. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. I8SO. Pleione pracox (X X) Lageniria, Lindl. & Past. Pseudobulbs clustered and depressed, as in the other species, dull green, mottled with brown: fls. about 4 in. across, rose-lilac; sepals and petals narrowly lanceolate ; labellum convolute, crisp on the margin, pale lilac, blotched with yellow and deep c
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. I8SO. Pleione pracox (X X) Lageniria, Lindl. & Past. Pseudobulbs clustered and depressed, as in the other species, dull green, mottled with brown: fls. about 4 in. across, rose-lilac; sepals and petals narrowly lanceolate ; labellum convolute, crisp on the margin, pale lilac, blotched with yellow and deep crimson in the throat and having several yel- low crests. Himalaya Mts. 5370. 23:2386. 14:510 (all as Cce'logijne Lagenaria). Gn. 51, p. 64. Eeiolienbachi4na,T. Moore. Pseudobulbs 5-8-groov.(l. flask-shaped but suddenly contracted at the top: s.:i|m> 1-2 in. long, closely sheathed: sepals and petals lin. :m- oblong, pale purple to white; labellum nearly wlui, . middle lobe white with few pale purple .spots, with ;i crests; margin ciliate - toothed. Autumn. Rangoon. 5753. Heinrich Hasselbring. PLEEdMA, See Tihouchina. PLEURISY BOOT is Asclepias tuberosa. PLEUEOTHALLIS (, Intera! branch; referring to (he inflorescence, wliich arises from the axil of the leaf). Orchiddcea;. One of the largest of the genera of orchids containing about 400 species, dispersed in the region extending from Brazil and Bolivia to Mexico and the West Indies. On account of tlieir small, inconspicu- ous flowers these plants are of no value. and not generally cultivated, rhizome, sheathed with scale singleleafat the summit: fls. i the axil of the leaf; sepals united at in taN Miia the a le lateral ones him free, simi- .short, without PLUM Eoezlii, Reichb. f. Lvs. oblong-lanceoKite, 4-10 in. long: flower-stem often a little longer than the Ivs.: fls. purple-brown, in a one-sided raceme. Colombia. ornita, Reichb, f. A very small c
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