. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . pot, with peatand moss.—Brazil. YlG.—Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 23; JJlust. Uort., 3 ser., ; Paxton,Mag. Bot., xvi. 257, with tab.; Flore des Sevres, yi. 237, with fig. SiN.—0. Rigbyanum. 0. serratum, Lindley.—A pretty species of very distinctaspect, on account of its long straggling semiscandent pseudobulbs are oval, six inches high or more, bearinglarge rigid lorate acute leaves a foot long, and the scapetwining and branched, from six to twelve feet long, bear
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . pot, with peatand moss.—Brazil. YlG.—Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 23; JJlust. Uort., 3 ser., ; Paxton,Mag. Bot., xvi. 257, with tab.; Flore des Sevres, yi. 237, with fig. SiN.—0. Rigbyanum. 0. serratum, Lindley.—A pretty species of very distinctaspect, on account of its long straggling semiscandent pseudobulbs are oval, six inches high or more, bearinglarge rigid lorate acute leaves a foot long, and the scapetwining and branched, from six to twelve feet long, bearingmany large flowers, which are bright chocolate brown mar-gined with yellow. The sepals, as are all the parts of theflower, are much crisped at the margins, the dorsal one reni-form, and the lateral obovate, much lengthened out; the petalssmaller, ovate acute, and connivent, the lip also small andhastate. It should be grown in rough fibrous peat, andplaced in the cool house.—Peru. ¥iG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5632; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 194; , 1850, 279, with fig. Stn.—(?. ONCIDIUM. 501 0. sessile, Lindhy.—A pretty species of compact has two-leaved oblong compressed pseudobulbs, the leaveslorate papery, and the flower scapes bearing panicles of largepale yellow flowers, spotted in the centre with pale cinnamoncolour. These flowers are an inch and a half across andnearly two inches deep, the sepals and petals oblong, and thelip auricled with the three-lobed crest smooth and hollowedout, and the broad front portion dilated and retuse. Thisspecies, which blooms during the spring months, and lastsin bloom four weeks, will do well in the Cattleya house.—Caracas: Santa Martha. ElG.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. t. 21. 0. sphacelatnm, Lindley.—A good free-growing, free-blooming species, with elongate ovate ancipitous pseudo-bulbs, long ensiform leaves, and longbranching panicles of flowers, whichare bright yellow, the sepals andpetals transv
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