known there are some beautiful plants of distinct and striking character. 
The species which we now represent is a very pretty one, which we are pleased 
to have the opportunity of introducing to the notice of our readers, The specimen 
figured was grown in the fine collection of W. Cobb, Esq., of Sydenham, who is 
4 great lover of Orchids, and makes it a study to procure the best kinds and 
‘cultivate them in the best possible manner. | 
Miltonia cuneata was introduced by the Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, about 
the year 1843, and first flowered with them in the spring of 1844. It is a free- 
growing plant, with light green foliage, which grows about a foot in height, and 
Produces its flowers in erect racemes, seven or often more together. The sepals 
and petals are chestnut-brown, tipped with greenish yellow, and the lip is broad 
and of a creamy white colour. The flowers are produced in February and March, 
and last for several weeks in beauty. 
