. Orchids: their culture and management. Orchids. AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 407 Oncidium. dark green leaves about gin. long. Flower-spikes strong, arching, many-branched, sometimes 3ft. long, and heavily laden with flowers, which are about lin. across ; sepals and petals small, green, with brownish blotches ; lip large, spreading, bright yellow, with two ovate lateral lobes, then a narrow and short waist ; the large middle lobe being kidney-shaped and notched; crest tieshy and curiously toothed. Cultivated on blocks or rafts, or in baskets, in a mixture of peat-fibre and sphagnum, and kept in the
. Orchids: their culture and management. Orchids. AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 407 Oncidium. dark green leaves about gin. long. Flower-spikes strong, arching, many-branched, sometimes 3ft. long, and heavily laden with flowers, which are about lin. across ; sepals and petals small, green, with brownish blotches ; lip large, spreading, bright yellow, with two ovate lateral lobes, then a narrow and short waist ; the large middle lobe being kidney-shaped and notched; crest tieshy and curiously toothed. Cultivated on blocks or rafts, or in baskets, in a mixture of peat-fibre and sphagnum, and kept in the moist end of the Cattleya- or the intermediate-house whilst. Fig. 140. Flower of Unxidium :Marshalliaxo-Foreesii (nat. size). growing, this and the following will produce fine spikes of flower during'winter and spring. Whilst in bloom they may be trans- ferred to the cool-house" Brazil, 1S47. (W. O. A., iv., t. 192.) Var. Rogersii is by far the best of the several known to cultivation. Specimens with spikes bearing over 150 flowers have been grown in England. The lip in this variety is fully 2in. across, and is of a rich golden-yellow colour, with a few bars of red at the base. (Fig. 139; Fl. Mag., t. 477.) O. zebrinum (Tfr/z^./).—Belonging to the small-lipped section is this very beautiful, large-flowered species. In habit, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Watson, William, 1858-1925; Chapman, H. J. , ed. London, L. U. Gill; New York, C. Scribner's sons
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