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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s are of a clear brightchestnut with a narrow even edge of yellow, the petalssmaller, similarly coloured, with two forked bars of paleyellow in addition at the base opposite the lateral lobes of thelip, which are large, erect, crescent-shaped, white spotted withchestnut, the front lobe large, roundish, cuspidate-acuminate,pure white, deeply fringed, the disk with a bifid crest andthree obcuneate brown spots.—New Grenada. Fig.—Xewia Orch., ii. t. 191, figa. 1—3; Illust. Hort., 3 aer., t. 45 ; Orchid)bum, iii. t. 131. 0. llol)ile.—See Odontoglo-!Sum Pescatokei. ODONTOGLOSSUM, 455 0. ddoratum, Lindley.—This remarkably sweet-scentedspecies has oblong compressed grooved pseudobulbs, nar-rowly cnsiform acute leaves, and branching panicles some-times three feet long, the flowers being numerous, and havingthe sepals and petals golden yellow blotched with brownishred, narrowly lanceolate and crispy at the edges ; the lip is ofthe same colour, white towards the base, hastate, with the
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ODONTOGLOSSUM NEVADENSE. front .lobe broadly subulate, and the disk with two pairs oferect teeth. It blooms during the winter months. This plantis often confounded with 0. gloriosum, but it is quite distinct.A variety, latimaculatllin, Andre, is figured in UIllustrationHorticole, in which the parts are larger as well as flattenedout and broader, and the blotches of purple-brown on theseveral members broader and more intensely coloured.—JSIewGrenada.YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. (502; llluJ. ^ori., 3 . er., t. .9 (L.timaculatum). 456 ORCHID-growers manual. 0. CErstedii, Bchh. f.—A very pretty diminutive species,having oblong ancipitous pseudobulbs, which are furnishedwith a single cuneate oblong leaf, and producing erect scapesbearing one or two flowers, of which the lanceolate wavysepals and the obovate retuse undulated petals are pure white,while the flabellate lip, four-lobed in front, is white with ayellow disk and a few red spots. This plant is very flori-ferous, and is in addition del

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