. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ^^\? a cream-colored margin; petals sutspatulate, purplish at the apices, with a green stripe towai'd the base; labellum greenish brown, infolded portion greenish, with a few raised warts; staminode oval. Borneo. 5362. Var. Bulleni^num, Hort. (C. Bullenidnum, Reiohb. f.). Lvs. not so strikingly mottled: fl
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. ^^\? a cream-colored margin; petals sutspatulate, purplish at the apices, with a green stripe towai'd the base; labellum greenish brown, infolded portion greenish, with a few raised warts; staminode oval. Borneo. 5362. Var. Bulleni^num, Hort. (C. Bullenidnum, Reiohb. f.). Lvs. not so strikingly mottled: fls. smaller, upper sepal streaked at the base. Borneo. Var. volonteanum, Hort. Fig. 645. Fls. larger than in the type ; petals oblong spatulate, green, except at extremities, where they are pale mauve, median portion richly dotted with crimson-brown ; labellum greenish brown. June and July, and earlier. Borneo. 16. Appletoni4num, Rolfe (f. Bullenidnum, var. Apple- toniAnum, Hort.). Lvs. less tessellated than in the preced- ing ; staminodium very small, greenish. This form is some- times considered as a sub-variety of C Bullenicbnum. Borneo. EB. Petals and sepals nearly equal: fls. fleshy. 17. cdncolor, Batem. Lvs. oval-oblong, mottled, dull pur- 645. Cypripedium pie beneath: scape short: up- Hookerae, var. volonte- per sepal yellow, dotted with anum (X 3^). purple, similar to the petals; laoellum yellow, compressed. Autumn. Burma. 5513. 18. niveum, Reichb. f. Lvs. oval-oblong to oblong, short, mottled: fls. white; petals and upper sepal nearly equal, finely dotted at base with purple, dots variable in number and distribution. Burma. 5922. ;G6deJroy8B, Leb. Lvs. narrower than in the pre- ceding: scape short: fls. whitish to pale yellow, spotted with purple-magenta ; petals deflexed. Eai-ly, and as late as July. Cochin China. 6876. Gn. 25, p. 396. Var. leucochllum, Hort. Upper sepal white, blotched with deep purple; labellum white; petals like the upper sepa
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