OcTOBER, 1906. | THE ORCHID REVIEW. 297 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS. 
MILToNIA spectabilis is one of the most charming of autumn-blooming 
Orchids, and we now publish a figure, together with its dark pore variety 
Moreliana, these being reproduced from a photograph received, with som: 
others, from Dr. A. W. Hoisholt, Stockton, California, "g 1900. Dr. 
Hoisholt then wrote :— “A year and a half ago I “eee from Messrs. 
Lager and Hurrell, Summit, New Jersey, a plant of Miltonia spectabilis, 
which Mr. Lager thought would prove to be the variety Moreliana. It was 
composed of three pieces. The smallest flowered as ordinary spectabilis, 
the second produced a flower of a very dark Moreliana, while the two leads 
2 “IG. 4C Ss. VAR. MORELIANA. 
Fig. 39. MILTONIA SPECTABILIS. Fic. 40. M.S. VAR. MORELIA 
a different from either, hav 
of the third piece devel: »ped flowers | 
and short magenta-purple rays 
pure white flower, with broad segments, 
radiating from the disc. It forms ac complete c 
an albino form of, the dark Moreliana. Is it M. spectabilis var. 
I enclose a dried flower, with photographs of 
s with the variety radians, 
contrast with, and 
all th iree.”” 
This flower quite agrees which flowered in the 
collection of Senator Jenisch, of Hamburg | 
es description (Xen. Orch. 1. p- 130), van the same variety was a 
wards figured in the Orchid Album, iv. t- 164). The photograph of the 
d for reproduction, but as the histor 
ding to Reichen- 
in 1855, according t 
tw« V } rT o ray o 
two well-known forms we have selecte 
