. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. '6rO 's manual. - O. EXCAVATUM DAWSONI, Williams.—Though bearing some resemblance to 0. excavatwm, this variety is very much stronger and more robust in all its parts. Thebranching scapes are S feet long, and upon these its large lovely bright yellow and rich brown flowers are borne in great profusion. When well managed the scapes will often produce upwards of a hundred flowers, and wheu seen in this state it is truly a noble object.—Feru. ,.
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. '6rO 's manual. - O. EXCAVATUM DAWSONI, Williams.—Though bearing some resemblance to 0. excavatwm, this variety is very much stronger and more robust in all its parts. Thebranching scapes are S feet long, and upon these its large lovely bright yellow and rich brown flowers are borne in great profusion. When well managed the scapes will often produce upwards of a hundred flowers, and wheu seen in this state it is truly a noble object.—Feru. ,. O. FALCIPETALUM, £inc?Z.—A species belonging to the microchilwm group, producing a " scrambling panicle 20 feet long; flowers 3 inches in diameter; sepals brown, margined with yellow; petals yellow, spotted with brown on the lower halves; lip linear-reflexed, purple-brown, and having a cluster of sharp tubercles in front of the ;—Venezuela. O. FIMBRIATUM, Lindl.—This old and rare species was described by Lindley in 1832 from a drawing of a single flower. It seems to have remained unknown to collectors until quite recently. The pseudobulbs are oblong, two- leaved r leaves linear-oblong; scape many flowered, from 2 to 3 feet in length ; sepals and petals bright yellow, with transverse red bars ; lip yellow.—Brazil. O. FLEXUOSUM, Sims.—^A pretty free-blooming and well-known old species producing its showy yellow-spotted flowers in abundance on large branching panicles. It has oval compressed two-leaved pseudo- bulbs, and oblong-lanceolate striated leaves. The flowers have the very small sepals and petals yellow barred with chestnut-brown, and the large flat lip transversely roundish oblong and bilobed, yellow speckled over with minute chestnut-red dots. The crest is pulvinate with three ridges in front; it blooms at different times of the year, and continues for several weeks in flower. This plant is invaluable for cutting purposes, the small bright
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