. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 59C O. VEXILLARIUM.âSee Miltonia vexillaria. O. VUYLSTEKEANUM, Echh. /.âProfessor Eeichenbach in describing this species says:â"A grand thing. Take an Odontoglossum mulua sulphureum, give it a lip much dilated at the top, and add the sharp edges of the petals of Odontoglossimi ; The whole flower is sulphur-coloured, with the few blotches of the odd sepal, the petals, and the lip of the " deepest richest dazzling or
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 59C O. VEXILLARIUM.âSee Miltonia vexillaria. O. VUYLSTEKEANUM, Echh. /.âProfessor Eeichenbach in describing this species says:â"A grand thing. Take an Odontoglossum mulua sulphureum, give it a lip much dilated at the top, and add the sharp edges of the petals of Odontoglossimi ; The whole flower is sulphur-coloured, with the few blotches of the odd sepal, the petals, and the lip of the " deepest richest dazzling orange "; the lateral sepals are also of that colour, except at their base. âNew Grenada. Fig.âOrchid Album, vii. t. 33i. O. WALLISII, Bclib. f.âA slender and graceful plant, with something the aspect of 0. Lindhyanum, but superior to that species on account of the more pleasing colour of the lip. The pseudobulbs are ovoid ancipitous, the leaves linear-lanceolate plicate, and the flowers 2^ inches across, pedicellate, racemose, on a slender scape; the sepals and petals are oblong-lanceolate, the former more narrowed to the base, with a long central bar of reddish brown and a narrow even edge of pale yellow, the latter with the central colour more broken up and the yellow edge broader; the lip has the base tubuloso-clavate, and the limb ovate, constricted in the middle, fimbriate, with a deourved front, white, having a double crest with six spreading horns at the base of the lamina, and behind these a series of rosy-purple streaks, the anterior half being of the same rosy tint edged with white, and marked by a half- circular white loop. It blooms during the winter months.â Xew Grenada. 'Fig.âL'III. Sort., 3rd ser., t. 56 ; Vi'ltcli's Man. Orcli. PL, i. p. 70. O. WARNERIANUM, â âThis very rare and handsome species forms as it were " a connecting link between O. iiebulosum and 0. Roasii, having the broad petals of the former, and the slender narrow pseudo
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