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enclosing a short inflexed horn, in front of which arc three short blunt yellow 

 keels. — Costa Rica : Veragua, on the Cordillera of Cliiriqui, elevation 8,000 feet. . 



VlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6163 ; Xeiiia OrcTi. i. t. 81. 



Syn. — Odontoglosswm Warscewiczii , Eclib. f. 



M. FESTIVA, Uclib. f. — A rare and showy species, resembling 11. spectahilis 

 in its growth and general appearance, but having very distinct flowers, which 

 are borne in pairs, and are as large as those of M. spectahilis itself. They have 

 oblong ochrolencous sepals and petals, and a large cuneately flabellate acutely 

 pointed lip of a purplish-lilac, with eleven radiating veins of deep purple on 

 the disk, two yellow keels, and dark purple column wings. Beichenbach suggests 

 it may be a wild hybrid between M. spectahilis and M. flavescens. — Brazil. 



FlG.—Xenia OrcJi., iii. t. 232. 



NI. JOICEYANUM, O'Brien.— At one of Messrs. Protheroe & Morris's sales a 

 plant was bought under the name of Odontoglossum rainosissvmum by Major 

 Joicey, of Sunningdale. When it flowered it was found to be new, and has been 

 named and described by Mr. O'Brien as follows :■ — '' A remarkably handsome 

 Miltonia, the conformation of whose flowers leaves little doubt as to its hybrid 

 origin. It is as showy as J/. Bluntii and its variety, I/uhbersiana, and a welcome 

 addition to our garden Orchids. Its growth resembles that of a very stout 

 M. Olowesii, and the inflorescence, which rises to a height of about 2 feet, bears 

 flowers much as in that species, but the individual flowers are totally diiferent, 

 and bear distinct traces of M. Candida in the broader segments and the ample 

 labellum, which, although exhibiting the tendency to reflex on each side of the 

 middle portion, inherited from M. Cloioesii, also exhibit in the notched, frilled, 

 and upturned margin, a tendency to become convolute, as in M. Candida; the 

 sepals are clear yellow, heavily blotched with chestnut-brown, SJ inches from 

 tip to tip at their greatest expansion, and \ inch broad, ligulate in form ; petals 

 similar in colour, but f inch broad, and noiore acuminate than the sepals, 

 both sets of segments having a white base tinged with purple ; the labellum is 

 ovate, 1| inch broad in the front portion, the sides of the middle portion 

 curving backward so as to give the organ a pandurate appearance ; the edges 

 of the basal part of the lip are finely toothed, the front being notched and 

 frilled, the edge curving upwards ; there are two main ridges running up the 

 middle of the base of the lip, with two lesser and shorter ones on each side of 

 them; in young flowers the base of the lip is purple, the other part lilac, 

 shading off to white at the edge, but as they mature the lilac part gets an 

 Indian-yellow tint, which is very charming ; column white, tinged with purple 

 on the wings " {Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 206). 



M. MORELIANA.— See M. spectabilis Moeeliana eosea. 



M. ODORATA.— See Aspasia ltjnata. 



M. PEETERSIANA, iJc/i6. /.— This was believed by the late Prof. Beichenbach 

 to be a natural hybrid, between M. spectahilis Morcliana and M. Clou-esii. The 

 flowers approach those of the first-named in form, but the lip is narrower at 

 the base and broader at the upper part ; the petals and sepals are dark 

 chestnut-brown; the lip is of a rich purple, blotched at the base with dark 

 purple, the blotches being bordered by white ; the base has five yellow keelS. 

 Named in honour of M. A. A. Peeters, of Brussels,— Bro.-iJ. 



