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Identifier: orchidgrowersman00inwill (find matches)
Title: The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London : Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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o-bulbs are oblong ovate, compressed, diphyllous; its leavesare oblong ligulate, and its radical scape bears a vigorousraceme, the individual flowers of which are about four inchesacross. The sepals and petals are oblong lanceolate, coarselytoothed at the edges, of a bright yellow heavily blotched withchestnut brown ; the lip is small, much fringed and toothed,similar in shape to that of 0. luteo-purpureum, yellow with alarge blotch of chestnut brown in the centre. The plant issupposed to be a natural hybrid between 0. Pescatorei and0. luteo-purpureum.—New Grenada. Fig.—Gard. Chron., N.S., xvii. 632, fig. 97, and supp. sheet. 450 OKCHID-GROWER S MANUAL. 0. maculatum, La Have.—A pretty and attractive species.It has oblong compressed monophyllous pseudobulbs, oblongnervose leaves, and pendulous or semi-erect many-floweredracemes which are produced during winter. The sepalsare chestnut brown within, marked with green trans-verse bars at the base, sometimes violet-purple; the petals
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ODONTOGLOSSUM LTROGLOSSUM. yellow thickly spotted on the basal half with reddish brown,and the lip cordate of the same colour as the petals. It willlast in bloom a long time, and succeeds best in a cool house,in a pot, in peat and moss.—Mexico. ¥iQ.—Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 30 ; Pescatorea, t. 28; Paxton, Mag. Bot., xiii.147, -with tab. (as cordatum) ; Batetn., Mon. Odont, t. 20 j Orchid Album, ii.t. 62 ; Floral Mag., t. 348 (as maculosum). ODONTOGLOSSUM. 451 0. maculatum integrale, Bchb. f.—A very interestingvariety of 0. macxdatum, having the same habit of growth.The flowers have the sepals light brown, the petals whitewith a few transverse bars of brown at the base, and the lipwhite with a yellow crest.—Guatemala. 0. madrense, Bchb. f.—A very distinct and handsomespecies, with tall ligulate or narrowly-oblong two-edged

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Williams__Benjamin_Samuel__1822_1890
  • booksubject:Orchids
  • bookpublisher:London___Victoria_and_Paradise_Nurseries
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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