. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . with longitudinal bars and oblong blotches of purple-crimson,the margins and tips unspotted. The lip is elongate triangularacuminate wavy pale yellow, having three or four purple-crimson spots variously disposed on its anterior part; on thedisk are a pair of prominent divergent crests, the area whichsurrounds them being deep yellow. It flowers during thesummer months.—New —Orchid Album, ii. t. 85. 0. Horsmanni, Rchb. f. — A very beautiful and distinctplant, supposed to
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . with longitudinal bars and oblong blotches of purple-crimson,the margins and tips unspotted. The lip is elongate triangularacuminate wavy pale yellow, having three or four purple-crimson spots variously disposed on its anterior part; on thedisk are a pair of prominent divergent crests, the area whichsurrounds them being deep yellow. It flowers during thesummer months.—New —Orchid Album, ii. t. 85. 0. Horsmanni, Rchb. f. — A very beautiful and distinctplant, supposed to be a natural hybrid between 0. Pescatoreiand 0. luteo-jmrpureum. The pseudobulbs are pear-shaped,compressed. The flowers are of good form, well filled up, andvery ornamental; the sepals and petals yellowish white blotchedwith cinnamon; the lip broad, yellowish white, with a largeyellow disk blotched with cinnamon. It was discovered byMr, Frederick Horsman. When the many-flowered racemesof this Odontoglot are well developed, as we have frequentlyseen them, the efiect they produce is highly pleasing. The. ODOXTOGLOSSU.
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