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described and figured. The original form has white sepals and petals, and 
a purple lip, shading off to rosy-lilac above, and with purple veins below. 
A few years later a dark purple form was sent to M. Morel, of Paris. by 
a Brazilian correspondent, which was described and figured in 1851 as var. 
Moreliana (Henfr. Mag. of Bot., iii. p. 41). Two years earlier practically the 
same form had been figured as var. purpureo-violacea (Bot. Mag. t. 4425), 
without any account of its history. Although so different in colour from 
the original M. spectabilis, it scarcely differs in other respects. The variety . 
atrorubens is a rather darker form of the same. | 
Some years later the variety radians appeared, flowering in the collection 
of Senateur Jenisch, of Hamburg, in the autumn of 1855, and was described 
by Reichenbach (Xen. Orch., 1. p. 130). It was subsequently figured (Orch. 
Alb., iv. t. 164). A curious variation appeared in the collection of Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in which there were also radiating lines at the 
base of the petals. 
M. spectabilis virginalis is nearly allied to the preceding, but the 
radiating lines are replaced by a broad crimson line at the base of the lip. 
It flowered in the establishment of M. Ambrose Verschaffelt, of Ghent, in 
1868. It is figured in JJ]. Hort., xv. t. 573. 
M. spectabilis bicolor differs from virginalis in having the purple blotch 
on the lip more than twice as large, extending quite two-thirds of the way 
to the apex. It appeared with Messrs. Loddiges as long ago as 1837. 
M. spectabilis lineata (Lindenia, ii. t. 62) is somewhat intermediate 
between the preceding and var. radians, havinga number of narrow purple 
line extending from the basal blotch of the lip nearly to the apex. It 
appeared with Messrs. Linden in 1886. 
M. spectabilis rosea has the sepals and petals flushed with light rose, 
chiefly along the centre, and the lip purple. In the original form, which 
was introduced by M. Binot, and flowered in the establishment of M. 
Ambrose Verschaffelt, of Ghent, in 1867, there was some white in front of 
the lip, but others to which the name has been applied are more like light 
forms of the Moreliana type. 
M. spectabilis var. aspersa appeared with Major Lendy, Sunbury-on- 
Thames, and was described by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1885, ii. p. 70) 
as a very interesting variety. The sepals and petals were said to be cream- 
coloured, partly washed with white-mauve-lilac, and the lip light-mauve 
lilac. The crest of the lip and the column wings were unusually developed, 
and the author remarked: “I have deliberated in vain as to whether it 
could be conjectured a mule. There is no species whose features it partly 
has.”” Nothing further seems to be known about it, but, prestimably, the 
specimen is preserved in the Reichenbachian Herbarium. 
It is remarkable how little is known about the habitat of this fine 
