AXD THEIR MAXAGEMEXr. 



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Miltonia. 



clustered, erect, ^\n. long, lin. broad, much flattened, green, 

 usually with only one apical leaf, and several others springing 

 from the base. Leaves strap-shaped, 6in. to qin. long, i[,in. 

 broad, bright green. Scape wiry, arching, varying in length 

 according to the strength of the plant, strong pseudo-bulbs pro- 

 ducing tall, loose-branching panicles of thirty or forty llowers, 

 each flower jin. across ; sepals and petals recurved at the margins 

 towards the base, wa\y reddish-brown, with yellow tips ; lip almost 

 circular, two-lobed, the margins curved back so as to give the 

 front a rounded appearance ; colour rose-purple, with a central 

 blotch of yellowish-brown, and a broad, marginal band of white. 

 It blossoms Ireelv m summer or autumn, the flowers remaining 

 tVesh for several weeks. It should be grown along with, and 

 be treated as advised for, J/, tandida. Peru, iS68. Syn. 

 Oju'idiuin fnicafuiii. (Fig. 105 ; B. iM., t. 5S43.) 



rT.\ki)EX Hvr.Rit-). 

 Blciiana Tiwd/aria and Roezlii (Bleu ami \'cilch). 



Xaturai, Hyiiridn. 



Binoti Candida and I\c;^ntlli . 



Blunt it spcctalnlis and CIowl-sH. 



Casfancz- Clo-cCtsii and I\L-t,-i?c/ii. 



Cobbiaiia tandida and iiin,-ata. 



Cogiiiau.yiu- iloi-cliana and Rc^iidli. 



Lamarcktaim Candida and Cliaccsii. 



ieitcos^Iossa spcctaljilis and ca/ufida. 



Peetersiana Rci;nclli and Morciiana. 



MONACMANTHUS (Lindl.). Now included under Cata = 

 setum. 



MONOCHILUS ( Wall). Now included under Zeuxine. 



MOOREA. 



Islx. R. A. Rolfe de.scribes this genus in the "Gardeners' 

 Chronicle" in 1890, from a plant that flowered in the Roj-al 

 Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin, and that had been intro- 

 duced by Messrs. ShuttIe\vorth and Carder, probably from 

 Peru. It belongs to the tribe ]\ind€cr, and is named in 

 compliment to Mr. F. W. Moore, Curator at Glasnevin. 

 Its nearest ally is Houllclia, from which it differs "in the 

 lip being \\-ithout a claw-, and articulated with the base or 

 foot of the column, and by the upper part of the lip not 



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