. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. DENDROBIUM. â 347 t J?", ' ^"^^y-â^ very distinct and handsome plant, growing in the way ot ^. longtcomu, with upright terete nigro-hirsute stems 1 foot high, furnished with dark green ovate-oblong obliquely-tipped foliage, and producing from the side ot the stem near the top dense seven-flowered racemes of large distinctly spurred flowers, measuring about 2 inches across, of a bright yellow colour, witli SIX red veins on the base of the lip, set
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. DENDROBIUM. â 347 t J?", ' ^"^^y-â^ very distinct and handsome plant, growing in the way ot ^. longtcomu, with upright terete nigro-hirsute stems 1 foot high, furnished with dark green ovate-oblong obliquely-tipped foliage, and producing from the side ot the stem near the top dense seven-flowered racemes of large distinctly spurred flowers, measuring about 2 inches across, of a bright yellow colour, witli SIX red veins on the base of the lip, set off by crimson fringes. This will succeed in a pot or basket, or on a block, provided it has a liberal supply of water when m vigorous growth. We have seen it bloom in summer and also late in autumn.â Borneo. Fig.â£ot. Mag., t. 5303 ; Flore den Sevres, t. 2395. D. LOWIl PLEIOTRICHUM, HM. /-A variety without the red lines on the lip. D. LUNA, Hort. Lain-ence.âThis hybrid is a crosis between D. Ainaworlh ii and D. Findlayanum. The growth of this favours the latter parent, but the bulbs are not quite so distinctly noded. The flowers are very delicate and beautiful; sepals and petals yellowish-white, faintly tipped with pale rose; lij) white with pale yellow throat. Blooms in January. Sweet scented.âGarden hybrid. D. LUTEOLUM, Bateman.âA very distinct and desirable species, in which the stems are erect and terete, and bear lanceolate leaves, and simultaneously on the upper part of the stems a profusion of short lateral two- to four-flowered racemes of pale primrose-coloured flowers, of which the lip has roundish lateral lobes, and the middle lobe a, downj- yellow disk marked by a few red lines. It flowers during the months of January- and February, and lasts several weeks in perfec- tion.âMoulmein. YlGr.âBnt.]l/ag., ; Veitcli'-i Mini. Oreh. PI., iii. p. 57 ; Journ. of Hort., 18S6, xii. p. 175, f. 29. CHLOROCEN- TRUM, Be]ib. /.âThis variety is altogethe
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