The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . only a brief ifdistinguished list. Loxense seems to have been not uncommon in our fatherstime, but no plants have arrived from Peru—Loxa is thedistrict—for many years. It makes a long spike withbranches, bearing a great number of large flowers ; sepalsgreenish ochre, crossed with blurs of chocolate; petals deepbrown, edged and tipped with yellow. Lip large and flowing,as it were, orange-yellow, speckled with red in the throat. JVeltoni.—Classed of late among Miltonias. A singularand fascinating species, difficult to g
The Woodlands orchids described and illuswith stories of orchid collecting . only a brief ifdistinguished list. Loxense seems to have been not uncommon in our fatherstime, but no plants have arrived from Peru—Loxa is thedistrict—for many years. It makes a long spike withbranches, bearing a great number of large flowers ; sepalsgreenish ochre, crossed with blurs of chocolate; petals deepbrown, edged and tipped with yellow. Lip large and flowing,as it were, orange-yellow, speckled with red in the throat. JVeltoni.—Classed of late among Miltonias. A singularand fascinating species, difficult to grow and still more difficultto flower. The sepals and petals are very narrow, with edgeslike a saw, greenish brown, widening out suddenly at the tip,which is yellow. The lip is extraordinary in all respects. Itshows a fine broad disc of dusky purple, with a darker baracross the middle ; and below this, sharply divided as if bya stroke of the brush, two smaller discs pure white. Uponthe whole to be wondered at rather than admired, but moreinteresting on that STORY OF ONCIDIUM SPLENDIDUM We all know that to make a thing conspicuous abovemeasure is the most effective way of baffling those who seekit. Wendell Holmes has expounded the natural law of thisphenomenon, and Edgar Foe exemplified it in a famousstory. I am about to give an instance from the life, asstriking as his fiction. Oncidium splendidum is one of the stateliest orchids wehave, and one of the showiest. Its leaves are very large,fleshy and rigid, and the tall flower spike bears a number ofpale yellow blooms striped with brown, each three inchesacross. There is no exaggeration in saying that they wouldcatch the most careless eye as far oif as one could seethem. At an uncertain date in the fifties a merchant captain—whose name and that of his ship have never been recovered—brought half a dozen specimens to St. Lazare and gavethem to his owner, M. Herman. This gentleman sold thelot to MM. Thibaud and K
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