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MILTONIA x BLEUANA NOBILIOR. 
(See FRONTISPIECE.) 
FoLLowING the precedent established in our first volume, when we gave 
a coloured plate of the new and beautiful Cypripedium Charlesworthii, we 
now present our readers with a collotype reproduction of a photograph 
of the charming Miltonia x Bleuana nobilior, from a plant grown by Messrs. 
F. Sander and Co., St. Albans. The photograph, which is an excellent one 
in every respect, was taken by Mr. H. Thomas, photographer, of St. Albans, 
and was kindly communicated by Messrs. Sander for this work. 
Miltonia x Bleuana, it will be remembered, is a hybrid which was 
obtained by M. Alfred Bleu, of Paris, from M. vexillaria 2 and M. Roezlii %. 
The cross was effected in June, 1883, the seed matured and was sown in 
the following April; while in January, 1889, four of the plants were in 
flower ; the plants then being four years and nine months old. Two years 
later, plants of the same cross flowered in the establishment of Messrs. 
James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, from a cross effected by Mr. Seden, the 
seed having been sown in January, 1885. The offspring may be said briefly 
to have almost the vegetative characters of the mother plant, with the 
flowers as much resembling those of the other parent, especially in colour, 
though the influence of M. vexillaria is also apparent on careful com- 
parison. . ! 
The different seedlings showed certain variations between themselves 
from the very outset; one which had the disc of the lip bright yellow 
being called variety aurea, and another with several radiating light 
brown lines on the same, var. splendens. The variety nobilior (O’Brien in 
Gard. Chron., 1894, i. p. 366) has a large reddish-brown blotch on the disc, 
which in front extends into short radiating teeth, as shown in the illustration. 
The flowers are white, with the lower halves of the petals beautiful light 
rose-purple, and the base of the lip chrome yellow with some brown radiating 
nerves. We believe that it was obtained from M. A. A. Peeters, of Brussels, 
and is one of M. Rleu’s original batch of seedlings. It is certainly a most 
_ charming plant, and the beautiful effect of its four racemes and fifteen 
flowers is well shown in our illustration. 
CATASETUM x SPLENDENS. 
: Durinc the last few months a curious Catasetum has appeared in four or 
five different collections having much of the general appearance of a yellow 
, macrocarpum but with afmuch more expanded lip. The difference was 
obvious, yet the resemblance to C. macrocarpum was so great that I took 
it to be only a peculiar variety. In one or two instances the plants were 
