. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 620 ORCHID-grower's spike boars numerous very beautiful and shony flo-svcrs, o inches across, tliick and coriaceous in texture; sepals greenish-yelloiv, transversely barred and blotched-with chocolate- brown ; petals deep choco- late-ljrown, with a narrow yellow- marginal border and a yellow tip; lip large, sub-rotund with a hastate base, margins inflected; rich orange-j-ellow with lines of red spots at the base.—Ei'vndiir : Luxe. YHi.— On-hid Alhi
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 620 ORCHID-grower's spike boars numerous very beautiful and shony flo-svcrs, o inches across, tliick and coriaceous in texture; sepals greenish-yelloiv, transversely barred and blotched-with chocolate- brown ; petals deep choco- late-ljrown, with a narrow yellow- marginal border and a yellow tip; lip large, sub-rotund with a hastate base, margins inflected; rich orange-j-ellow with lines of red spots at the base.—Ei'vndiir : Luxe. YHi.— On-hid Alhinii, x. 'J;./"«r«..'/'//.''.n,xxii. p. 517,: ]!cicliri,};irliUi. 2nd ser,,)4: V,-itrli'xMan. Orrli. PL, Yiii. \>. 5i;. O. LUCESCENS, 7.'r/, —This tine noTclty was introduced by us tlirough Mr. Patin, and is nearly allied to 0. mfiall'n'um. "It diifers in the long, recurved, wavy dorsal sepal, in the trimembrate callus at the base of the lip, and in the acute wings of the column; the dorsal sepal is brown with yellow recurved margin, much graved at the edge; its stalk is very short, with auriculae which ascend on each side into a narrow margin; the lateral sepals have longer stalks, an oblong-acute greenish-brown blade, whose median nerve is rather green inside; jietals very short, with two auricles to the short stalk, lilunt, hastate, triangular, wav^-, dark cinnamon, with crisp 3-elloir limlj; lip ligulate short, angulate at the l^ase, dark gTcenish, anterior part fine purple; column greenish with brown spots, orange at the aiiterior angulate base; wings narrow^ Indian purple, lunar ascending" (H. G. Rcichenliach, in Ganlcners' Chronich, :3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 799).—P. ^ of CohnMa. O. LUDENS, Rrhh. f.—A species with the growth resembling 0. serniium. Sepals rich Ijrown merging into a mixture of ycUowish-ljrown, the upper one with a narrow^ yellow border; petals j-ellow^ with cinnamon-brown marbling; lip pale yellowish och
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