. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . s, have ascending lance-shaped sepals and petals of adarkish purple with green mar-gins ; the lip is large, broadlyobovate, the sides meeting overthe column, the front projectedforward, white, the apex thicklystriped and pencilled with purple,the disk bearing four lamellae, andthe spur at the base being greenand recurved. It blooms at dif-ferent times of the year, andGALEANDRA PEVQNiANA. remalus a long time in beauty. Y16.—Lindley, Sert. Orch., t. 37; Bot. Mag., t. 4610; Batem. 2nd
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . s, have ascending lance-shaped sepals and petals of adarkish purple with green mar-gins ; the lip is large, broadlyobovate, the sides meeting overthe column, the front projectedforward, white, the apex thicklystriped and pencilled with purple,the disk bearing four lamellae, andthe spur at the base being greenand recurved. It blooms at dif-ferent times of the year, andGALEANDRA PEVQNiANA. remalus a long time in beauty. Y16.—Lindley, Sert. Orch., t. 37; Bot. Mag., t. 4610; Batem. 2nd Cent.,t. 152; Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i. t. 37; Paxton, Mag. Bot., viii. 145, withtab.; Illust. Hort., t. 176; Maund. Bot., v. t. 231; Lem. Jard. FL, t. 195. Gr. diYeS, Rchb. f.—A very pretty dwarf-growing epiphytalspecies, with stout erect cylindrical stems, lanceolate acumi-nate leaves, and flowers produced from the top of the stemsin diooping racemes in August and September. The sepalsand petals are subequal lanceolate acuminate, reddish brown,and the lip transversely rhomboid, retuse in front, creamy.
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