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inflorescence of the plant I alluded to in my report about that novelty 
(p. 326). It is remarkably distinct from the original, inasmuch as the sepals 
and petals are not quite so dark. The lip, beautiful as it is, has not those 
dark eye blotches bordered with white margins.” Whether Mr. Bull sold 
the plant to Mr. Measures or Mr. Tautz, we have no means of ascertaining, 
but we should not be surprised to learn that one or both came from the 
same source. 
VAR. BICOLOR, #. var.—The one other hybrid from the same two species 
that I am acquainted with was sent to Kew in July, 1891, by Mr. Thomas 
Spencer, The Gardens, Goodrich Court, Ross, with the following note :— 
“A Miltonia which I am not acquainted with. The foliage and growth 
reminds one of M. spectabilis, and is about the same size.”” The bracts of 
the inflorescence also approach those of the same species, but the size and 
shape of the flower, including the column wings, are even more nearly like 
those of M. Regnellii than those of the original form; compared with 
which there is the striking difference that the sepals and petals are yellow- 
ish white, showing that the typical M. spectabilis was the second parent. 
The lip is purple, as in the original. 
It may be asked why, seeing that M. xX Peetersiana, Rchb.f. now 
becomes a variety of M. X Bluntii, the specific name is not retained for the 
present hybrid in preference to the more recent M. X Cogniauxie. The 
answer is simple, and ought to be convincing. The name Peetersiana was 
only applied to the present one through an error, which has continued to the 
present day because the confusion of Reichenbach and others has not 
previously been cleared up. Messrs. Peeters indeed repudiate it for the 
present plant, which they have named M. X Cogniauxiz. It only serves to 
perpetuate the confusion if we retain the name after its falsity has been 
pointed out. The following are references to descriptions and figures :— 
M. X CoGNIAUxI&, Fr. Peeters, ex Cogn. et Gooss. Dict. Icon. Orch., 
Milt. hybr. t. 5. 
M. X Peetersiana var, concolor, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1886, xxvi., 
p- 360. 
M. X Peetersiana, Gower in Garden, 1887, xxxii., p. 197; 1888, XXXIV., 
p- 169; Gard. Chron., 1897, xxii., p. 222; Garden, 1897, lii., p. 249 ; Chapm- 
in Gard. Mag., 1898, p. 736 (not of Rehb. if). 
6. M. X LEUCOGLOssA appeared in the collection of Sir Trevor 
Lawrence, Bart., Burford, Dorking, in 1898, being exhibited at a meeting 
of the Royal Horticultural Society, on September 2oth of that year, when 
it received an Award of Merit. The Gardeners’ Chronicle spoke of it as 4 
novelty, “‘ which may be a hybrid of M. cuneata, the sepals and petals 
were cream-white, with blotches of light violet colour, the lip pure white, 
except some marking around the crest.” Mr. Chapman afterwards noted 
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