. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. EPISTEl'HIUM. 39f £• WENDLANDIANUM, Krdiizlin.—A new species named in tonour of Herr Wendland of Herrenhausen, near Hanover. " The flowers rise one to three on each flower-stalk, and are of a very bright colour. The sepals and petals are light green, the labellum is snowy-white, with dark pm-plish lines on the side-lobes ; the gynostemium or column is likewise coloured dark purple. The diameter of the flower is nearly 2 inches; the labellum has two sma
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. EPISTEl'HIUM. 39f £• WENDLANDIANUM, Krdiizlin.—A new species named in tonour of Herr Wendland of Herrenhausen, near Hanover. " The flowers rise one to three on each flower-stalk, and are of a very bright colour. The sepals and petals are light green, the labellum is snowy-white, with dark pm-plish lines on the side-lobes ; the gynostemium or column is likewise coloured dark purple. The diameter of the flower is nearly 2 inches; the labellum has two small side lobes, and a much larger cordate mid-lobe, with three elevated veins in the middle, and a hairy cushion at the base" (Kranzlin, in Gardeners' Ohronirlc, 3rd sfv., 1893, xiv. p. 58).—Me:ricu. E. XANTHINUM, Liiidl.—A very haudsomo plant, flowering for a very long time; it belongs to the set which is destitute of pseudobulbs. Stem slender terete, some 2 or 3 feet high, and bearing distichous fleshy leaves, which are oblong and deep green. The umbel of flowers is terminal and many-flowered, sepals and petals somewhat oblong ovate, nearly equal, spreading, clear bright yellow; li]) three-lobed, all deflexed, and prettily fringed with toothed edges, rich yellow, bearing an orange-yellow fleshy tubercle ;it the base. Blooms in the winter months.—Caraccas. EPISTEPHIUM, Kimth. (Ti-iic Neottieae, snltriha Vauilleae.) A genus of terrestrial Orchids allied to Sohralia, from which it differs by the sepals being free, and surrounded at the base by a shallow-toothed calyculate rim, those of Sohralm being connate, and having no rim at the summit of the ovary. They are erect-growing, with rigid coriaceous nervose leaves, and showy flowers in terminal racemes. Some half-dozen species from Tropical South America are known tobotanists. Culture.—Being a terres- trial species, the crowns shotild not be elevated above the rim of the pot. They succeed best when potted in fibr
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