. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. ODONTOGLOSSUM. 541 become suffused over their whole surface; the lip is pandurate cuspidate serrate, yellow with two or three reddish-brown spots, and a bifurcate callus as in 0. crispum. The lip is pointed as in 0. Andersonianum. It flowers during the summer months.—Neiv Grenada. Fig.—Lindcnia, iii. t. 128. O. BERGMANI, L. Lind.—This novelty was first flowered and exhibited by Mr. F. Bergman, gardener to Baron Alphonse de Eothsohild, Ferrieres, France, and
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. ODONTOGLOSSUM. 541 become suffused over their whole surface; the lip is pandurate cuspidate serrate, yellow with two or three reddish-brown spots, and a bifurcate callus as in 0. crispum. The lip is pointed as in 0. Andersonianum. It flowers during the summer months.—Neiv Grenada. Fig.—Lindcnia, iii. t. 128. O. BERGMANI, L. Lind.—This novelty was first flowered and exhibited by Mr. F. Bergman, gardener to Baron Alphonse de Eothsohild, Ferrieres, France, and appears to be a natural hybrid. Flowers 4 inches across ; sepals and petals white, the former having broad bands of chocolate-brown; petals irregularly spotted with the same colour; lip white, having a blotch similar in colour on the lower portion and a few smaller spots.—TT. S. of Colombia. Fig.—Ziadenia, vi. t. 286. O. BICTONIENSE, Lindl.—A well-known free-growing species, with oblong compressed pseudobulbs, bearing two or three ensiform undulated leaves, and upright racemes of flowers, in which the sepals and petals are green spotted with brown, and the cordate acuminate lip lilac or pink, or sometimes white. The variety album, figured in L'Illustration Sorticole, 3rd ser., t. 91, has the sepals and petals wholly of a bright chestnut-brown, and the lip white, and that figured as splendens in the same work, t. 449, has the sepals green and brown, and the lip bright rosy lilac. The name africanum was given by misadventure. —Mexico: Guatemala, 6,000—7,000 feet. Fig.—5oi. Beg., 1840, t. 66 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3812 (lip whitish); Batom. Orch. Mux. ct Guat., t. 6 ; Id., Man. Odont., t. 18 ; VlU. ITort., t. 449 ; Id., 3rd ser., t. 91 (album} ; More des Serres, t. 1502 (lip pink) ; Moore, III. Orcli. Pl.^doiitoglosswm), t. 6 ; Garten- Hora, 1837, t. 1250. SYN.— CyrtocliiUim hiotoniense ; Zygopetalum africanum. O. BICTONIENSE SUPERBUM, Willia/ms.—A distinct free-gr
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