MILTONIA CANDIDA GRANDIFLORA. 
[Piate 200. ] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate oblong, narrowed towards the apex, eo 
diphyllous, provided with accessory leaves at the base, and becoming of a yellowish 
tawny colour when old. Leaves oblong-ligulate acute, shorter than the scape, yellowish 
green. Scape erect, brownish purple, from the axil of an accessory leaf, bearing a 
raceme of several handsome flowers, which are brighter coloured than those of the 
type. Flowers three-and-a-half inches across, much finer than in Miltonia candida, 
white lipped; sepals oblong, with a cuneate base, the apex shortly acuminate, the 
margins irregular and wavy, bright chestnut-brown, the upper half edged with 
yellow; petals more elongate oblong, chestnut-red in the basal half, the tip (one- 
fourth) clear yellow, the rest marked with chestnut-red blotches on a yellow ground ; 
lip roundish obovate, folded over the column, its margin undulated, and the disk 
marked with two oblong violet-purple blotches. Colwmn included. 
MILTONIA CANDIDA GRANDIFLORA, Hort.; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 
6 ed., 410. 
There are many most beautiful species and varieties of Miltonia, several of 
which we have figured. When grown as. they should be they make a grand 
display. The one of which we now publish an illustration is a most charming 
subject when well cultivated, as was the case with the plant from which our figure 
was taken, which was admirably bloomed in the fine collection of R. H. Measures, 
Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, a gentleman who is collecting some exceptionally rare 
and fine species and varieties of Orchids. We may congratulate him on so doing, 
and repeat what we have said before, namely, that it is better to grow good 
known kinds than to waste valuable room in growing subjects which have to be 
got rid of on account of their inferiority after they have been receiving attention it 
may be for years. This remark especially applies where space is an object. Of course 
where large houses out of number are built, then the owner may reasonably go in 
for a large general collection, and indulge in extensive importations, as by doing so 
he will always have a chance of getting something new in the shape of varieties. 
The same chance occurs by continually making additions of any class or type that 
may be particularly admired or fancied; there will be a continued possibility of new 
species and new varieties turning up. 3 
Miltonia candida grandiflora, which is a native of Brazil, is an evergreen 
Orchid, with pseudobulbs three inches in height, of a light green colour; the 
