MILTONIA WARSCEWICZII. 
[PLaTE 216. | 
Native of Perw and New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs narrow oblong, compressed, three to five inches long, 
and about one inch broad, monophyllous. Leaves oblong acute, five to six inches 
long, of a bright pale green. Scape springing from the axil of an accessory leaf, wiry, 
bearing a large stalked nodding panicle or raceme of numerous rather closely-set flowers, 
which have each an ovate concave bract sheathing the base of its pedicel, the scape 
itself, as well as the pedicels, being thickly blotched with purple, so as to become 
dark ‘coloured. lowers of singular form and colour, but remarkably effective; sepals 
and petals cuneate ligulate obtuse, incurved, half an inch long, revolute at the 
edge which is also strongly undulated, dark brownish purple, both sepals and_ petals 
white, or the sepals sometimes greenish at the extreme tip; lip sessile, orbicular- 
oblong or subflabellate, deeply bilobed with an apiculus in the sinus, the surface 
velvety, mostly occupied by a roundish brown-purple blotch, the centre of which has 
a transversely oblong portion glossy, the surface being otherwise opaque; the sides 
have a narrow and the front part a broader limb of pale rosy lilac fading off to 
white at the edge, and a golden spot fading to whitish occurs on the disk, which 
is without crests. Column short, thick, purple at the base, white upwards, with a 
broad wing edged with purple. 
Mizroyta Warscewrczu, Reichenbach fil, Xenia Orchidacea, i. 129, 132; 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5843; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 415. 
_ Oycrptum Fuscatum, Reichenbach fil., in Flore des Serres, t. 1881; Jd., in 
Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, vi. 763. 
This is one of the most distinct of the Miltonias, not only in its growth, but 
also in its flowers. It is a very beautiful species, and one that is much admired. 
It has passed under different names, which may be accounted for in some measure 
by its being a very variable plant. We imported a large quantity of this Miltoma 
many years ago, and amongst the plants then received there were several varieties, 
some of which are now known under other names, as will be seen by a reference 
to the. Orchid-Grower’s Manual. We have found it to be a free blooming species, 
and it does not require any very large space to grow it to perfection. We are 
indebted to Captain Shaw, Corbar, Buxton, for our sketch, which was taken from a 
Well grown specimen. When grown as this plant was it cannot be other than a 
great favourite. ae 
Miltonia Warscewiczii is an evergreen species, of epiphytical habit, with light 
Sreen foliage, proceeding from the tall flattened pseudobulbs, which are also of a 
pale green colour. The flowers grow in panicles containing numerous blossoms, 
