The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . macrantha. A flower of this species, which is fully describedin Vol. I., is shown in Fig. 277. Coryanthes— macrocorys (lar^e-hel meted), fi. large, pale yellowish-white,spotted and dnttfii with purple, and having a very elongated,tniml>Ie-sliap<.il hood at tlie l)ase of the lip, streaked and spottedwith purple. Peru, 1892. A very riistinct species. (L. viii.,t. 342.) C. maculata punctata (dotted), fi. large ; sepals and netalsochre-yell
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . macrantha. A flower of this species, which is fully describedin Vol. I., is shown in Fig. 277. Coryanthes— macrocorys (lar^e-hel meted), fi. large, pale yellowish-white,spotted and dnttfii with purple, and having a very elongated,tniml>Ie-sliap<.il hood at tlie l)ase of the lip, streaked and spottedwith purple. Peru, 1892. A very riistinct species. (L. viii.,t. 342.) C. maculata punctata (dotted), fi. large ; sepals and netalsochre-yellow, spotted wine-purple; lip with a hood-shaped bodynear the base, to which a large, ht-lmet-shaped, pedunculateai)pendage is attached, the hood yellowish, spotted and blotchedwine-purple, the pouch more heavily marked. October andNovember. Demerara. (B. R. 1793 ; W. O. A. iii. 98.) C. m. vitrina (greenish), fl. of a light greenish-yellow. 1895. Other varieties are: AlbcrtiiKe (F. d. S. viii., t. 755), which ispractically identical with jntnctata; and Parkeri (B. M. 3747), inwhich the hypochil of the lip is of a dingy i Fin. 277. OF Couvantiifs macrantha.
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