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column has two conspicuous purple ears or wings, and the disk bears three 

 lamellae. Of this beautiful species there are some varieties much better than 

 others. It is a most desirable old plant, and easily ^rown into a good specimen, 

 especially when cultivated in a basket. — Brazil : Sew Paulo. 



Fm.—Bot. Mag., t. i204 ; £ot. Reg., t. 1992 ; Z'lll. BoH., t. 216 ; Lem Jard Ft 

 t. 108; Paxton, Mag. Hot., Yii. p. 97, with tab. ; IIai-t.Parad.,i.t.U ; Xnoivli-.t ^- We-ifc 

 Floral Cab., t. 45 ; The Garden, 1887, xxxi. p. 374, t. 593 ; Mevue Hon-t. Belqe 1889 

 p. 25, t. 3 ; VelMi's Man. Orch. PL, viii. p. 109 ; Orehid Album, xi. t. 491. 



Syx. — Macrocliilus Fryanus. 



M. SPECTABILIS ASPERSA, BcU. /.—A variety which appeared in the 

 collection of the late Major Lendy, Sunbury. The sepals and petals are said 

 to be •• cream-coloured partly washed with white mauve-lilac " ; lip li^ht 

 mauve-lilac. 



M. SPECTABILIS LINEATA, Lind. ei Bod.— A lovely and distinct varietj-, 

 having white sepals and petals. Lip white in the anterior part, purple-rose at 

 the base, with seven or eight carmine-rose veins reaching nearly to the anterior 

 margin. 



Fig. — Zindeiiia, ii..t. 62. 



M. SPECTABILIS MORELIANA — A very handsome and most desirable plant, 

 the flowers of which resemble those of M. spectahilis in every particular except 

 colour, as does also the habit of growth, thus confirming the view now generally 

 held that it is merely a highly-coloured and superior variety of that species. 

 The colour of the sepals and petals is of a deep rich purple, and the broad flat 

 lip is beautifully veined with rose. It produces its flowers in September and 

 October, continuing in bloom a long time. — Brazil : Bio Janeiro. 



Fig. — Zindenia, in. t. lOo ; The Garden, 1887, xxxi. p. 374, t. 593; Jlerue HoH. 

 Beige, 1887, p. 229 (plate) ; Orchid Album, viii. t. 364. 



The following are sub-varieties of this handsome form : — 



M. SPECTABILIS MORELIANA ATRO-RUBENS, iToct— A magnificent variety, 

 with the flowers very large, often measuring 4 inches across, and much darker 

 in colour than those of M. spectahilis Moreliana ; it blooms in September, and 

 lasts a considerable time in beauty. A scarce plant. — Brazil. 



M. SPECTABILIS MORELIANA ROSEA, Bclib. f.—A. distinct form of this old 

 favourite, in which the sepals and petals are white, traversed by a band of pale 

 rose down the centre, and the lip is bright rose, distinctly veined with rosy 

 purple ; it flowers during the summer months. — Brazil. 



Jig. — Gard. Mag. Bot., iii. p. 41, with tab. ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., i. t. 32 ; Jennings, 

 Orch.. t. 37 ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 143 ; Puydt, Zes Orch., t. 27 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4425 ; 

 Moore, III. Orch. PI. (^Miltonia'), t. 1 ; Flore des Serves, t. 1008. 



Syn. — M. Moreliana; M. purpurea violacea. 



M. SPECTABILIS RADIANS, Bchl. f. — In this form of M. spectahilis we have 

 a most chaste-looking and lovely epiphyte, and a most admirable contrast to 

 the highly-coloured M. spectahilis Moreliana. The habit is that of the type, the 

 pseudobulbs being oblong and compressed, the leaves lorate or ligulate and 

 keeled, and the scape ancipitous, springing from the base of the bulb. The 



