MILTONIA SPECTABILIS. 
[PLaTE 491]. 
Native of Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs produced at short intervals from a stout creeping 
rhizome, which roots from the under side; they are oval and ancipitous, bearing a 
pair of ligulate leaves which are thin in texture, and by exposure to the sun 
become, like the pseudobulbs, of a deep yellow hue. Scape clothed with large 
compressed bracts, which are flattened and two-edged, sheathing, and like the 
leaves of a yellowish hue, a large one enveloping the single flat flower. Sepals 
and petals oblong-lanceolate, nearly equal, slightly recurved, white; lip large, 
measuring two inches or more across, obovate, of a rich vinous purple at the base 
and along the veins, which passes out into a bright rosy crimson, and more or 
less freckled round the margin with pink and white. Crest yellow. Column white, 
having two wings at the side, which are somewhat triangular, and of a deep 
vinous purple. 
Minron1a spEecrasiLis, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1837, t, 1976.  Ibid., 
Xxili., t. 1992. Ibid., 1845, t. 8.  Paaton’s Magazine of Botany, vi, p. 97. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4204. Xenia Orchidacea, i., p. 129. DP’ Illustration Horticole, 
ii, t. 216. Britten and Gowers Orchids for Amateurs, p. 97 (with woodcut). 
The Garden, xxxi., t. 593. Williams’ Orchid Growers’ Manual, 6th edition, 
p- 413. 
Macrocuitus Fryanus, Knowles and Westcott’s Floral Cabinet, ii., t. 45. 
OnciDIuM sPECTABILE, Reichenbach fil, in Walper’s Annales, vii., p. 759. 
The plant here figured is one of the most beautiful we know. The genus 
was established upon this species, and named in honour of Viscount Milton, who at 
that time was an enthusiastic grower of Orchidaceous plants. It is tow peerly 
sixty years ago since it was first introduced from Brazil, flowering for the “oa 
time with the famous firm at Hackney, the Messrs. Loddiges, ‘where so many 
Orchids in the olden times have opened their first blooms in this country. be 
have upon several occasions received this species, with its variety i a 
in this work, Vol. viii, +. 364, from Sao Paulo, wack * oe af “ iv 
provinces of Brazil, comprising an area of about 127,000 square nem i 
suppose this plant comes from the warmer parts ot that proves: =. other 
first introduction it does not appear to have been lost, so this 18 = : 
instance of the lasting qualities of Orchids under cultivation, and large  . 
are from time to time to be _ seen. The plant which tet oh marae 
faithfully depicted, flowered in our own collection in the Victoria an 
