Orchids for everyone . ng out of flower. Bothmust be grown in a warm house. O. LAMELLiGERUM belongs to the 0. macranthum group, andhas large, brown flowers margined with yellow and with yellowtipped petals. O. MACRANTHUM is a fine species, and its spikes are often sevenor eight feet long. The flowers are three or four inches across,and several of them are borne on each of the branches of theflexuous spike. The upper sepal is yellow and greenish brown,the lower sepals deep yellow, petals brighter yellow, and the lipquite small, white, marked with purple-brown. O. Marshallianum is a brilliant an
Orchids for everyone . ng out of flower. Bothmust be grown in a warm house. O. LAMELLiGERUM belongs to the 0. macranthum group, andhas large, brown flowers margined with yellow and with yellowtipped petals. O. MACRANTHUM is a fine species, and its spikes are often sevenor eight feet long. The flowers are three or four inches across,and several of them are borne on each of the branches of theflexuous spike. The upper sepal is yellow and greenish brown,the lower sepals deep yellow, petals brighter yellow, and the lipquite small, white, marked with purple-brown. O. Marshallianum is a brilliant and splendid species, withflowers of good size, bright yellow, with red-brown bars and spotson the sepals and petals. The spikes are from three to six feethigh, and the flowers are numerous. O. ornithorhynchum has small rosy lilac flowers, carried inblanching spikes a couple of feet long. It usually flowers inWinter, as also does its white variety, O. o. album. O. PUBEs is one of the miniature species, and a pretty plant. ONCIDUIM KRAiMERIANLM. THE MOST USEFUL ORCHIDS 151 for a suspended pan; it rarely exceeds six inches in height, but itsspikes are a foot or more long, drooping, and bear a number otclosely set red-brown, yellow marked flowers. O. PULCHELLUM is a dainty plant that flowers in early Summer;its spikes are rather more than a foot high, and the small flowersare white, charmingly flushed with pink. O. BARCODES is a showy species, and its spikes, from one to twoyards long, are shortly branched and carry a great number of large,yellow-lipped flowers, the sepals and petals being red-brown edgedwith yellow. O. SPHACELATUM is another fine species for an amateur to flowers are not more than an inch across, but they are producedin large numbers on branched spikes that rise from three to fivefeet high. The colour is bright red-brown, with bars and tips ofgolden yellow, the yellow lip having a red-brown mark nearits base. O. SPLENDIDUM is a Sturdy, Winter-flowering spe
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