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is intensely brilliant, more than compensating for lack of size. The sepals and 

 petals are rose colour, the sepals having a short purplish-crimson longitudinal 

 stripe at their base ; the lip is bright magenta-rose, and in the white area at 

 the base is a large triangular dark crimson-purple blotch veined with radiating 



MILTONIA VEXILLAEIA LEOPOLDII. 



(From the &ard,eners' Magazine.') 



lines of a darker tint, the three front lines running out into three club-shaped 

 bars, a distinct white space separating the rose colour from the crimson. It 

 flowers during the autumn months. This fine form was first flowered by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., Dorking. — 'Nam Grenada. 



Flu. — Orchid Album, iv. t. 171 ; Lindenia, v. p. 201. 

 Syn. — Odantoglossum rexiUarinin superJmm, Echb. f. 



