April, 1913.J 
THE ORCHID WORLD. 
MILTONIA SCHRODERIANA. 
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THIS distinct and very rare 
Miltonia first appeared in 
the garden of Baron 
Schroder, The Dell, Windsor, in 
the spring of 1882. The Gardeners 
Chronicle remarked at the time : 
"What is it? Nothing hke it has 
appeared before in Europe. The 
columnar wings and the nature of 
callus forbid to think it a white- 
mauve Odontoglossum tripudians. 
It may be a cross between 
this and O. Pescatorei, perhaps 
Vf='itchianum." The same publica- 
tion, in its issue of September 
24th, 1887, contains the following 
remark by Reichenbach : " This 
is an unusually stately plant. The 
first inflorescence had only three 
flowers, but there can be no doubt 
that, after further establishment, 
it will produce larger spikes. The 
sepals are strongly keeled. Both 
sepals and petals are of the most 
shining and pure cinnamon, with 
some yellowish-white markings and 
transverse bars and tips. The lip 
with its high convex antebasilar 
part is white at the base, and at 
the interior part it is white too. The mid 
part IS of the purest purple, which looks quite 
admirable. The column is novel by its very 
developed tabula mfrastigmatica, yellow m 
front, bidentate under the fovea. Limbs of 
fovea and very narrow wings purple." The 
species is a native of Central America, 
and in its early days was known as an 
Odontoglossum. 
Ghent Exhibition. — The 17th Inter- 
national Horticultural Exhibition will be held 
at Ghent, April 26th to May 4th, 191 3. The 
members of the Jury will commence their work 
on Friday, April 25th, at 8.30 in the morning, 
and will assemble in the Palais des Floralies. 
VOL. III. 
Miltonia Schroderiana. 
NEW ORCHIDS. 
The Kew Bulletin contains the 39th Decade 
of New Orchids. The following species, with 
Latin descriptions by Mr. R. A. Rolfe, are 
mentioned : — 
Liparis nana, from Annam. A very small 
plant, with dark purple flowers, and some- 
what anomalous in its very broad nearly 
straight column. Its precise affinity remains 
at present uncertain. Discovered on a plant 
of Cymbidium insigne. 
Cirrhopetalum miniatum, from Annam. 
A remarkable species which flowered in 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, in 
September, 19 10. Sir Fred. W. Moore states 
that it was purchased from Messrs. Sander 
and Sons as having been imported with 
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