. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . MILTONIA. 415 witli rich deep rosy lake in broad unequal bands with a few-detached blotches. It flowers during summer, and remains inperfection for several weeks.—Brazil. Fig.—Illmt. Eort., t. —31. rosea; M. Warneri. Ml Warscewiczii, Bchb. f.—A very distinct and handsomeplant, which has borne in gardens several names, includingOncidium fuscatum, but which our chief authorities now placeunder Milionia. It has tall flattened narrow oblong pseudo-bulbs, oblong obtuse pale gree
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . MILTONIA. 415 witli rich deep rosy lake in broad unequal bands with a few-detached blotches. It flowers during summer, and remains inperfection for several weeks.—Brazil. Fig.—Illmt. Eort., t. —31. rosea; M. Warneri. Ml Warscewiczii, Bchb. f.—A very distinct and handsomeplant, which has borne in gardens several names, includingOncidium fuscatum, but which our chief authorities now placeunder Milionia. It has tall flattened narrow oblong pseudo-bulbs, oblong obtuse pale green leaves, and nodding paniclesof numerous crowded flowers, whose peduncle springs from theaxil of an accessory leaf sheathing the bulb. The short sepalsand petals are bluntly cuneate ligulate and prettily undulated,dark brownish purple tipped with white, and the sessile lipis nearly orbicular, deeply bilobed, of a velvety brownishpurple margined with rosy lilac, giving a roundish outline tothe purple area, in the midst of which there is a transverselyoblong shining patch, which from being glossy appe
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