MONOCHILUS. 527 



M. VEXILLARIA VIRGINALIS.-See M. vexillaria alba. 



M. WARNERI.— See M. spectabilis uosea. 



M. WARSCEWIC21I, Bchb. /.—A very distinct and handsome plant, which 

 has borne in gardens several names, including Oncidium fuscatvm, but which 

 our chief authorities now place under Miltonia. It has tall flattened narrow 

 oblong pseudobulbs, oblong obtuse pale green leaves, and nodding panicles of 

 numerous crowded flowers, whose peduncle springs from the axil of an accessory- 

 leaf sheathing the bulb ; the short sepals and petals are bluntly cuneate ligulate 

 and prettily undulated, dark brownish-purple tipped with white, and the sessile 

 lip is nearly orbicular, deeply bilobed, of a velvety brownish-purple margined 

 with rosy-lilac, giving a roundish outline to the purple area, in the midst of 

 which there is a transversely oblong shining patch, which from being glossy 

 appears to be of a different colour; there is also a yellow spot on the disk; the 

 column is very short, purple at the base. It blooms in the spring months. — 

 Peru ; yew Grenada. 



Fie. — Bot. Mag., t. 5813 ; Flore Am Siirrea, t. 1831 ; Orchid, Album, v. t. 216 ; 

 Linienia, viii. t. 38i ; Viiitoh's Man. Orcli. PL, viii. p. 11.5. 



Syn. — Oncidium fiiseatum. 



M. WARSCEWICZII WELTONI, Moore.— A. variety of M. Warscewioiii, 

 which, though differing in many points, is obviously of the same specific type ; 

 in its flat oblong pseudobulbs, oblong leaves, and paniculate inflorescence, it is 

 quite like the type, but the flowers appear to be smaller, and the sepals and 

 petals have the ground colour olive-brown, with the tips yellow instead of 

 white ; the lip is smaller, roundish-ovate, bilobed, but without an apiculus ; the 

 purple colour is cut ofl: straight at about two-thirds the length of the lip, and 

 the apical part is distinctly white ; there are many connecting links known to 

 botanists, and this has led to the two plants being regarded as strictly synony- 

 mous. — Peru; Neiv Grenada. 



Wia.—L' lU.'Hort, 3rd se,r., t. 156. 



Syn. — Oncidium Wcltoni. 



M. WARSCEWICZII XANTHINA, Bchh.f.—A pleasing variety, in which the 

 flowers are almost wholly yellow ; the sepals and petals are yellow, and the lip 

 is of a light yellow with a narrow white border, there being no purple as in the 

 type. It blooms in the winter season, and flrst flowered with W. Lee, Esq., 

 Downside, Lcatherhcad. — Peru. 



MONOCHILUS, Walllch. 



(^Trihe Neotfcieae, subtribe Splranthoae.) 



A small- genus of terrestrial tropical Orchids, included by Bentham 



under Zouxine, but kept distinct both by Lindley and Reichenbacli. It 



differs from Anoedochilus in the absence of a spur, and in the adhesion of 



the lip with the column, and from Zeuxine in its long membranous split 



