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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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; Flore des Serres,t. 835. Stn.—Leochilus sanguinolentus. 0. CUCUllatuni flayidum, Hort.—This is a distinct andvery desirable form, similar in habit to the type. Theflowers have the sepals and petals yellow blotched withbrown, and the lip purple margined with white. It must beplaced in the coolest house ; the flowers are produced inspring, and continue a long time in beauty.—New Grenada. 0. CUCUllatuiIl macrocllillim, Lindley.—An entirely difTerent-looking plant from the previous one, but equally beautiful,being, according to Lindley, the finest Alpine Orchid yet dis-covered. It grows about a foot high, and has larger pseudo-bulbs ; the scapes also are stronger, the flexuose racemesbeing two feet in length, and well furnished with its beautifulflowers, which have the sepals and petals of a rich plum colourand crimson, and the lip, which is an inch and a half broad,mauve spotted with dark violet. It must be grown in thecoolest house.—Quitinian Andes, at 13,000 feet elevation.
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ONCIDIUM CURTUM. ONCIDIUM. < 481 0. CUrtum, Lindley.—A very handsome and distinct species,of compact growth, somewhat resembHng 0. crisjyum infoliage and in the shape of the pseudobulbs. The showy-flowers are produced on elongated panicles which proceedfrom the base of the bulb, the sepals and petals obovateobtuse yellow barred and blotched with cinnamon brown,the latter undulated, the roundish bilobed undulated lipgolden yellow having a broad margin of cinnamon brown, withgolden auricles at the base on each side the five-lobed crest,around which many warts are scattered. It blooms duringthe spring months, and lasts several weeks in perfection.The plant will succeed best either in a basket or on a blockwith plenty of drainage.—Brazil. FlG.~Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 68. 0. dasystyle, Bchh. f.—A beautiful dwarf-growing specieswith ovoid ancipitous rugose pseudobulbs, from which pro-ceed a pair of linear-lanceolate leaves four inches long, anda short slender peduncle terminated by a f

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