. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . rowth,and to some extent resembling 0. P. Schroderianum in itsflowers. The sepals and petals are white transverselyblotched at the base with mauve-purple, these markingshaving the peculiarity of agreeing in their positions on thesepals and petals, so that they form a series of irregular spotsand broken rings extending towards the apex. This plantis in the collection of Baron Schroder.—New Grenada. ElG.—Orchid Album, ii. t. 68. 0. Phalsenopsis, Linden etEchh. f.—A most lovely com-pa
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . rowth,and to some extent resembling 0. P. Schroderianum in itsflowers. The sepals and petals are white transverselyblotched at the base with mauve-purple, these markingshaving the peculiarity of agreeing in their positions on thesepals and petals, so that they form a series of irregular spotsand broken rings extending towards the apex. This plantis in the collection of Baron Schroder.—New Grenada. ElG.—Orchid Album, ii. t. 68. 0. Phalsenopsis, Linden etEchh. f.—A most lovely com-pact - habited, elegant - growingspecies, whose large showyflowers are in strong contrast tothe slender foliage. It has ob-long compressed pseudobulbsnarrowed upwards, bearing eachone linear acute grassy leaf eightinches to a foot long. Theflowers, which are generally twoor more together on a spike, areflat and very distinct from thoseof any other kind ; the petalsare obovate obtuse, the sepalsoblong-ligulate and more acute,both white; and the hp, whichis panduriform, broader in front, and emarginate, is. ODOXTOGLOSSUJI PHAL^XQPSIS. also 458 OKCHID-GBOWERs MANUAIi. white with two great crimson blotches, one on each side of thecentre, where occurs a broken bar or two of the same colour,the front edge of the blotches being extended into plant blooms in summer, and. will last in bloom four orfive weeks. This is a free plant to cultivate, but it requiresthe heat of the Cattleya house in winter to grow it well; italso requires a well-drained pot, and good fibrous peat soil.—New Grenada. FlG.—Pesca/orea, t. 44; Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 30 ; Baiem., , t. 3 ; Gard. Chron., 1872, 832, fig. 191 (specimen plant).Syn.—Miltonia pulchella. 0. Pollettianuni, Hort.—A very handsome and distinctOdontoglot, probably a natural hybrid between 0. crispumand O. f/loriosum. The sepals and petals are white tingedwith purple on the underside and heavily blotched and
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