. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . CYPEIPEDIU:. tflCROCHILUM. CYPRIPEDIUJI. 251 Broomfield. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, acute, faintlymottled with transverse markings above, and of a wine-purplebeneath. The flowers are medium-sized, on dark purplehairy scapes ; the dorsal sepal is broad ovate, ciliate at thebase, blush white with green and purple stripes or nerves ;the petals are linear-oblong, ciliate, purplish crimson with greennerves; and tlil glossy lip is yellowish green in front, veinedand barred with cr
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . CYPEIPEDIU:. tflCROCHILUM. CYPRIPEDIUJI. 251 Broomfield. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, acute, faintlymottled with transverse markings above, and of a wine-purplebeneath. The flowers are medium-sized, on dark purplehairy scapes ; the dorsal sepal is broad ovate, ciliate at thebase, blush white with green and purple stripes or nerves ;the petals are linear-oblong, ciliate, purplish crimson with greennerves; and tlil glossy lip is yellowish green in front, veinedand barred with crimson-purple, the point margined withdeep wine-purple. It blooms during the winter and springmonths, as it completes its growth, and the flowers last sixweeks or more in perfection.—Garden —Orchid Album, ii. t. 95. C. meianopllthalnilini, Echb. /.—One of Mr. R. Warnersfine hybrids. It is a free-growing, free-blooming variety ofthe dwarf distichous leaved group, the leaves in this casebeing of a pale dull green with coarse elongate reticulationsof a darker green. The flowers are medium-sized, with greensc
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