S14 orchid-grower's manual. 



M. TURNERI, Sort. — A very distinct and pretty species, with short psendo- 

 bulbs, long broad leaves 1 foot high of a very dark green colour, and flowers of 

 a rich cinnamon-brown and crimson, with a delicious fragrance ; it blooms in 

 May in great profusion, and continues a long time in perfection.- — South 

 America. 



M. VENUSTA, Linden et Bchb. f.— This plant i.s one of the best of the genus, 

 of easy culture, blooming at different times in the year, and continuing for 

 three or four weeks in perfection. It has bluntly oblong compressed pseudq- 

 bulbs, bearing at the top a pair of broad oblong-lanceolate leaves, nearly a foot 

 long, and producing from their base the one-flowered red bracteate scapes, 

 which are much shorter than the leaves, and bear a large showy somewhat 

 nodding white flower, with the front lobe of the lip yellow, the edges of the 

 lateral lobes crimson, and two crimson spots on the disk, where also is a great 

 roundish tomentose callus ; the sepals and petals are all spreading and 

 attenuately acuminate at the apex, the sepals being nearly or quite 3 inches 

 long. There are two varieties of this species, one having the flowers superior 

 m being larger and more pure in colour than the other. — Hew Grenada ; Ocana ; 

 Venezuela. 



Via.— Sot. Mag., t. 5296 ; Satem. Second Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 118 ; Pescatorea, t. 38 ; 

 Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1892, xii. p. 367, f. 60 ; Orchid Album, xi. t. 492. 



Syn.— if. KallreyerL- 



M. VIRGINALIS.— See Lycaste Skinnekii. 

 M. VITELLINA — See Bipkenauia vitellina. 

 M. WARREANA. — See Wariiea tricolor. 



MESOSPINIDITJM— See CocuLiODA AND Ada. 



MlCROCHILUS —See Physurus. 



MICROSTYLIS, Nuttall. 



(^Tribe Epidendreae, suhtribe Malaxeae.) 



A genus of terrestrial Orchids of dwarf habit, sometimes pseudo- 

 bulbous, the stems bearing near the base several handsomely coloured 

 plicate leaves, and' terminating in a spike of very small flowers. There 

 are many species, known, and they are widely dispersed in Europe, 

 Asia aiid America; but those in cultivation are mostly tropical, and 

 deserve a place with the Anoectochili, being all interesting to those who 

 desire to have a general collection ; amongst these may be mentioned 

 M. Wallichii, M. Rheidii, and M. versicolor. 



Culture. — The game as that of Anoedochilus, which see. 



