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MILTONIA WARSCEWICZII RCHB. F. 
M. WARSCEWICZ’S MILTONIA. 
MILTONIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, p. 47. 
Miltonia Warscewiczii. Pseudobulbi oblongi, subcompressi, nitidi. Folia lineari-oblonga, acuta. Panicula pedun- 
culata, multiflora. Braeteae ovato-oblongae, acuminatae, breves. Sepala_ brevissime unguiculata, obovato-oblonga, 
obtusa, crispo-undulata. Petala sepalis similia. Labellum late subcuneato-oblongum v. quadratum, convexum, apice 
brevissime bilobum, basi velutinum, obscure cristatum. Columna brevissima. 
Miltonia Warscewiczii Rous. ¥. Xen. Orch., I, p. 132. — Ip. in Gard. Chron., 1869, p. 277 et 1007, — 
Ip. 1871, p. 1258, fig. 281. — Ip., 1876, i, p. 394. — Ib., 1877, i, p. 202. — Bot. Mag., t. 5843. — Garten- 
flora, XXI, p. 340, cum xyl. — Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, V, t. 216. — VerrcH Man. Orch., VII, jah 28805, 
cum xyl. ; 
Oncidium fuscatum RcwB. F. in Walp. Ann., VI, p. 763. — Fl. des Serres, t. 1831. — Ill. Hort., XXI, 
Pellets 158. 
Oncidium Weltoni superbum Carr. in Rev. Hort., 1881, pp. 450, 451, fig. 105, cum ic. 
Var. aetherea RCwB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1881, i, p. 428. — Ip., 1882, i, D782. 
Var. xanthina Reus. ¥. in Gard. Chron., 1883, ii, p. 812. 
his beautiful species is said to have been originally discovered by the 
German traveller, Popric, in February 1830, near Cuchero, in Peru ; 
in which country it was also met with by Warscewicz, many years later, 
near Quindiu. ReicHEnsacn also speaks of a very damaged specimen in the 
Hookerian Herbarium, gathered by Purprz, but this I am convinced is something 
different, for I find no other evidence that this collector ever obtained it. Rorzr 
and Watts also met with it. It was introduced to cultivation by M. Linpgn, 
through his collector Watts, and flowered for the first time in Europe in 1869. 
It soon proved to be. very variable in colour, for in 1876 RrIcHENBACH 
wrote that he had never twice seen the same variety, so variable was it, and he 
had also observed a similar propensity to vary in size. This may partly be due 
to a somewhat wide diffusion, for Burke, one of Messrs Verrcn’s collectors, 
found it near the Rio Verde, in the province of Antioquia, in New Granada, 
growing on small trees and shrubs close to the ground, and on moss-covered 
stones, at 2,000 to 3,000 feet elevation. 
It is a most distinct species, readily separated from every other by its 
paniculate inflorescence, as well as by the shape of the flower. The sepals and 
petals vary from brown to yellow, the apical portion usually being white or very 
light yellow. The lip is rose-purple with a red-brown disc and a white margin, 
and also white at the extreme base, where are situated two small yellow teeth. 
Miltonia Warscewiczii is said to require a little more heat and shade than 
most other species of the genus, and will succeed either in the Cattleya house 
