. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . bestgrown in a pot with peat and moss.—Brazil. Fig.—Orchid Album, v., t. 200. M, Clowesii, Liudley.—-This showy plant produces its longracemes of flowers during September and October, and lastsa long time in perfection, sometimes extending into Novemberand December. The pseudobulbs are ovate, two-edged,narrowed upwards, two-leaved, the leaves narrow ligulate,yellowish, and the scape rachcal, bearing a rather lax flowers have both sepals and petals yellow, cross-bandedand
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . bestgrown in a pot with peat and moss.—Brazil. Fig.—Orchid Album, v., t. 200. M, Clowesii, Liudley.—-This showy plant produces its longracemes of flowers during September and October, and lastsa long time in perfection, sometimes extending into Novemberand December. The pseudobulbs are ovate, two-edged,narrowed upwards, two-leaved, the leaves narrow ligulate,yellowish, and the scape rachcal, bearing a rather lax flowers have both sepals and petals yellow, cross-bandedand nearly covered with chestnut broAvn, and the lip, which iscordate, constricted in the middle, having its plurilamellatebase of a deep violet, and its subrotund attenuated apexwhite. Of this species there are several forms, but thevariety called M. Clowesii major is the best. It should begrown in a pot with peat and moss.—Brazil: OrganMoimtains. FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4109 ; Sertum Orch., t. 34 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., ix. 241,with tab.; Gartenjlora, t. 160. Syn.—Brassia Clowesii; Odontoglossum MILTONIA CCNEATA. M. Cimeata, Lhulley.—A very pretty and free-growingspecies, which reaches about ten inches in height, and s 2 412 orchid-growers manual. resembles M, Candida in its manner of growth. The pseudo-bulbs are ovate-oblong, compressed and narrowed at the apex,diphyllous, the leaves ligulate-oblong, keeled on the underside. The scape is radical, bearing an erect raceme of fromsix to eight flowers which are nearly four inches across ; thesepals and petals are of a deep chestnut brown, tipped withpale greenish yellow, and the lip is white, with a claw-likewedge-shaped bilamellate base, each keel terminating in achocolate-coloured spot at the base of the broad roundishanterior part. These flowers are produced in February, andcontinue four or five weeks in perfection. The plant is bestgrown in a pot, in peat, with good drainage.—Brazil. Fig.—Bot. Reg., 1845, t
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