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Identifier: orchidgrowersman00inwill (find matches)
Title: The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London : Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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at fleshy partially expandedperianth, connate lateral sepals subsaccate at the base forming avery short chin, a pair of lamellae at the base of the lip, anda semiterete column deeply excavated in front, the anther bedwith a descending border and a bicuspidate rostellum. The 406 ORCHID-GROWER S MANUAL. sepals are however only united at the extreme base to formthe very short mentum in M. vulcanicum. The species arenatives of the Peruvian Andes. Culture.—The plants of this genus are evergreens, requiringcool treatment, and are best grown in baskets suspended fromthe roof, as they produce drooping spikes of flower from thesides of the pseudobulbs. They should be placed in a com-post of peat and moss, giving them a liberal supply of waterduring the growing season. They are propagated by dividingthe pseudobulbs. M. sangumeuin, Rchb. f.—This very pretty plant, thoughknown long since, was not brought in a living state to thiscountry until a few years ago. In habit it resembles the smaller
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MESOSPINIDITJM SANGTTINETJM. Odontofjlossums. The pseudobulbs are oval compressed,clouded with prettily mottled bands of brown, and bearingtwo cuneate ligulate leaves. The flowers come in slender MICROSTYLIS. 407 drooping slightly branched racemes, which spring from thebase of the bulbs, and bear numerous flowers of a beautifulwaxy appearance, bright rose in colour, and produced insummer and autumn, lasting several weeks in perfection.—Peru; Ecuador.Em.—Bot. Mag., t. 5627; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 196. M. vulcanicum, Rchb. f.—A very pretty species, differingfrom M. sangidneum in having erect instead of droopingflower spikes. The pseudobulbs are ovoid, compressed, andmore or less two-edged, with oblong keeled bluntish leavesthree to five inches long, and unilateral racemes of flowers ona slender erect peduncle, the flowers about two inches across,of a dark bright rose colour, from twelve to twenty on a spike,and producing a charming effect since they remain in fullbeauty for

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  • bookyear:1885
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Williams__Benjamin_Samuel__1822_1890
  • booksubject:Orchids
  • bookpublisher:London___Victoria_and_Paradise_Nurseries
  • bookcontributor:University_of_Pittsburgh_Library_System
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