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present one has much more effective colours, and once seen can never be 
mistaken, though a flower without the lip would pass for L. mesochlena, 
but for the different-shaped mentum. The front lobe of the lip is very 
slightly toothed on the sides, and the crest is much swollen, truncate, and of 
the same colour as the rest of the Jip. The mentum, or chin, of the lateral 
sepals is rounded and three lines long. 
CYPRIPEDIUM VILLOSUM VAR. MEASURESIANUM, O’Brien.—Described a 
a richly-coloured and bold-looking flower, forming a connecting link between 
Cypripedium villosum and C. Boxallii. It is like a fine form of typical 
villosum with the colouring of C. Boxallii atratum, ‘‘ showing through it 
as one sees a design on a lighter ground in a stained-glass window.” It 
appeared in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander and Co., of St. Albans, 
and is named in honour of R. H. Measures, Esq., of The Woodlands, 
Streatham.—Gard. Chron., Sept. 6th, ps 207. 
OncIDIUM WHEATLEYANUM, Gower.—A very beautiful Oncidium which 
appeared with Mr. F. Wheatley, of Ringmore, Teignmouth, having beet 
purchased as an imported specimen with two or three others as Oncidium 
Gardneri. It bears a raceme of upwards of thirty flowers. The sepals and 
petals are marbled with reddish brown on a lighter ground, and the lip 
golden-yellow, edged with brown, and a deep crimson area at the base.—lit 
‘Garden, Sept. gth, p. 227, 
MILTONIA SPECTABILIS VAR VIRGINALIS. 
This chaste and beautiful variety appeared in the collection of e 
Ambrose Verschaffelt, at Ghent, in 1869. The flowers are pure white with 
the exception of a broad wedge-shaped purple blotch at the base of the lip, 
the purple column-wings, and a yellow spot at the base of the column. In 
every other respect it conforms to the type. The same identical form has 
n.. oPpeared with Messrs. W. L. Lewis and Co., Chase Side, Southgat | 
from whom we have received a flower. Miltonia spectabilis is the omgm™® | 
Species of the genus, and was described as long ago as 1837, yet — 
% known about its habitat—in fact, Messrs. Veitch state that its precise ha) ue 
1s known only to the Orchid collectors at Rio de Janeiro. It has Pe 
very variable as regards colour, and is one of the most popular species @ es 
genus. jee 
Miltonia Spectabilis var, virginalis, Lem. in Z//. Port. XN.,  573- 
