. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. forty years ago from a specimen col-lected by Hartweg on the Cordillera, near Loxa, in Peru, whereit is said to produce flower-panicles nine feet long, the flow-ers as in O. falcipetalum. In 1884 Reichenbach notices it inthe Gardeners Chronicle, in consequence of Mr. Sander hav-ing forwarded to him specimens and a drawing, but livingflowers of it do not appear to have been seen in England untilthey were shown on a plant at the Temple last week. Thisplant has oblong compressed pseudo-bulbs, broad, somewhatrigid, leaves,
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. forty years ago from a specimen col-lected by Hartweg on the Cordillera, near Loxa, in Peru, whereit is said to produce flower-panicles nine feet long, the flow-ers as in O. falcipetalum. In 1884 Reichenbach notices it inthe Gardeners Chronicle, in consequence of Mr. Sander hav-ing forwarded to him specimens and a drawing, but livingflowers of it do not appear to have been seen in England untilthey were shown on a plant at the Temple last week. Thisplant has oblong compressed pseudo-bulbs, broad, somewhatrigid, leaves, and a spike five feet long bearing numerousflowers as large as those of 0. macranthum, but differing fromall other plants of the Microchila section in the size and formof its labellum, which resembles the lip of the African Lisso-chilus Krebsii in form and color. The sepals and petals arebrown, with irregular blotches of yellowish green, and the lipis deep yellow. A batch of plants of this species was sold byauction in London in 1884. 294 Garden and Forest. [Number Fig. 51.—Old Cedar in Devonshire Churchyard, Bermuda.—See page 28
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