. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 10. Martiana, Batem. Lvs. lanceolate: sepals broadly ovate, creamy white with few purple spots on the lower half; petals narrower, blotched with purplish crimson, hypochil saccate, white ; lateral horns broad, pointed
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 10. Martiana, Batem. Lvs. lanceolate: sepals broadly ovate, creamy white with few purple spots on the lower half; petals narrower, blotched with purplish crimson, hypochil saccate, white ; lateral horns broad, pointed, middle lobe oblong, obscurely 3-toothed; column sub- clavate, winged. Mexico. 20:2112. Gn. 45, p. 470. — Var. bicolor, Lindl. Ground color of the fls. white. 29 2390. Stanhopea insign the most striking forms among orchids. Var. lutescena, Hort. Brilliant yellow to orange marked with chocolate. Guatemala. Var. superba, Hort. Van Houtte. Fls. yel- low, with the sepals and petals heavily blotched with reddish brown. 7:713. Var. atrata, Hort., is adv. 2391. Stanhopea insignis (X %). 11. saccata, Batem. Fls. smaller than those of the other species, greenish yellow, changing to deeper yel- low at the bases of the segments, regularly speckled with brown; lateral sepals ovate-oblong, the upper one oblong-lanceolate; petals narrower, oblong, all reflexed; hypochil deeply saccate; horns flat, a little twisted, epi- chil quadrate. Guatemala. 8:270 (as S. radiosa). 12. ecornuta, Lem. Pseudobulbs and lvs. large: scape short, clothed with green bracts, 2-fld.: sepals erect, 2 in. long, ovate, concave, white, petals smaller; la- bellum reduced to a fleshy sac-like hypochil, \Vi in. long, yellow deepening to orange at the base; column as long as the labellum and of the same color. Cent. Amer. 4885. 2:181. 1850:295. .S. Amesiana, Hort. Hugh Low, belongs to the hornless class of which S. ecornuta is a type and is perhaps a variety of S. Lowii. It has l
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