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M. RUBROFUSCA.— See M. nigkescens. 



M. SANDERIANA, ItcUh. f. — This new and beautiful species resembles a 

 .gigantic form of M. grandiflora. The sepals are pure white, spotted and stained 

 at the base with dark chocolate-brown ; the petals are much smaller than the 

 sepals, white, thickly spotted with chocolate at the base ; the lip is similar to 

 that of M. grandiflora, but larger in all its parts. It first flowered in this 

 country in the collection of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, under the care of 

 Mr. Ballantine, and later in our own collection. It flowers in May. — Peru. 



Fig. — Releheniachia, i. t. 2r> : Journ. of Sort., 1886, xiii. p. 389. f. 57 ; The Garden, 

 1887, xxxii. p. 60. t. 606 ; Jonn. of Hort., 1891, xxii. p. 445, f. S3 ; Veitch's Man. Orclt. 

 PL, is. p. 160 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 463 ; Gardening World, ix. p. 549 (woodcut). 



M. SANDERIANA ATRO-PURPUREA, H. Williams.— A. fine variety similar to 

 the preceding, but having a dark purple lip. 



M. SANDERIANA XANTHOGLOSSA, Hort. Sander.-— A. fine variety with 

 large flowers, having the front lobe of the lip fimbriated, and of a pale yellow 

 shade. 



Fig.— Jotirn. of Sort., 1893, xxvi. p. 495, f. 89. 



M. SKINNERII.— See Ltcaste Skixxeeii. 



M. SPLENDENS, Poepp. et Endl. — ^A very handsome plant, deserving a 

 place in every collection. In growth it is something like M. venusta, but more 

 robust. It has oval ancipitous pseudobulbs, solitary long linear leaves, 

 attenuated at the base, obliquely bidentate at the apex, and rather large 

 flowers on one-flowered fascicled scapes, the sepals and petals being unspotted 

 white, and the lip orange, margined with rose.^Peru. 



Fi&. — Poepp. et Endl., Xov. Gen. et Sp., 1. 1. 66. 



M. STAPELIOIDES. — See Pjromenaea stapelioides. 

 M. STEELII See Scutic.akia Steelii. 



M. TENUIFOLIA, Lindl. — One of the oldest species known to horticul- 

 turists, having flowered in the Chiswick Gardens of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society as long ago as 1839. Leaves very narrow linear, exceeding 1 foot in 

 length ; flowers measiiring about 2 inches across, yellow densely spotted with 

 crimson. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Ileg., 1839, t. 8. 



M. TRILORIS, Morren. — The flowers resemble in a great'measure those of M. 

 hiteo-alha, but differ in having a pale purplish tint. This is a wonderfully free- 

 flowering plant, and we first noticed it in the large Winter Garden at Laeken, 

 Belo-ium, belonging to H.M. The King of the Belgians, where a number of 

 plants, literally covered with blossom, were placed on pedestals about 4 feet 

 from the ground in suitable positions, and the effect was most charming. 

 Mr. H. Knicht, the able director of the Eoyal Parks and Gardens, assured us 

 that it is one of the most useful Orchids he had under his charge. — South 

 America. 



Fia.— Beige Hort., 1870, t. 13. 



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