DECEMBER, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 355 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS, 
UR illustration is of two distinct varieties of Miltonia spectabilis. The 
flower on the left is whitish, the lip lined and stained with purple, 
while on the right is the variety Moreliana, in which the sepals and petals 
are deep-plum-purple and the lip purple with darker veining. M. 
spectabilis was sent from Brazil as long ago as 1835 to the Birmingham 
Botanical and Horticultural Society, and flowered in Messrs. Loddiges’ 
nursery at Hackney, in 1837. The variety Moreliana was described in 1851, 
SPECTABILIS MORELIANA, 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS. M. 
and named after M. Morel, of St. Mandé, near Paris, to whom it had been 
sent some five vears earlier by a Brazilian correspondent. 
Among other distinct varieties that have appeared are atrorubens, with 
almost blackish-purple sepals and petals ; radians, in which the ‘white 
flower has crimson-purple radiating lines at the base of the lip ; virginalis, 
somewhat similar to the preceding, but the markings on the lip consist of a 
crimson-purple blotch: bicolor, in which the sepals and petals are white, 
ts area; 
bet 
while the lip has a purple blotch covering nearly two-thirds of 
lineata, with eight narrow crimson-purple nerves extending beyond the 
basal blotch nearly to the apex; rosea, with the sepals and petals flushed 
with light rose, and the lip nearly lik . 
White with six club-shaped purple rays on the disc of the lip. 
> the type; and William’s, flowers 
