The orchid-grower's manual - containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants (1885) (14584065980)

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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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I THTESIFLORUM. DENDROBIUM. 303 points, the petals very long, erect, twisted, deep purple, and theoblong lip whitish, crispy, purplish violet at the apex, andhaving three elevated lines along the centre. It is best grownin a pot in peat. We seldom see good plants of this speciesunder cultivation.—Philippine Islands : Manilla. FiQ.—Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 28; Fl. des Serves, t. 1904; Paxton, Mag. Bot.,X. 217, with tab, D. teretifoliuiQ, R. Br.—A curious-looking species, verydistinct in habit, which is worth growing on account of theprofusion of flowers it produces in the winter months. Thestems are clustered, dark brown, branched, each branch ter-minating in a long pendent curved terete taper-pointed hardfleshy leaf, very much resembling that of a Scuticaria. Theflowers are produced in lateral dichotomously-branchedpanicles from a branch of the stem ; the sepals and petals areboth linear-filiform and white, the latter being longer thanthe former, and the lip, which bears three wavy l