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Title: The Gardeners' Chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Gardeners' chronicle (London, England : 1874)
Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, ornamental
Publisher: London: (Gardeners' Chronicle)
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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ypjeudo-bulb produce two flower-spikes at one time,but they do so for two and even three yean in suc-cetiion, a character which, though common amongMasdevallias, has not yet been observed with Odon-toglosgnm. It U therefore quite common to meetwith comparatively amall maises, which are set withtwenty to thirty flower-epikes at one time, and asmany as thirty-eight have been observed onone plant. Such plants look very charming andornamental, more especially as the flower-apikeistand apart from and alightly bend above the shortnarrow leaves, thus forming a semi-globular floweringmass of great beauty. I think scarcely anythingmore graceful as a centre plant at a dinner-tableconld be imagined. The flowers vary somewhat inthe colour of the lip, being sometimes pure white,but more frequently more or less spotted with lilac-crimson. Tne name is given in allusion to thepeculiarly upright bent staminode standing like ashield above the nose-like rostellum. (The Gardeners- Chronicle, September --
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f ;i; Fig. 66.—cyphipidum x lorp demiv: cotocES, nosv-M.Ti and iio;y pli flp. (see p. 85S.) 358 THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. fSEPTEirEca 28, 1595. Plants dense, csspitose, attaining bat smalldimensions. Pseudo-bulbs long-oviform, stronglycompressed, deeply plaited, two-leaved, 4 to 5 5 cm.long, 3 to 3 5 cm. broad. Leaves stiff, papy-raceous, cuneate-oblong, abruptly cuspidate, 15 to18 cm. long, 1 to 15 cm. broad. F.ower - spikenot inclined to branch, 30 to 45 cm. hig:,nine to fifteen flowered. Sepals and petalsoblong, contracted into long ligulate points, andslightly nodulate at the borders, 3 5 to 4 cm.long, 0 6 to 08 cm. broad, clear yellow, blotchedmore or less with red-brown ; the petals a littlesmaller than the sepals. L:p subpanduriform, long-nnguieulate, at the margin finely fringed, at theapex abruptly contracted into a sharp convolutepoint, 3 5 to 4 5 cm. long, 15 to IS cm.broad, pure white, more or less spotted withlilac-crimson. Tne crest consists of four teeth-like laciniie,

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