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under the name of M. X Crawshayana, and as a supposed natural hybrid 
between M. Regnellii citrina and M. Clowesii, but it is a form of the 
present one, most resembling M. Regnellii in the lip and M. candida in 
the sepals and petals. 
The following are references to descriptions and figures :— 
M. x BrvoTI, Cogn. in Gard. Chron, 1897, xxii., p. 393; Chapm. in 
Gard. Mag., 1898, p. 736, with fig.; Journ. R. Hort. Soc., xxii., Proc., pp. 
167, 173, fig. 113; Cogn. et Gooss. Dict. Icon. Orch., Milt. hybr., t. 4. 
M. X Crawshayana, Gard. Chron., 1901, xxx., p. 210. 
VAR. INTERMEDIA, Cogn. Dict. Icon. Orch., Milt. hybr., t. 4a. 
5. M. X CoGNIAUXI& appeared in December, 1890, in the establishment 
of M. A. A. Peeters, St. Gilles, Brussels, and was dedicated to Madame 
Cogniaux by Mr. Fr. Peeters, being shortly afterwards figured and described, 
when M. Cogniaux remarked :—‘‘ There can be no doubt that this plant is a 
natural hybrid, having for its parents M. Regnellii and M. spectabilis var. 
Moreliana, between which it is unquestionably intermediate.” A hybrid 
with this parentage had already appeared under the name of M. X Peeter- 
siana, but it was not Reichenbach’s plant of that name, which is a variety 
of M. X Bluntii, and it isa curious fact that the history of the present 
hybrid can be carried right back to the year 1886. There is in the 
herbarium of the late W. H. Gower, now at Kew, a flower labelled “‘ Miltonia 
Peetersiana,”’ but without any other details, which is certainly identical 
with the one now under consideration. This led me to search for a possible 
record by Mr. Gower, and I succeeded in finding two references, in The 
Garden. 
The first was in 1887, and is as follows :—‘‘ Miltonia Peetersiana.—This 
is a new species, apparently intermediate between M. Regnellii and M. 
Moreliana, with the growth, habit, and inflorescence similar to the first 
named kind. The sepals and petals are long and spreading, wholly deep 
purplish violet; lip large and flat, bright purplish violet in the centre, 
becoming paler towards the margin, veined throughout with lines of deep 
violet, and bearing several raised ridges on the disc. This beautiful plant 
is now flowering in an intermediate house of Mr. Measures’s garden at 
Camberwell.” The second wasa year later, and runs :—*‘ This is a very 
pretty and I fancy a somewhat rare species, which I recently noted flower- 
ing in the Studley House ccllection [of F. G. Tautz, Esq.]. It has the 
habit of M. Regnellii, and the flowers are about the same size as those of 
that species, but they have the colour of M. Moreliana.” The flower evi- 
dently came from one of these two plants—presumably the former—and 
there is sufficient in the description to identify them with the Miltonia 
Peetersiana concolor, n. var., described by Reichenbach in 1886, as 
follows :—‘‘ Mr. W. Bull has been so very kind as to send me the whole 
