MILTONIA. 



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MILTOXIA CUNEATA. 



M. CUNEATA, L'uiill. — A veiy pretty and free-gi'owing species, wliicli 

 reaches about 10 inches in height, and resembles M. Candida in its manner of 

 growth. The pseudobulbs arc ovate-oblong, compressed and narrowed at 

 the apex, diphyllous, the leaves ligulate-oblong, keeled on the under side 

 the scape is radical, bearing 

 an erect raceme of from six 

 to eight flowers which are 

 nearly 4 inches across ; the 

 sepals and petals are of a 

 deep chestnut brown, tipped 

 with pale greenish-yellow, 

 and the lip is white, with 

 a claw-like wedge-shaped 

 bi-lamellate base, each keel 

 terminating in a chocolate- 

 coloured spot at the base of 

 the broad roundish anterior 

 part. These flowers are 

 produced in February, and 

 continue four or five weeks 

 in perfection. The plant is 

 best grown in a pot, in 

 peat, with good drainage. — 

 BrarAl. 



Fig-.— 5of. Reg., 1845, t. 8 ; Moore. III. Oi-cli. PI. {Miltonia), t. 2; Vlll. Ilort., 

 t. 237 : Orchid Album, i. t. 46. 



Syx. — M. spcciosa ; Orwidium .iprciosum. 



M. ENDRESII, Nicholson.— 

 A very rare, very distinct, and 

 very lovely plant, showing in 

 its foliage and habit of growth 

 a close affinity with M. vexil- 

 laria ; the pseudobulbs are 

 small, oblong ovate, com- 

 pressed, with the edges acute, 

 and the distichous leaves 

 elliptic lanceolate; the flowers 

 grow six or eight together on 

 a slender scape, each being 2| 

 inches across ; they are pure 

 white, each sepal and petal 

 having a small bar of a lovely 

 rose colour at the base, and the 

 lip two larger blotches, one on 

 each side of the crest ; in form 

 the sepals are ovate acute, 

 the petals rather broader and 

 blunter, and the large lip broadly panduriform and bilobed, all the parts being 

 spread out flat ; the golden crest consisting of a pubescent hippocrepiform belt, 



JIILTOXIA ENDEESII. 



