. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 148 ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. densely spotted with brown, green on the lower portion of the outside; flowers iA June. There are many varieties of this plant.—Tropical America, east of the Andes. Tia.—Sot. Mag., t. 2259 ; Id., t. 3329 (tridentatum) ; Sot. Reg., t. 840; Sooh Ex. M., tt. 91—2 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. I'Sii (Claveringii) ; L'Illustration SoHlcole, xxxiii. t. 669. Stn.— C. tridentatum ; C. Claveringii. C. MACROCARPUM CHRYSANTHUM, Linden et Bodigas.—Th
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. 148 ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. densely spotted with brown, green on the lower portion of the outside; flowers iA June. There are many varieties of this plant.—Tropical America, east of the Andes. Tia.—Sot. Mag., t. 2259 ; Id., t. 3329 (tridentatum) ; Sot. Reg., t. 840; Sooh Ex. M., tt. 91—2 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. I'Sii (Claveringii) ; L'Illustration SoHlcole, xxxiii. t. 669. Stn.— C. tridentatum ; C. Claveringii. C. MACROCARPUM CHRYSANTHUM, Linden et Bodigas.—This variety was first flowered by Madame E. Gribez, of Sens, France, in 1888; it differs from the type in having the perianth bright yellow instead of greenish yellow.— South America. Fig.—Lindenia, v. t. 197. C. PILEATUM, —According to the late Professor Reichenbach, this is a curious large-flowered species, with a broad white lip, reminding one of Mormodes luxaium, "sepals narrow, large, ligulate acute, light reddish. I am, however, by no means sure whether the colour is natural or a consequence of withering. Petals broad, oblong-acute, white; lip a wide nearly triangular obtusangled expansion, descending at the base into a blunt cone. Column white with a very long apicular beak, and two well-developed ;—Gard. Chron. 1886, xxvi. p. 616. C. PULCHRUM, N. E. Brown.—Pseudobulbs fusiform, inflorescence pen- dent, sepals and petals yellow, transversely barred and spotted with reddish brown; lip ochre yellow, sack- shaped.—Brazil. Fig.—Zindenia, iii. t. 120. C. RODIGASIANUM, Bolfe.— A distinct and pretty species with thick fusiform pseudobulbs and sub-erect spikes one foot long ; flowers three inches across; sepals green outside, spotted with dark purple brown, inside almost wholly purple brown; petals green inside and outside spotted with dark purple brown; lip greenish yellow covered with purple brown spots. Flowers produced in sum-
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