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bracts and the apex of the lip, and the colour of both sepals aud petals, are 
those of M. flavescens; the other organs have the characters of the corres- 
ponding parts of M. spectabilis. The Liiddemann flowers do not turn red 
when dried as do the flowers of M. flavescens. We are indebted for 
a glorious two-flowered inflorescence to our excellent correspondent and 
friend, Stuart Low, Esq.’’ A plant flowered in the collection of Wentworth 
Buller, Esq., Ferniehurst, Shipley, near Leeds, in June, 1869 (possibly the one 
just mentioned), and another appeared with Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, 
in 1877. Italso flowered in the collection of R.I. Measures, Esq., of 
Camberwell, in May, 1894, the inflorescence being preserved at Kew, where 
also is an inflorescence sent by Mr. Rand, of Para, Brazil, in September, 
1895, as suspected tobe a hybrid between M. festiva and M. spectabilis. 
There can no longer be any doubt that this represents the origin of the plant, 
which is apparently rare. The following are the references :— 
M. X FEsTIVA, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1868, p. 572; Veitch Man. 
Orch., viii., p. 118; Kranzl. Xen. Orch., iii., p. 66, t. 232. 
2. M. X BLuntTiI was described by Reichenbach in 1879, as follows :— 
“*A fresh novelty, a lovely and elegant thing. The flower is equal to that of 
Miltonia spectabilis, but the sepals and petals have another shape, and are 
smaller. They are whitish yellow, and they have some great, purple cinna- 
mon blotches, chiefly in their centre. The sepals are lanceolate acute ; the 
petals oblong, lanceolate, less acute. The lip has exactly the form of that 
of M. spectabilis, but there are two different, naked, abrupt keels at the 
base; its colour is white, and there is a purple area at the base. The 
column is thick and very short, with narrow, great, darkish purple-violet 
wings. The whole aspect must be uncommonly pretty. If you take sepals 
and petals of a Clowesii, wash all the bars from base and top, and add the 
column and lip of a spectabilis, you will have rather a good idea of Mil- 
tonia X Bluntii, only remember there are no bars at all, but blotches. Mr. 
Richard Bullen informs me that the plant is like M. spectabilis in growth 
and habit. I entertain no doubt of the plant being a mule between M. 
spectabilis and M. Clowesii. It isa great satisfaction to dedicate the plant 
to its discoverer, Mr. Henry Blunt, who once more devotes his zeal to 
Orchids. Materials have been kindly sent by Mr. Richard Bullen, Wood: 
lands Nursery, Hither Green, Lewisham.” 
VaR. PEETERSIANA.—Another natural hybrid was described by Reichen- 
bach in 1886, but being descended from the same two species must be con- 
sidered as a variety of M. X Bluntii. The description is as follows :— 
“This has the bulb and leaf of Miltonia Clowesii. The peduncle is very 
strong, not markedly two-edged but more rounded. The shading of the 
inflorescence is rather flexuose in one specimen with ancipitous, triangular, 
large bracts, nearly equal to the stalked ovaries. The flower would be diffi- 
