. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 534 ORCHID-GEOWER S MANUAL. NANODES, Lindley. (TriJe Epidendreae, subtribe Laelieae.) A very small epiphytal genus of peculiar interest, with a ringent perianth, and a fleshy undivided lip connate with the column. Bentham associates it with U^idendrum under the section Nanae, distinguished like it by distichous sheathing leaves on a dwarf diffuse-growing stem. N. Medusae is a most extraordinary-looking object when in flower, very distinct from any other of
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 534 ORCHID-GEOWER S MANUAL. NANODES, Lindley. (TriJe Epidendreae, subtribe Laelieae.) A very small epiphytal genus of peculiar interest, with a ringent perianth, and a fleshy undivided lip connate with the column. Bentham associates it with U^idendrum under the section Nanae, distinguished like it by distichous sheathing leaves on a dwarf diffuse-growing stem. N. Medusae is a most extraordinary-looking object when in flower, very distinct from any other of its order. Culture.—The little Orcliid described below is a plant well worth cultivating, and requires to be grown on a block, or in a basket, with moss and peat, and kept very cool in the Odontocjlossum house, ,where it should be suspended from the roof, as it is a native of the higher Andes of Western S. America. N. MEDUSAE, Bclih. /.— One of the most singulai* of Orchids. The stems are densely tufted, pendent, branched, covered with broad imbricated sheaths of the distichous glaucous green leaves, which are 3 to 4 inches long, linear-oblong, curved, unequally bilobed at the apex, and semi-amplexicaul at the base; the flowers are leathery, 2| inches across, flat, two or more in the axils of the terminal leaves; the sepals and petals linear-oblong, yel- lowish-green tinged with brown, and the lip very large, orbicular with a cordate base, and a bilobed apex, of a deep maroon-purple, greenish over the disk, the whole margin deeply cut into subulate segments, forming a conspic- uous fringe; the plant has no pseudobulbs to support it, but only a woody stem crowded with greyish-green leaves in two ranks whose sheathing bracts entirely hide the stem itself. Of this plant Sir Joseph Hooker remarks, that, "altogether the flattened stout. KANODES MEDUSAE. (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.'). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been
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