hang nearly horizontally. The f l o w e r s themselves are nearly three and a half inches in diameter;
their s e p a l s and p e t a l s are oblong, rather obtuse, spreading equally, much undulated, and mottled
with rich brown upon a dull yellowish ground. The l i p is white, very much undulated, rolled
round the column, when spread open almost orbicular, with a small downy tubercle at its very base,
and five elevated lines running from it towards the upper end ; of these lines the central and outside
ones are shorter than the intermediate one; the latter and the external lines are slightly toothed, the
central one is uninterrupted. The c o l u m n is short, downy, with two fleshy truncated ears at
the base, and a winged crisp anther bed, which runs down in front, on each side of the stigma, in
the form of two flaps. -The a n t h e r itself is round and hairy. Fig. 1. represents the inside of a
lip, spread open; 2. is a front view of the column; 3. an anther; and 4. the pollen-masses, with
their caudicula and gland'; one of the pollen-masses being’ cut across to shew that it is excavated at
the,back. ,ii ■
. . Ag a genus Miltonia need only be compared with Oncidium, Cyrtochilum, and Odontoglossum.
It differs from the first in its lateral sepals being not only distinct, bu,t spreading equally from the
centre and not placed beneath the column; in its lip being either flat or convolute, undivided, not
lobed or indented at the sides; and finally in the elevations at the base of the lip not being tubercles
or other convexities, but simply plates following the course of the veins. With Cyrtochilum it
agrees in the latter character, but it differs in its lip not being tapered to the point or unguiculate,
and much more developed. From Odontoglossum it is known by its lip not being unguiculate, nor
furnished with a pair of parallel often confluent plates at the base, and by its short column.