. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . the pseudo-bulbs being oblong and compressed, the leaves lorate orligulate and keeled, and the scape ancipitous, springing fromthe base of the bulb. The flowers are about three inchesacross and over four inches in depth, the sepals and petalsbeing of a creamy white, and the lip pandurately-obovateretuse and slightly wavy, pure white, with a crest of threeyellow linear lamellae blunt and thickened in front, and closeupon these a series of about six club-shaped slightly curvedbars th
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . the pseudo-bulbs being oblong and compressed, the leaves lorate orligulate and keeled, and the scape ancipitous, springing fromthe base of the bulb. The flowers are about three inchesacross and over four inches in depth, the sepals and petalsbeing of a creamy white, and the lip pandurately-obovateretuse and slightly wavy, pure white, with a crest of threeyellow linear lamellae blunt and thickened in front, and closeupon these a series of about six club-shaped slightly curvedbars three-quarters of an inch long of magenta-purple radi-ating from the base, two thin purple lines running backthrough the crest. The white column is bordered withmagenta.—Brazil. Fig.— Orchid Album,iv. t. 164. M. spectabilis rosea, Hort.—This very handsome and rareplant resembles M. spectabilis in its habit of growth, but thepseudobulbs are narrower and longer, as also are the flowers, which are large, have the sepals and petalswhite tinted with light rose, and the lip white irregularly striped.
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