. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . A most distinct and desirable speciesâ of the stemless group, having stout ligulate acute leaves aboutnine inches in length and an inch and a half in breadth. Theflowers are produced singly on an erect brownish hairy dorsal sepal is greenish yellow, covered on the outsidewith dark glandular hairs, and having a purplish brown stripedown its centre ; the petals are broad ligulate, bent somewhatdownwards, greenish yellow, and like the dorsal sepal having apurplish brown cent
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . A most distinct and desirable speciesâ of the stemless group, having stout ligulate acute leaves aboutnine inches in length and an inch and a half in breadth. Theflowers are produced singly on an erect brownish hairy dorsal sepal is greenish yellow, covered on the outsidewith dark glandular hairs, and having a purplish brown stripedown its centre ; the petals are broad ligulate, bent somewhatdownwards, greenish yellow, and like the dorsal sepal having apurplish brown central stripe, marked also with small darkspots near the base ; and the lip is pale yellow with numerousbrown spots on its channelled base. It was introduced byColonel H. Drury, and flowers duiing May and SxmQ.âIndia:South Travancore Mountains. YiG.âBedd. Icon. PI. Or., t. 112 ; III. Hort., 3 ser., t. 265 ; Floral 3Iag.,2 ser., t. 425. C. euryandrum, Bchh. f.âA very distinct hybrid betweenC. Stonei and C. barbatum. The plant is of a robust habitof growth, and has deep green faintly tessellated ligulate.
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