SELECT

OROHIDACEOUS PLANTS.

SECOND SERIES.

ORCHIDACEOUS PLANTS.
SECOND SERIES.

ROBERT WARNER, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.

LONDON

LOVELL REEVE & CO, 5, HENRI TREET, COVENT GARDEN,

1805—1875.

Dedicated

By Special Permission

HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY

QUEEN VICTORIA,
BY HER MAJESTY'S

LOYAL AND MOST OBEDI

ROBERT WARNER.

INTRODUCTION.

Wis in 1865 the first series of forty Plates of مسق‎ Oneurpsceous Praxis was completed, we

‘engaged, in compliance with numerous requests which were then made to us, to publish a second series of

similar Tlustrations. hat pledge we have now redeemed by the issue of a series of thirty-nine Plates repre-

senting amongst them some of the most charm

of the modern additions which have been made to the

ont this d

Orchid family. We refer without hesitation to the pictures themselves, as bearin xiption of the

subjects portrayed, as a choice selection from amongst the many splendid acquisitions which have been and.

continuo to be introduced to our gardens

We appeal, moreover, tothe plates themselves as evidence that, from an artistic point of view, our

gements have been fully met

ht out, with great success, the points which it was most

Mr. Fitch's happy and facile pencil has bro

desirable to set before our subs

ribers, a result which has been aided by the ample size of our page, which,

with few exceptions, is adequate to the faithful portrayal of the leading characteristics of the plants illus-

‘rated, without being cumbrous in its dimensions,

ne to

‘The practical information which accompanies each plate is calculated to be of the ulmo:
p ip

tice of

cultivators, especially to those having buta limited experience. As the record of the actual pra

trado cu

one of the most successful of E "

ors, it may be implicitly relied on ; while the knowledge

which we have ourselves obtained from many year experience, and which occasionally supplies an

int, renders the instructions all the more cor

additional plete. The descriptive particulars also, being.

carefully and faithfully drawn up by a well-practisel hand, bear their own especial value

So well hase these Tllostrations answered tho end we hai

in view in commencing them, that we have

been urgently requested to extend them to a Third Series, which, relying on the support of our subscribers,
i 1

mend, nor has it been continued, as

we shall be very willing to do. peculation for

als

our of love quence it has always been and will continue to be our object,

profit, but

to throw the value of the subscriptions into the execution and finish of the plates, and we have on this ground

a special claim on the support of those who take an interest in the Orchid fami

Us FT Backs vil bo commaacod forthwith and yo ao nob vill Bope at bo سس‎
attending the execution of ho work may be such as to facilitate a more raid than has been.
fhe cue with tho seis js now brought to a conclusion, ico many sketches ar already in hand, and
e they may make their appearance.

drawings will be secured of deserving novelties as from time to time

Subscribers, however, should bear in mind that it is very undesirable, in a work of this character, to

figure new flowers on the occasion of their first blooming country, as they rarely show their full

beauty under the adverse conditions to which they have been submitted, namely, that of having been

shortly before torn from their natural habitats, packed in cases, conveyed thonsands of miles, and introduced

into our plant-houses without a living root or leaf to support them; while our cultivators are, from want of

experience, either in total or partial ignorance of the best mode of treatment.
‘The price and size of the work, together with the style of execution, will continue to be the same as

in this Second Series.

ROBERT WARNER.
8, Crescent, Cripplegate, London

April, 1875.

CONTENTS.

ANGULOA ROKER To MASDEVALLtA موه‎ “a
BATENANSIA Bunt 85 ,ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRA: WARNER. 25
: OXTILEYA DOWIANA 27 ODONTOGLOSSUN 0 s
careva BXONIENSIS 36 | ODONTOGLOSSUM PULORELLUM 5
camera اههد‎ 22. | ODONTOGLOSSUN nEICHENUEDU »
crisis navis 14. | -ODONTOGLOSSUM وس‎ 3
CYPRIPEDIUAM cavparvat 1 |, ODONTOGLOSSUM WARNERIANUM 2
CYPRIPEDIUA SUPERBIENS a» | ONCIDICA. هه‎ ;
GYPRIPEDIUM. VENUSTUM SPECTABILE همه‎ craspuar 1
CYPRIPEDIUA VILLOSUM s» | ONCIDICM araonaxenuat 0
DENDRODIOM BIGIMBUN 3 | ONCIDIUE YARICOSUM ROGERS a
DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM 11 | PHALÆNOPSIS GRANDIFLORA AUREA
DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUS OCULATUN و‎ | PHALÆNOPSIS INTERMEDIA PORTEL 2
DENDROBIUM JENKINSIE as | PHALANOPSIS rown 0
DENDROBIUM LITULPLORUM و‎ | RENANTIERA COCOINEA c
ANCEPS DAWSON: 34 | BACCOLADIUX GUTTATUM HOLFORDHNUM . 18

LUELIA. CRISPA PURPUREA o | SOHONBURGKIA UNDULATA 4
LAELIA ORISPILARIA. و‎ | NANDA Lown o
LELIA ELEGANS WOLSTENHOLMIÆ 29 | NANDA TRICOLOR WARNERI 8

LIA PUMILA E

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Prare 1

CYPRIPEDIUM CAUDATUM

or Reichenbach regards this remarkable plant, with some oth of La

^s-Slipper
mus distinct from Cyr

o calls Seeuipedinm, a

wishes by its havi

havin‏ از

the Andes

America, and was met with by Hartweg in
۱ mar of the most curious of Orchids, and from this cause, together

with its rem: ably created a greater sensation than an of it

tion of W. Marshall, Esq of Enfield,

ws, and is much the finest we have ever witne
one to which we now refer is certainly ih

ike peta
ordinary part of the plant. When fully de

pod these often reach to the length of e
they complete this remarkab

nd the leaves being in consequence liable to rot. o Europe should he

particular ما‎ send it at a proper time, and in a dry state. Tt is mu that we do not receive
it in a better condition, as every orchid-grower is desirous of havin

flower-seapes are produced after the growth is completed,

from twelve to eighteen inches, two and three
arked with brown, the tails of the

tips. The lip is of a reddish-brown, with the basal pa

yellow, beautifully s

The plant blooms during the months of April and May, and lasts in perfec
flowers are kept from damp

C. 701 require anaged in the same way

‘The principal point in their c

nount of heat at all times, as, with the exo i
day rowths beginning to appear just after the blooming season. Mr. Mar
ant was nd kept in the East India house, and we never better heal

The best of one part of turfy losa an
and a little moss should be laid on the top of the erocks to

well intermixed, have good drainage
ıt moisture is most pernic plants of this class, which are more injured by
than from any other sin ‘This species does not require a large pot, as it roots sparingly
Tt is necessary to keep it near the protect it from the scorching rays of the sun, which would
+ and leave the plant in a very precarious condition

‘The present subject is not liable to attack

in good health, it is folly to expect success in its cultivation

of insects, if kept in health, Iti propagated by division, so managed as to secure a young growth with an
old one behind it. ‘This division should take place when the plant is starting into growth, and the d

portions should be afterwards potted firmly, using the same materials as those recommended abo

polling, place it in the shade, and do not give too much water until it begins to make fresh roo

Prare IL

PHALAENOPSIS INTERMEDIA ۰

à stemloss epiphyte, p z a few br acute leaves, and an arching raceme of handsomely coloured
0 The sepals are oblong and spreading, and, as well as the broader rhomboid petals, are white, and
oo at the base, as in the type. ‘The lip is ich ros, three-lobe the lateral lobes erect, bluntly wed

aurons, vr. Pours, Reichenbach fil, Botanische Zeitung, xxi. 135.

Of Phalenopsis intermedia itself, the P. Lobbi of some gardens, Dr. Lindley has remark

not improbable that this beautiful plant is a natural mule between P. amabilis and P. rosca. It agree

petals, and in the peculiar form of the mi of the lip.” ‘The variety now figured, a plant, as our

of no inconsiderable beauty, was found by M. Porte during his residence in the Philippines

cies of Phalanopsis are among the finest of Orchids, and that which we now figure is one of

he most beautiful and distinct, Our drawing was taken from a fine example in our own collection, which

bloomed for the first time three years since, and now continuing in blossom for several

months in succession, notwithsta ws vigorously, and has even produced on the old

Nower-stem a young plant, which has a good fower-spike. This Phalenopsis is quite distinctas regards its

flower, but the growth and foliage are very much like those of P. grandiflora. a seems to be

intermediate between the two, The upper surface of the leaf is of a light-green, while the under side is
more like amabilis. "This plant, the only one he saw in bloom, was collected by M. Porte five years since
Te wa

by the side of the beautiful P. Sohitleriona, and was sent home in the same box together

with P. amabilie and P. rosea. We suspect, from its appearance, that it must be a mule between amabilis

and rosea. Our specimen was supposed to be the only plant in the country, but last year Mr. Tees,
gardener to the Earl of Haddington, a

nningham, flowered one which had been purchased as amabilis,

and was imported with the plants above mentioned. This latter plant produced leaves twelve inches in

and bore three branching spikes. It was grown upon a large block of wood standing eighteen

the pot in which it was plunged—a capital plan, for the roots cling to the wood i
natural for them to do. Often when the plants are potted the roots rot away, and the utmost care is then
necessary to prevent the plant from dying. We find the safest plan, if the moss becomes decayed, is to.
lake it entirely away, and cut of all the decayed roots, which encourages the plant to make fresh ones,

1

sis are lost through bad culivation,—perhaps more than of any

at many plants of Phalen

genus of Orchids. ‘The reason is, that they get too much water and hent, which causes them to push away
too luxuriantly, and as a consequence they become sappy, and cannot endure changes of temperature to
which they may be exposed. Tn this condition they get the spot, and if this happens, they seldom or never

of their making fresh lem

keep the plant

ree from spot, Another point in obtaining st

ble. "They should be put about two feet f

well exposed to ligh if nearer, they are

We have cultivated them, and have found them to succeed well in various ways. Firstly, we grew

hem upon large blocks of wood, plunged in a pot, in the sume way as ne with Mr. Lee’s plant

In this manner we have had from sixty to one hundred flowers upon one plant of P. grandifora, which
continued to have about the same number for six years in succession. We mention this merely to show

that the plants can be grown well in this w
Secondly, we have grown them well in pots with moss and erocks, suspended from the roof. ‘This plan
can be scen carried out in our houses at Broomfield, where every year tho plants are loaded with flowers,

metimes fifty in bloom at one time, and not a spot on the leaves. ‘They thrive equally well in baskets

cay. They

suspended from the roof, but it is necessary to replenish the moss as soon as it commences to

on blocks suspended from the roof, but they then require more attention as to the applica

also thrive wall
erent species, is in winter 65

suitable for the d
higher. We always avoid too much fire heat in

are nearly always growing

tion of moisture temperature we find the mos

nig ng in the daytime a fow degrees

winter. The moss should be kept just moist; and in summer, as the plan

ke a moderately liberal supply, but the water should always be warmer than the temperature

they will
y plenty of warm fresh air, and thus keeping up a

the house. Another point of much importance is givi
constant motion in the atmosphere of the ho
Phalaenopsis are propagated by leaving the old flower-stems, which often produce young plants, ‘These

should be left on until well rooted, and then cut of, and treated as recommended above.

Piare 1

DENDROBIUM LITUIFLORU?

An epiphyte, with slender, pendulous, reedy stems, furnished with oblongelane

lato lenses, and bearing showy

her, from the joints of the stems, The sepals are

The lip ise

twice the width

volute, incurved and cornctabaped, pale-rose with a deep violet eye, the limb

Desinonox مہ‎ Lindley, Gardeners Chronicle, 185,

Desosonnox. Haymunvaxın, Reichenbach fil

According to Professor Reichenbach, who named this handsome plant D. ZZanburyamun about the same
time that Dr. Lindley published it under the name abo

itis of Bast Indian origin, Dr. Lindley

call it “a fine species, with the habit of D. transparent, but handsomer, the s ; rosy line
flowers being four or five inches across, and the cornet-shaped lip deep violet everywhere, except a border

round the expanded part

No doubt it is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the mo

aceful of Deudrobinms. There are
several varieties of this

paler in colour than that we have represented, which is

ne of the best wo have met with. Tt is of deci-

uous habit, losing its leaves be

fore it shows flower. Several other species resemble it in its mode of growth,

so that it is difficult to distinguish them except when in bloom; then, hover

it cannot be mistaken,

mono bat D. nobile approach it in appearance, and that as regards its growth is very different. The species
is extremely rare in cultivation, but few examples having been imported

Dendrobium lituiforum produces stems from two to three fect in le

igh, and is of a pendent habit, and

furnished with light-green foliage. "The flowers are large, and proceed from the si

sepals and petals of a dark-purple colour; the lip white, ed

with purple. t blooms in March and April,
and lasts for about a fortnight or three weeks

We find it to

attention as regards watering ; but if it is ne

o well either on a block or in a basket. When grown in the latter way, it require e

very apt to dwindle away, and does not long exist

is the case with many Dendrobiums, especially
those of pendent habit. They are subject to red spider and thrips, and if allowed to remain in a dry
with them, and cannot be

to keep the plants in health, is

ade to thrive. The way to check these pests, and

will suffice, only just enough being given to keep the bulbs plump. When the plant shows flower it

its leaves, m, to induce the blooms to come finer, more water may be given; if the plant is allowed
to shrivel, the blossoms will be small

We find sphagnum moss and crocks the most suitable material for growing this plant, which should be
sus in a basket or pot. If grown on a block, it must be watered twice:

placed as much in the light as possible. A fim
plant in the beautiful collection of W. E. Paterson, Esq., of Partick Till, Gl

fine plant for exhibit

they will bo

until their growth is completed, and then be taken off

Piare IV.

DA LOWII.

MA

A statly-habited ca nyt, with thick seandent

nip ms, furished with numerous obliquely-ohtus, strap-

lary spikes of showy dimorphous flowers, the two basil ones being quite dissimilar from the rest. ‘The

ar blotches of reddish-brown, but in the two basal flowers they are blunter and mo
wny-yellow With crimson dote "The lip is smaller, ovate, and very fleshy, unguiculate, scent, and

homed near the point, and furnished with five Tamell on the disk.

Vasoa Lowi, Lindley, Gardeners Chronicle, 1847, 239; Id. Folia Orchidacea, art. Vanda, 2 Zlustration Horti
b4, 7:

anita Lowi, Reichenbach fil, Xenia Orehidneen, t. 89. Botanical Magazine, 1864, t

The opinion seen:

be gaining ground that this species sho
by Dr.
overlooked by Dr. Lindley himself, since he observes th
e lip

synonym of Renanthera. Since, however, with this knowledge

be removed from the genus Vanda,

under which it was ori

lley, and transferred to Zenantkera. The affinity it bears

socially in the minute

s ung near the point, and two-homed there, this

mus Arachnanthe"—its

reat and lamented orchidologist

dvisedly refrained from disturbing the generic posi

tion to which the species had been originally assigned, and indeed held an opinion adverse to its removal from

for the present, at east, retain the original name,

is most ext ingly rare Orchid is a native of Borneo, where it grows in the
forests, on high trees in very humid places, and whence it was originally sent by Mr. Hugh Low, after

whom it is named. It is very distinct in gn

l from any other species of Yanda yet known, and is easily

distinguished by its dark-green foliage, thick fleshy ro

Which attain from six to twelve feet in length. Our figure was taken from a very fine plant im the
Broomfield collection
The most remarkable feature of the plant is the dimorphism of the lowers—that is, the producti

two kinds of flowers on the same spike. "Ilis curious phenomenon is no

scidental, since the pair of dis-

similar flowers is met with at th

Reichenbach, who has carefully examined fresh specimens, finds that in ms the

organs are equally perfect. Indeed, in a letter from this learned botanist, alluding to our

om this point, in which he points out that the same facts had been observed by Mr. Kramer, th
o Madame Yeniseh, of F

tbeck Park, near Hamburg, it is remarked, that “the basilar lowers fertilized

by themselves, the others by themselves, the basilar by the others, and the others by the baslar—all gave
ripe fruits, so that there is no sexual difference in the bwo kinds of flower

a is a shy blooming plant, and generally grows four or five feet in height before comm:
o flower. We have, however, see examples in blo d Mr. Veitch exhibited one in that con

dition, about two fect in height, several

years since. ‘The noble specimen in the collection of S, Rucker
Esq, of Wandsworth, bears numerous remarkably fine lower-pikes, and has been growing for several year
in the same house, where it is kept at the entrance, on account of its noble and tropical appearance. It

by Messrs. Low and Co, several years sin

is country, Mor

M eet tuc O Gime oca taken off thone m cultiyoticn rem ما‎ tie: s Low describes the
1 anging from them an

libin s o to a great height, the enorm gi
g a very grand appearani has lately sent home many mo s, but unfortunately not
oue has survived; the leaves indeed have been green when the cases were but as soon as exposed
the air they h n off, Mr L fortunate enough to g lanis to m

ut we believe all subsequent atte flus

Tanta I با‎ growin 1 fect high. Tt throws out thick fleshy roots, and
k-gre m length, these growing on opposite sides of the stem g

ow. "The plant f India
which indeed continues nearly all the
yell with the other species of Fanda, such
August, and September, the flowers con

pr ot in any way be injured, as the p impatient of bei
isturbed. Tho best giving it fresh moss, is to pull the old out first, and then, having
seen that the drainage is for on this greatly depends its successful. growth—to replace it with fres
sphagnum: Bad drainage is very injurious, and if a plant has not good rc annot 0
caro should be taken, on the other hand, not to let it shrivel by keeping it dry, for if this i

happen, there is litle hope ofits recovery, and even if it docs recover it will take a long tim "

the case, the moss should always be kept moist, even when the plant is not grow
vigorous growth a more abundant supply of water must be given. We have sometimes seen this plant
affected by the disease called spotting, This frequently m bruising the leaves, which hap

ja should always be most carefully performed, not only in the case of this

all thick, fleshy-leaved Orchids, The spot in Orchids is often caused by the rough treatment th
This plant is not particularly subject to the attacks of insects. Sometime on it, bu
i may be kept under by cleansing with water, which is to be used of the same temperature as th

Phare V.

ONCIDIUM CHRYSOTHYRSUS.

A showy epiphy ved psendobulbs, which at length become ribbed; oblongae

Oca تسج محتست‎ Reichenbach fi. MS.

‘The Oncidium family forms a very large group of Orchids, which are extremely

showy and free-flovering, and, we may mongst

Port Ale

on 1 at some collector may find it, and send

although. now a very rare plant, should find a place in every collection as‏ ری

soon as a pl ply can be introduced, It is much to be regretted that the of O

present so little generally cultivated, for they undoubte ne of the most showy of Orc

colours presented by o
ful for
5 these, when int

genera, while their os render them, in man

in perfection, both on the plant and when eut and placed in water. A few years

think more of the smaller kinds of rare Orel

Oncidiums o

appear f which, however, few are really fit sub

for our large exhibitions. "These lan

encouraged in order to make up a

grand showy and effective; moreover, when they are grown into

tin he

s being of a li

rom the side of the pseudobulb, As to the

he plant continues in bloom for several weeks.

Prare VI

PILABIA

LALIA CRIS

An and. distinct iphyte, with short pyriform psendobulbs, surmounted by a single ligul
hulate b The sepals are oblong, ligul o and
well as the euneate-obl f am amethystpurple colour, The lip is atthe base, the
Tater ل‎ together in a semiovate form, the middle lobe o te, erenulately Jobulat, undulate
bent ah wards; it is white in the centre, bears three erenulate carinas ou the median line, und
Jas the lateral 0
Leu eustitama, 4. Richard Herb, a to Reichenbae

Leu Luvuerasa, of Engl

Burma cusan, ماما‎

‘This pretty plant has been reported as an inhabitant of Mexico, but there seems to be some doubt as

to its native country, and itis chiefly known as a cultivated species. It is one of the prettiest and most

distinct species of its family. The accompanying Plate was taken from a specimen in our posse
which has flowered successively for the last twenty years, and was formerly in the t
Mrs. Lawrence. It is very distinct, both as regards the colour of the bulbs and of the foliage; thong!
he general habit resembles that of 7 o which it is allied, This is the only plant we know o
with the exception of the younger ones which have been taken from it. Fortunately it is one of the most
easy to propagate among the Laelias, which are for the most part impatient of being divided; and bei
lso a frce-fo it to be generally cultivated, for it requires but little room, an
furnishes flowers of one of the most pleas to be found amongst the whole race of Or

Lelia crispilabia is of a compact habit of growth, and has evergreen fol a Tight-green colour
Tt produces on op of cach bulb, and grows about a foot in height. "The flower-spikes لہ‎
proccel from the top of the bulb, issuing from a sheath; 0 to about a foot in length, and bear
several flowers of a rich amethyst or purple-lilac colour. "The plant continues in bloom for several we
It moreover makes a good exhibition plant, being a capital one to travel, on g a small stick to

We find the most suitable temperature for this species to be that of the Cattle nd th
treatment should be me as that given to other Laeli Lawrence grew it on a block of wood fo
several years, but afterwards removed it into a pot, which was found much more suitable for it. Since we
have had it we have always grown it in a pot, and have found it to succ It requires good fib
peat and perfect drainage, the pot being half filled latter, this covered by a layer of sphagnum
moss or rough peat, with the fine parts shaken f led up with the fibrous p
a litle sphagnum-moss and a few sm in order to keep the peat open. When the soil is th
prepared, place the plant on the top, taking care to peg it down firmly, which will induce it to root the
more freely, and thus to grow m ly. The most suitable time to pot the plant is just as it com-
mences growing. If the change is made at that time, it gets sooner established than if p
rest, for in the latter case the bulbs often shrivel, and when this h icy seldom recov
placing th a block, with plenty of water, sometim ai

T s while growing require plenty of water, and must never b 1 to become dry. Aft
the growth is completed, they should have just enou to keep in a plum ion. The

hrive best when placed as near the glass as possible, in order that the growth may be well matured, which

js a most important consideration among Orchids y ich light as possible so that

they do not become scorched by the sun's raya, Tt ight weather always to shade the
tious with canvas by means of a roller, but the shading must only be used while the sun is powerf

These plant are propagated by dividing the pseudobulbs, leaving one of two old ones at the back of
the leading bulb. ‘The potting is best done when the plants ar starting into growth, as they then at once
make fresh roots, and soon get established. Pot them in the same material as recommended above, bearing
in mind to keep them in the shade, and, by careful attention, to secure immunity from attacks of insects.

"The white scale is sometimes a formidable enemy, if allowed to remain on the plants.

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Br icit
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Piare 1

PHAL/ENOPSIS GRANDIFLORA AUREA

marked highly eolon

vured variety of Ph. grandiflora, distinguishable by the conspicuous deep oran

jich pervades the front the lip, and is especially apparent on the anterior side of the late
and on th the petals are al

ally broad and rounded, forming a full and almost circular owe

Pusaesorsts orasprstora Acn, of Gardens; Proceedings of the Royal Horticultural Society, iv. 13:

‘The plant from which our figure of this very beautiful variety of Phalenopsis was prepared, was

flowered by Mr. B. S. Williams, of the Victoria Nursery, Holloway, and was exhibited by him in 1864,

one of the great Flower Shows of the
certificate. A beautifully

Regents Park exhibitions.

Royal Horticultural Society, on which occasion it reccived a first-ck

own specimen of the same was also awarded a first prize at one of the

Phalaenopsis grandiflora is certainly one of the most beautiful amongst Orchids, as it is also one of the

cultivators, but like most other Orchids it varies in character, The one we now

the finest that wo have met with, whe

represe ier we consider the shape or arrangement of the flowers,

on the upper part of the ip. "This plant was imported from Borneo a few y

since al od. forms have bloo

g with several hundred other plants of. Phalenopsie but though many

amongst them, this is so far decidedly th

y distinguished from that

best. The Bornean Phatenopsis is ea

which comes from Java, by its yellowish-green flower-stem.

‘There aro fino varieties of the Javanese P. gra

fora, which, as a rule, bears larger flowers and longer spikes than the Bornean forms; but both should be

extensively cultivated. By having a few plants of each, this queen of Orchids may be had in flower all th

year round, as each spike will continue blooming for a very long time. At
had nearly 900 expanded bloc

roomfield we have this year

perfect at one time, and might easily have had more, if the ladies had re

frained from cutting so many to make presents, "Tho tinted blooms of P. Sohilleriana mixed with the several

white kinds, and with Z, intermedia Portei, had a charming effect. Phalenopsids

and they, moreover, last for a len,

h of time in water; while, for exhibition purposes, they are great ac-

sitions, their spikes of ivory-like flowers hanging

‘gracefully among other plants,

We quite agree wit
Orchids.

the remark of the late Dr. Ti

y, that * Phalenopses are the grandest of all

This remark was made at the period of the Chiswick Shows, when examples were sho

n with from
a result which may easily be realized by retaining the old flowerspike
pikes to develope. When

plants ib is a great

0 to 100 flowers upon one p

and allowing them to branch ont, and by also allowing strong young flowe

et healthy leaves; and this may be done by

the plants are in vigor

our Orchid h

f, and tool
ms injurious to all Phal

in caso of some urgent necessity. It is a far better plan to take a

Our present subject will thrive well under the g

ce Plate T. of the

recommended for P. inte
growing plant with light-green foliage, and large whi

xt of the lip be for several week:

beauty for several months.

g of a deep orange-yellow
ems of P. grandiflora usually extend frou

flowers, the uppe
i The flower

so feet; but we once saw one of icy upwards of four feet in 1
gation is effected by means ants which appear upon the slower
not very frequently produced, but when they a should be taken off as soon as they have th
the warmest part of the being well sh

A. Turner, Esq, of Manchest

nd be place
rom the sun, and kept moist at the roots. Mx. Toll gardener to J
1 old flower-stems in this manner

1 many plants fro

Phalenopsids are subj

+ to insects, especially the black
f the leaf; its attacks become very troubl are not well guarded
n with clean water; for i
We sometimes find the red thrip in the

is the most effectual remedy

appears on the under part

The plants should be frequently

iguinst
increase they will soon destroy the plant, or injure its growth
heart of the plants, where it soon damages the young leaves. Tobacco wate
but if used too strong it also will be very liable to injure the leaves

UMS 3

iopum

narobrum bi

1 سط

DENDROBIUM BIGIBBUM.

The racemes are erect, produced from

2, of which th
(ana et کہ مل‎ Û
darkest,
ds and

sepals are

long and acute, produced into

breadth of the sepals; and the lip is moveable, threc-lobed, with rounded

hile, towards the base which is gibbous, are three raised notched lines ore

the gibbous base of the lip, together produce a kind of double chin to the lower

Disonontw sc, Lindley, Parton's Flower Garden, iii. 25, 8 temati

ibed in 1852 by Dr. Lindley, from weak specimens which flowered with the

is a native of the north-west, or tropical coast of New Holland; and though somewhat

ry distinct in appearance, and rather attractive, not only on account of the charm-

md their spreading directi

able resemblance in outline to those of a Phalenopsis. Dr. Lindley points ou

the species is Dotanically nearly al

D. Kingianum and D. elongatum, but, he adds, it is much‏ و

pe wan akan from a plant in tha ER‏ مسا

Our plate of 4

of Wandsworth, à

hich it has been cultivated for a number of years, being noted as one of the rarest

Orchids it includes, There are two or three varieties in this collection, the one ured being the

Dendrobiwma decidedly rank am beautiful members of the Orchid family, being free-
flowering as well as showy, and affording olow. They are, many of them, large-growing as
well as graceful in habit, and all the m by having a good collection of them, the Orchid-
house may be kept gay all the year round. "hoy are, moreover, very accommodating, for, after they have

them there until they are required for blooming, when, of course, they should be returned to a warm.

Dendrobium bigibbum is am upright-growing evergreen plant of dwarfish habit, with Tig

It generally flowers from the side of the stem, but sometimes from the top; and on the old

aro often nine inches in le Tt sometimes produces flower-spikes from the same bulls

frequently occur in this class of plants, thou

wer from two- and three-year-old b

it will thrive either in a basket or in a pot. Mr. Pilcher, who has charge of Mr. Rucker's

that it succoeds well in the same house

I ho grows Callleyas and Lelie, th

water during the gı order to ke lants in a healthy condition, it is found requi-

d to get into a shrivelled stat

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Insect depredators must always be kept under. Sometimes the thrips will

is very injurious to their health, and decidedly a disfigurement to their ap
is effected very slowly, especially as the plant does not increase its size very
division, leaving one or two old bulbs at the back of tho leading growth. The

potted in peat and moss, and be kept moist until they are established

Prare IX.

LALIA CRISPA ۸

the type by its vigorous habit, and its large and b

fine variety of Lati crisp, distinguished fr

108 petals tinted with purple, and the lip

tifully-coloured flowers, which are broader in all the parts,

Lansa cmsra سس8‎ R W

Tora. enters ronem, Reichenbach fl, Xenia Orohidacea ii; 52.

lens by its old name of Cattleya

arly known in

The type of this Beautiful plant is more fami

now been found to belo

crispa; but it oup—a rather artificial one it must be allowed —

to which the name of Ladia has been applied. It represer sp of fine showy plants affording nume-

fone now figured is amongst the most beautiful. “That which is named superbe is also particularly fine, and

shove the foliage; it is easily distin-

produces in great abundance, lange bold flowers, which stand well

habit of growth, its light-green bulbs, and its dark-tinted foliage. Cul

guished from the rest by
and the

tivators should be careful in purchasing this species, for some of the varieties are shy in blooming

flowers when produced are comparatively small; but there is nothing more charming than some of the

» finely with the white of the other parts of the

best varieties, the rich colouring of the lip contrast

flower. They are of free-growing habit, and make excellent decorative as well as exhibition plu

July and August, when other Orchid flowers are becoming scarce; moreover they are not at all expensive

Itivators, small and lar

plants, so that most

leaf at the top of the stem, which leaf

Lelia erispa grows about two fect high, and bears a sin

of a dark-green colour. ‘The flowers are produced from a sheath in July and Aug

completed, the sepals and petals being of a pure

with white. ‘The stem produe

t the delicate white of the

in perfection, provided they are not syringed, which is apt t

with a moderate amount of heat and

This fine Laie to be grown in the Cattleya-ho

months. Tn winter great care is

re, for this might cause them to rot, w

wth would become weak. We have found

ld probably stop the blooming of the plants, us the

as the habit is strong and robust

the compost, and the pot should be half filled with erocks, in order to secure good drainage,—a thin layer

moss and rou in filed with the material recom-

be the best for all Zeelias and م۷۸۵۵‎ requiring

potting we have always followed, and we have found it

wing kinds thrive best on blocks, or in small pans or baskets suspended.

gardener to T. Dawson, Esq

from the roof. We have seen them grown very successfully by Mr. An

of Meadow Bank, in a kind of basket made of pottery ware, which suits the purpose well; and this mode of

of the stems; and unless these points are realized, we cannot expect good flowers
With insect enemies constant warfare should be waged. The white
affects ys growth, but it may be kept under by frequent springing with el
gation is effected by division at the time when the stems are just starting to

ould be Kept at the back of the young one. "Ihe divisions should be potted in the material

above, and they must be Kept moist (not wet), and in a moist atmosphere, until well rooted,
They should never be allowed to shrivel, as Leclins are difficult to bring back int y condition when
once they go wrong.
Good healthy robust roots are essential to the successful growth
cepted. Therefore, as some kinds of peat soil become conve
conse of one or two years at the furthest, and as when in this s inimical to a healthy root condition,
it is most desirable not to allow more than two years to elapse, without renewing the process of

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Prare X.

ANGULOA RUCKERL

A stove epiphyte of bold and striking habit, with 1m
luy goblet shaped flowers, growing singly on radical pedun
The sepals are subrotund and

s, which are furnished with

sting
ذل‎ petals, are convent in

inflated. bra

al
me, which is Dilabiatly Funnel-shaped and hairy, one of the lab
the column is ent

culate, and, with the blunt
Aobular form. ‘The lip is threclobed in front, its lateral

and equalling the intermediat

the other three

Hindley, Botanical Register, 1846, t. 41‏ میا محمد

Auguloa Ruckeri, observes Dr. Lindley, is immediately recognized by its flowers having deep crimson

spots on a yellow groun

and a deep crimson lip. Tt is a native of Columbia, and is a very ornamental

species, There is a variety, called sangnine, with the flowers of a deep rich blood

our; and another,
called purpurea, with the flowers purple. ‘They are a

desirable for the cultivator, Our draw-

ing gives an excellent representation of the typical plant

which was first flowered in the fine collection of
S. Rucker,

age after whom it is named. The plant is rare, there being but few good specimens in culti

he Anguloas are ma

Aly alike in their habit of growth. ‘They have thick bulbs, and flag-shaped leaves

y inches in length, and they generally l

Mhe flowers are large and very curious; the inner part or lip is moveable, and he

when required for

exhibition, this part should be secured by a piece of w

ding or thin paper,

the flower, to pre
vent its moving, in order that it may be carried in safety. They produce their flowers along with the young

growth from the side of the bulb. ‘They make fin ion plants on account of their large and showy

flowers, and their distinctness from other Orchids. "They resemble Zgenafes more than any other of their

allies, in

o far as regards the shape of the bulbs

they have been imported and sold as Zycustes,
though an experienced
Although the leaves of Anguloa Ruckeri aro from eighteen to thirty inches in Je

above, yet from their half-iro

rower would detect the diffe

a habit the plants seldom stand more than from a fo

in height. The bulbs are fr

and the leaves, which are of a light green colour,

are from four to six inches in width, "The young growths are produced in the early spring from the si

neers proceed from each side of the young growth; they are of lege size, and nearly of

the shape of a tulip, and the sepals and petals are of a rich brownish-orangi

slour, spotted with dark
brown, while the

Tt is capital exhibition ne to carry if well tied, each flower being fastened to a small

stick, but the stick must not touch the flower, as, being remarkably fleshy, it will most probably bruise it

iz better understood than it was a few years
back. "hey were formerly grow

heat, and with too litle water. We now find the c

rest from the time their growth is completed, until the time of

„starting them to
Never allow them to

hrivel they have, however, thick fleshy bu therefore

is peat, with a little live s

themselves grow to a lange size. During their growing season they must have a good supply of water, as

The best plant we have seen exhibited was grown in a cool house with Zyeaste Skinner, cto; and we

temperature must range in winter from 45° to 50°, and during the summer from 60° to SO”, with
hould have all

mally to Keep off dampness. In dull weather the plants

ake their growth perfect,

the light possible t
from the rays of the sun.

ften caused by too

We have scen the bulbs rot in the winter under certain treatment, this evil bein

much dampness. When it occurs, eut the decayed parts away, and dry the wound with sulphur or lim

mulate, or they will damage the young growth. The

ould not be allowed to acou-

plants are subject to insects, such as thrips and green fly, which

in cleansing them that they are not bru

‘The plants are propagated by dividing the bulbs just as they begi

recommended for established plants. After dividi

generally break well; they require the same soil as

hem, keep them at the warmest end of the house, with plenty of moisture to prevent them from shrivell

but avoid, if possible, everything that might be liable to damage the young grow!

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Puare XI

DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM

A enti der articulated striate stems, of depend

the older be sters from the The leaves are lineartanceolae, _

Dranaceous, and acuminate. The fower wded, and beautifully coloured the sepals lanceolate, enti

vate and ciliated ; and the lip cucul

Tate, broadly cordate and plumosely fringed, tipped like the petals with ros purple, and marked inside with

two la ep orangecoloured spots. "The spur of the flower is very short

om, Magazine of Gardening and Botany, vii. 69, Botanical Magazine, t: 4429. Flore

Desmomex Devoxiaxun, Pe
tem

Desoromox retener, بم‎ Devostastn, Reichenbach fl, Walpere Annales Botanices Systematicn, v

lovely Dendrobe was found by Mr. Gibson among the Khasya hills, where it was met with

hanging from trees in very dense woods, at about 4500 feet above the sen. “From its disagrocably rigid

habit in the wild state, and th

y (races rs to determine its characte, its introduction

a matter of question, Fortunately, specimens of it were secured in order to learn what its blossoms

would prove; and the event has shown that no dependence can be placed on habitude, as the flowers are

X the n Tt was first f

Ch

st beautiful of which Dendrobiums cam bo wered in this country at

‚worth, in 1840.
‘The Den

mily is one of the largest amongst really good Orchids, an

may confidently add

that D. Deconianum is one of the finest of them all. When well g
beautiful of all Orchid

producing a charming effect. Our Plate was taken f

own, it is indeed one of the most

ikes of flowers, al

s slender, graceful habit of growth, and its gano

m a plant in our own collection, where it has flowered
finely. Tt is a well-known species, but notwithstanding the quantity imported, we seldom meet with well
grown plants

me cultivators do not appear to succeed well with it, the reason of which is that they do.

not treat it properly. We have seen it grown well in some col where

Fastndia House, with plenty of water during the growing season, and syrin a day, in onder to

Keep away the red spider, which is the most powerful enemy it has

The Dendrobium Deconianım is distinct from other Dendro owth as well as in Blossom. It is

deciduous, losing its leaves after it

growth is completed; and when the bulbs are well ripened, a good

return of lovely flower

form of its flowers such variations as do m. 11 grown

only,

ng upon how it

our mostly depe
the flowers will be larger and better coloured, and when this is the case it makes one of the finest exhibition
we have. When

pended in a basket it has a charming effect, especially if hung amongst ferns or

plants, for when in bloom the plant is itself devoid of leaves. By having several plants, they may

De had in perfection from the beginning of May until the end of June. ‘This Dex

olim is of a pendulous

habit, the stems growing to the length of four feet, and. the blossoms being produced for nearly their whole

n diameter; they appear in May and June, and continue for about a

fortnight in perfection

‘This plant grows naturally in situations where it is protected from the burn ul where it is

sustained by the heavy dews. There is a grow

NESS

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4 suspended from the roof, "The best material

this should be applied over the leave

well as to the roots hjec to red spider, which, if allowed to accumulate, will cause the foliage to

turn yellow and falloff and will thus injure the growth, We have never seen this Dendrobe grown better

, and this is the only way in

which it can be grown to perfection, When the planis are at rest, endeavour to keep the bulbs plump.
One other important point in. the management of this plant is, never to allow any bad, decayed material
o remain about it, or it will not thrive, yos must bo fresi—if gı ill the better; it tells when the
ant is dry, and, by using green moss, the moisture rises from it among:

x. Wire-baskets should be used, for wooden ones rot

mend good plants. If the old bulbs are cutoff, they will often make young growth

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Piare XIL

CYPRIPEDIUM SUPERBIENS.

mial, stemless, with oblo

surface with alternating patches of ight and dark green, ‘The lange flowers are solitary on the pedund
Which vise directly from the root, and bear imet at the ba diy. o dorsi dep 1 ovat
neni, the lower one much smaller, and both white, streaked with green lines "The pètals are oblong-ligulat
Munt, white with green lines, spotted thickly with dark purple spots, and fringed with purple hairs The
pou of the lip is elongated, with the margin indexed towards the back, and strongly warte; it is of a livid
town ne becoming purple in front. “The stam al white, toscas w E
and ti

Correr رل‎ Bonplandia, 1865, 6 ic 9. t 10

This very handsome species of Lady's-slipper is closely related to C. Barham, purpuratun and امه‎

but differs in the elongated deflexed petals, and in the structure of the barren stamen (staminade), which
has an introrse tooth on each side towards the front, the intermediate part retuse, with an exserted
It is a native of Java and Assam, and is a beautiful sp ct from all others; indeed it may be

ded as the best of the dardafrw group. Tt is of free growth and good habit, and has finely variegated

foliage, so that when out of bloom it has a fine appearance. The name saperliens is most appropriate, it

being perhaps the most beautiful of the genus. ‘The plant continues for a considerable time in bloom,

which makes it more valuable, whether for home d or for exhibition. It is an excellent

travel, when properly packed, with a stick placed to each fl

touch, lest it should bruise i, Cgpripedinme have been exhibited for tw tlis in succession at

bb

various shows, and we have never fou

them to get injured unless they have been accidentally

Those of the سممامڈ‎ section continue in bloom equally long; while those of other classes such as
caudatum, Stonei, ال‎ etc, last about five or six weeks, if the flowers are kept dry, and not in too
high a temperature,

Copripediun superbiens is as yet a rare plant, There are but few fine specimens in the country, and

when sold they fetch a high prices but small plants can be purchased at à mod

who desires cam obtain it. "The foliage grows from about six to ten inches in height, and is most

beautifully vari

ated. Tt produces its flowers from the centre of the growth, after it is completed, in spri

The flowers are large, and grow

y on scapes about a foo s during June and July,

continuing a considerable time in perfection; after this it recommenees to grow

‘The plant is of easy culture, but requires great attention, havin To compensat

for this, more moisture i pears to be alwa its growth,

the flowers begin to for the next

We it in the Bast-India I1

ble; and as all the Cypripedioms

as near the light as p

require the same treatment, we keep them together, We have

The princip

wn them with Catflegas, und found the

tended to, are the temperature, and the material they are grown in

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plant soon gets out of health. We prefer to give the plants fresh soil every year; an

be good, a little fresh on the surface is of great benefit, and induces new roots, ‘The plants require a rather
large pot, as they root freely. A few pieces of charcoal mixed with the soil will be found beneficial.
These plants are p division. The new grow ken off alter

ficiently, and are potted separately. "The best tim

for di the plants begin to gro

and to these among others; they should consequently be well sought
dium attacked by the small red h often cols away

cart er am excellent mi They must never
be allowed to have any rest but must be got rid of, for th nd if allowed to get

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XIII‏ سط

ODONTOGLOSSUM PULCHELLUM

pita pseudobulbs, beating a pair of long, linear, obliquely

A. pretty stove epiphyte with oblong, compre

۱ terminati
o; the petals obovate; and the

emarginato leaves, and producing slender, two-cdged seapes, equalling the

white flowers, The sepa

threelobed,
the apex: the lip bears at the
ath

sera moderntesiz
lateral lobes bein

Ovosroctossto مر‎ Bateman, Botanical Register, 1841, t 48. Botanical Magazine, t. 4101. Lindley,

Folin Orhidacew, art. Odontoglos bach fiL, Walpers Annales Botanices Systematic, vi 8

‘Though not comparing in grandeur or in captivating beauty with some of the species of this remarkably
ornamental genus of Orchids, Odontoglossum grande and O. Alerandre to wit, the species we now figure is

really a desirable plant for the cultivator on account of its free blooming qualities; while it is by no means

devoid ofa qu

of its ow efuln

md this together with its s for decorative purposes in a cu

state, is sure to gain for it the suffrages of many admirer. ‘The absence of showy or brilliant colours is

indeed amply e almost pellucid flowers, which,

mpensated for by the chaste and delicate purity of it

moreover, yield a most grateful perfume,
Odontoglossum. pulchellum is a

oh

a member of a genus which has al

ative of Guatemala, whence it was sent by the late lamented Mr.

G. Ure Skinner, and it appear teman, in 1841, Tt is

re been first bloomed in this country by Mr.

e been greatly admired by Orchid growers, and which has latterly

gh favour, on account of the beauty and delicacy of ¢

and from the fact that they require but little artificial heat for their successful cultivation, Collect

cordingly sought them ont eagerly in the mou ns of New Grenada, Peru, ele, and this has

ted in the introduction to European o ever

mented our plant

"The species now figured, being,

as just stated, a native of Guatemala, thrives best under moderately

treatment, though more heat is necessary for it than is required for those of its gayer-coloured relatives,

which come from the high regions of New Grenada.

We have had within the Inst few years, from various

to be Odontoglossum pulchellum, most

which have heen inferior varieties, and many of them utterly
worthless

recherché colle

m of Orchids, more particularly where white flowers are in reque

months, for they are admirably adapted for wreaths, or for ornamenting the hair, and when cut and mixed
with Ferns in a bouquet are exceedingly lovely.

Odontoglossum pulchellum is a graceful and compact n plant, and is furnished with

bright shinin

in shape. The leaves

eudobulbs, which are about three inches in length, and

e produced two together, from the top of the bulbs; they are narrowed at the base,

ed and of a cheerful bright green colour. "The erect flower-stem is

sod from the base of the mature
pscudobulb, and attains the height of twelve or eighteen inches, ‘The flowers are an inch and a half in

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but having the basal
roduees its lovely
۷ the year when

round,

dapted for it

1 months of winter, though,

1 amount o

by dividing

february, March, and April

able, Tt remains in full beau

yellow, dotted with «m.

growth is good fibr

requisite, but this mi
held at an

il supply of water i

heat vill b

ALAN

Piare XIV.

CHYSIS LEVIS.

mt stems, plaited leaves, and lateral many

yte, with spi

A remarkably showy stove e

‘blossomed racemes of handsome palo-eilo f ained with deep orange. The dorsal sepals are

minate, the petals are fente; and the lip is furnished with faleate

aroblong, and the lateral ones ac

Tateral o ing over the column, and a subrotund, emarginate, crisped, intermediate lobe, spott

Lindley, Botanical Register, 18 1.61. Bateman, Orehidacen of Merico and Guatemala, t. ا‎

tanices Systematic, vi. 412. T lustration Horticole, x. t. 363.

Illustration of this beautiful Orchid was taken, was
hM

"The plant from which o

ys admirably every season, and which is the only example of its k

lection, a fine specimen wh

hat we have seen in flower. The species is, without exception, the finest of the genus that has, up to

the present time, been introduced to European gardens, though all of them are worthy of general culti

sd that it should still remain so exceedingly

vation,—and it is

indeed, that even in good and extensive collections of Orchidaceous

proves to be. So uncommon is
plants, the present species is but rarely to be found,
Be

autumn months, it should be kept cool and dry until it sl

je deciduous of habit, that is, shedding its leases soon after the growth is matured in the early

ws signs of renewing its growth in the ensuing

spring; for one of the principal requirements in the suc ement of the plants of

a thorough and decided period of rest after the growing season is over.
Writing, in 1851, of Chysie aurea, and as figured in the “Botanical Magazine? t. 4570, (which, Sir

W. Hooker ob

is very nearly ali

rve dto Chysis bractescens,) Dr. Lindley remarks as follows:—“ Upon

again referring to the materials in ion, for illustrating the differences in the threo species of

wo find little to alter in what was formerly said about them, The principal ridges at the base of‏ وا
the lip of Chysis bractescens are, no doubt, downy halfway up, as Sir W. Hooker states, and they vary in‏

the lip is wholly destitute

number from five to seven, but they are much blunter than in Chysis aw

in our specimens, of the lateral liar to Chysis aurea, ‘The most material difference between

these species is, however, the great inflated bracts of Chyet bractescens, to which there is no approach in

of the latter, from which it is distinguished by a shorter

Chysis aurea, As to Chia levi, it has the braci

the two lateral of which are rudimentary. We

et rid ave not

middle lobe of the lip, and smooth

seen it alive since July, 1840.

Chysis lavis is nearly allied in habit to Chysis aurea, and, like it, produces thick, fleshy stems, upwards

of fifteen inches in length. ‘The leaves which sheathe the bulb when young, soon fill of, and leave on}

those on the top, which are from twelve to eighteen inches in length, and light-green in colour.

4 lower.

re pendulous, bearing more f

spikes are produced with the young growths, and

The

wers upon each

pals and petals are yellow and orange, while the lip is orange, blotched with scarlet or

and beautifully fringed round the ma The season of flowering is usually d of

and June, and the flowers retain their beauty for more than three weeks if the plant is kept in a cool

OEM a SE Oe

3 سس ہے — ف‎ v —ÀÀÁ—

Prare XV

PHALANOPSIS LOWI.

thick roots from a short stem, which is furnished with a few sete Heshy
ching flowerstem, supporting numerous showy v ately tinted
rory-purple lip. ‘The dorsal sepal y ovate-acute, the lateral ones oblong
t the base; and the lip is small, three lobed, as long as the lateral
X, and erested at tho baso, ft lateral lobes short, lincar, and reflexed, the middle on
1 Jian lin umn is furnished with a long probosciform rotellum.

Totanical Magazine, t 5351

bach fit, Bota

We have in Phalenopeis Zowii a very beautiful and distinct species of this queenly genus, which,
it cannot compete in point of ne members of the family already figured by us, yet for

the delicate colouring of its lowe s chaste beauty, is surpassed by no other that has hitherto bee

introduced. Our Tllustration was taken from a plant kindly furnished by the late J. A. Turner, Esq,

Manchester, in whose collection it bloomed in the autumn of 1866, This is by far the finest specimen

ts kind that has come under our noti

I. the skill acquired by the gardener, Mi

nis, ‘The example figured in the * Botanical Magazine,’ above quoted,
he first figure of this species which had been published, represents it in a much less developed condition,

and bearing only four lowers on the spike

Ir, observes Sir W. Hooker, in his remarks accompanying the Plate just a

falls short, in size and purity of white in the flowers, of the w m Phalaenopsis amabilis, it compensates

the rostellum aro very remarkabl

Tt is truly a most lovely plant, perfectly distinct from all other known species;—approaching, indeed, in the

ize of its flowers and the breadth of its petals, to the old familiar pure white spec

Phalenopsis amab

and P. grandiflora, but in its tints coming nearer to Phalenopsis ro

and. P. intermedia; while in the

form of its lip, and in the long probosciform beak of the column, itis very remarkable, and unlike anything
else which ocenrs in the genus,
We are in introduction to our of this novel and beautiful species to tle Messrs.

Low, of Clapton: and to tl حر‎ the credit of having first flowered it in this country, a circumstance

gracefully acknowledged by Reichenbach, in the naming of the plant in ho
red by the Rev. O. Parish, in Moul

cms to abound in rich, rare, and beautiful species of Oreñidacea, for

mr of Mr. Stuart

Low. It was originally disc y a region of Br

st Indian Orchids are natives of that province

this genus form none of the thick fleshy pseudobul

in which nutriment can be stored

ion in this orders but,

if injured in any manner, causo the whole plant to rot. “They are con

that, up to the present time, it remains a rare plant in cultivation. iolerally

The ٤ m th a leaf, and is slender an

twelve inch on this ar the delicate and beautiful wh ted flower

lipis c | while the column, with its beak, closely resembles th ome little bin
thus affords a good distinguishing characte

abit of the plant is not so free and robust as that of most other members of thi
: so large or so thick in texture, and it has in consequence hitherto been conside

ficult plant to culti ensure success in its management, it should be grown upon
with a little sphagnum moss, and s d a short dista he plant xuriates in
dance of light, but does not endure strong o must refer our readers

de IL, and of P. grandifora

o the directions given for the e n of P. inler PI

aurea, under Plate VIT. of the present series of this work

Puare XVI

ODONTOGLOSSUM REICHENHEIMIT.

bearing at their apex a pair sente leaves, and‏ ماه

A fine stove epiphyte, with elonga
lanceolate, terni

ur broad tr
resemble the sepals in size, form, and colouring
alate, dilated and apiculate at the spex:

panicle of numerous showy flowers. "The sepals ax

Vint, pale greenish-yellow, almost wholly covered by about

1 Ar but similarly marked behind; the petals closely
bat are slightly narrower; and le and

pale purple in the lower half

ers bars of a dark purplish-brown,

i lip is oblong,

Gone at the hase, obtusely lo

te upwards, and bearing on the disk near the base a pair of and on each side a slightly

mid callosity; the wing of the column is almost want

Linden and Reichenbach fit, Bonplandia, iii. 214; Td, Peseatorea, t. V‏ باصن
ہ0۸۷ Ji, Walpers' Annales Botanices Systematice, vi. S12. Bateman, Monograph of‏ امیر
Lemaire, Mlustration Hortiole, 213 (plat‏

Thin fin plant which was discovered in Mexico by M. Ghiesreght, growing on the ماه‎ which cover

X cide of the Cordillera of Mechoacan, in many respects resembles سر ارس‎ the

the west
Mion Kareitabi of Lindley, from which Prof, Reichenbach many years ago distinguished il- The
eichenheimii itself

neral resemblance between the two is indeed very close, and as Odontaglousum

deny varies considerably in the coloring of its Tip, it is possible that varieties of structure, forming

he variations we refer to, are evident in

ne day be met with

connecting links between the two, may sc

The fures of this plant which have been made publio. In that of Mr. Linden the lip is wholly of a ele

omed in our own

ents the plant as it اط‎

as in that annexed, whieh repr

rosy purple; in M. Lemai
I of the lip is of this colour, the tip being white; and in that publisheil by Mr:

collection, only the lower h
+ with merely a horseshoe-shaped band of this pale purple on its disk.

Bateman the lip is whit
The Odont
wo here illustrate is, as will be seen, a beautiful species, and very rare in collections, though it has been.

dots are just now a very popular family of Orchids, and very much in request. That which

for some years in cultivation. It is an abundant bloomer, and requires cool treatment. We Bave seen
the peeudobube grown to more than seven inches in height, and under such circumstances the spikes

which were prod
ond allied to O. Karwinabi on the one hand, and to O. lere on the other, the speci
ished by the number of its

now figured is very distinct from any other Odontoglosmum, and may be disti
pikes, It is decidedly worthy of a place in every colection, however

is, and by its strong flower

that the flowers continue in perfection for several weeks.

mall. One of its great recommendations

£ It has hick fleshy pseudobulls,

is, as we have indicated, a strong growing‏ سمل

O. Reic
green foliage, and the long flower-ecapes are produced from the side of the peeudobulbs, and grow

ıl petals are of a yello

and dark

sore or les branched. "he sepals

to the height of three feet, becoming
green barred with purplish-brown, while the lip is white at the upper par, and of a beautiful rose-colour at
the base, and n Tt makes an excellent exhibition plant

"This plant thrives best in a pot wih fibrous peat soil, and must have good drainage for it requires to
season. After the growth is completed, lese

olded back on the column as in O. ۵

during the growin,

be well supplied with water at the ro

valer will suffice, though the plant must never be allowed to become shrivelled in ite resting se

always be kept plump. The plant requires a good-sized pot, as it is a robust feeder, but the pot should
always be at east half-flled with drainage, and rough peat must be used on sphagnum mos. ‘The wate
must be allowed to pass off quickly, for if it were to become stagnant it would cause the thick fleshy
pscudobulls to rot, especially if this occurred in winter. In other respects this species requires the same
treatment as O. hastilabiun.

‘This plant is propagated by dividing the pseudobulbs when they begin to push; at that stage they

make roots sooner and at once commence to grow, so that they quickly get established. After dividing,

they must be potted in the same kind of material as that recommended abore. We have not found that

the plant is at all liable to the depredations of insects,

Piare XVII

ONCIDIUM MACRANTHUM.

dues fr
7

o, furrowed, and transversely wrinkled pseudobulbs, which p
s from the root, and is extended in

A magnificent stove epiphyte, with

à laws The scape is

their apex a pair of oblong point

I length, and rater sparsely furnished with large showy flowers thr
em

climbin

panicle, several f
an olivetinted yell

btus, undulatod, and clawed,

he sepals are con

hers, the dorsal one marked at the base with a few purple

in some‏ عملا ره زان
lar size and shape, clear yellow; and the lip is small, bastate, purple, yellowish towards‏

d two reversed teeth

the petals are of si
the tip, and furnished in the centre with a gr

at white eres, consisting of central keel

‘on either site; the wings of the column are rounded.

Oca مسسھد‎ Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceons Plants, 205: Id, Parton's Flower Garden, ii

130, 1d, Folia Orelidaces, art. Oncidium 4. Reichenbach fil, Walpers Annales Botanices Systematics vi 102

We have here a most remarkable Orchid, whe character of its

er we regard the size and stikin

unusually regular and leathery flowers, the Tong scandent panicle, or the peculiar and, as it would seem,

variable colour. Tt would indeed appear that the colours vary to a very remarkable extent, since while Dr.
Lindley describes (from dried specimens no doubt, and therefore perhaps not quite accurately) the sepals as
purple- brown and the petals yellow, the plant represented in our Plate had the whole flower except the lip

yellow, the sepals being dashed over by an olive tint difficult of imitation, and others which have subse-

{quently bloomed at Farnham Castle, have the sepals, like the petals, of a clear yellow. The symmetry of

i flowers of this plant, by the equality of size and regularity of position of the sepals and

form given to

val feature in the Orchid family, wherein grot

petals, is a very unu que irregularity is all but universal.

This fine and m: awas first flowered in

ive-flowered species—one of the most beautiful of the genus

this country by Lord Londesborongh, from whose valuable collection at Grimston Park, near Tadcaster in

Yorkshire of the Royal Horticultural

the Tuesday mecting

fine plant was exhibited Inst year at one

ervedly obtained a first-class award; and we may here incidentally remark,

Society. This plant most d
u

afford for the display of novelties; indeed were it not

ıt the lovers of new plants are greatly indebted to the Society for the opportunity which these meetings

lem, many choice plants would bloom in obscurity,
and would die off without being seen by the public,
This

houses, as well us to our exhibition

and plant will prove to be a welcome addition to our orchid

tables, for its lowers are totally distinct from those of any other of its class. It is of frve-blooming habit,

and it comes from a cool climate—both

hese being strong recommendations, which will make it sought

sent it is scarce, but we anticipate a better supply, so that those who

after by cultivators generally, At p

really desire to do so, may no don iL There are several varieties amongst the plants which

have bloomed in England, varieties differing in the colour and in the size of their Towers, as occurs with

most other Orchids, owing to their being produced from seed in their wild state. T indeed, the

varieties produced are alm

4 endless; and this adds greatly to the interest which attaches to the blooming

which something novel may always be expect

of imported Orchids, a here are several Oucidiums

Tike the present in respect to growth, and it is therefore dificult to distinguish it until it blooms.

Oncidium macranthum produces ovate furrowed pseudobulbs, about three inches in height, and its light

green foliage reaches to a foot or more in length. "The scape supporting the panicle of o
abi

£ the young growth. ‘The flowers, in the form we have re

ometimes reaching to eight or ten fect in length; it is produced f

almost regular in form; the sepals being of a rich olive-inted yellow, while the two petals are of a clear

yellow, and the small hastate lip is of a reddish-purple, with very prominent ا‎

produced in the spring, and last several weeks in beauty

This plant is of easy culture under proper treatment. Tt should be grown in the eool-honse, along

If grown in a pot, perfect

with the Odontaglossums. We find that it thrives either on a block or in a p

le sphagnum moss. ‘The pot

y, together with a soil of fibrous peat mixed with a lit

in size a larger pot may

rous, though as the plant increas
image. When pl

suspended from the

must not be g is dam

nted on a

oe well to the

be given; itis, however, always of the higl

hagnum moss, and the block must e

block of wood, the roots must be covered with
pecially during the

roof, Treated in this way, it must be borne in mind that more water is required, e

dices, On the other hand, the pseudobulbs

son. After the growth is completed le

his is extremely injurious, They should always be

to shrivel,

kept in a plump condition
pseudobulbs just as the plant begins to grow, at which time

Propagation is effected by dividir

After they are divided, put them in pots or on a block, but always keep

fresh roots are quickly forme

them in the shade, until they get somewhat established, Insects should be well sought for, and arrested. If

om suffer.

allowed to accumulate, the plant will

Prare 1

SACCOLABIUM (GUTTATUM) HOLFORDIANUM.

aves, obliquely retuso at

with distichons, leathery, channelled, arching

e stove epiphy

A remarkably handso

the apex, and having long pendulous dense cylindrical racemes of prettily- wem. The sepals

both white, spotted with bright purple rose; and the lip is oblong, emarginate, of

a rich bright purple

Saccotanton Houroxiastst, of gardens

inled as the finest of all known forms of Saccolabivan

The subject of our present illustration moy be re

well as S. Blunei, is referred by Professor Reichenbach to the genus Jthynrclo-

a plant which, a‏ سم
of Blume. This‏ واه

which he calls Raynclostyls retusa, the
inks through the copious varieties which are known. ‘They are all remarkably ornamental plants. Indeed

ds S. guttatum and S. Blumei as the varieties of a species,

ed orchidologist re

nected by numerous

xtreme forms of which he considers to be cor

re everywhere prized by cultivat

the Saccolabiums rank amongst the most beautiful of Orchids, a
d which gives an

"The magnificent specimen of S. Holfordianum, which we have here represente

excellent idea of the general character of the plant, was taken from a fine plant in our own collection.

‘This particular form is rare as well as beautiful. The merit of its introduction is due ما‎ R. S. Holford,

Esq of Western Birt, Gloucestershire, in whose collection we saw it many years ago, blooming magnifi-

sept this high position

cently, We then pronounced it to be the finest Saceolabivm we had seen, and it has

ent

spect to ils magni

ever since, being up to the present time unapproached by any other form in
proach

the rich colour of its flowers—a colour which is indeed un

and

spikes,
her it forms a most noble

ın account of its breadth, and alto

moreover is remarkably di
kes, when it was the admiration of every one. We have said

We have seen it with fourteen glorious

that the plant itself is rare, and we may add that fine specimens are exceedingly scarce. Many plants have
D P p

old for S Holfordiamem, which have not been true, th

n exhibited and

۳
proved to he fine varieties of
nized by the breadth and by the blunt ends of its foliage

guttatum, to which type indeed S. Holfordianum belongs. "The true plant

This Saccolabinm make the finest of all plants for exhibition, as well as for the decoration of

at London

ret the absence from our

the orchid-honse. And here we may remark that one cannot bi

exhibitions of remarkably fine plants, such as were seen exhibited at the time of the Chiswick shows. ‘There

five to ten spikes of blos n the same plant,

Succolabiums were frequently seen with from
and those who were in the habit of visiting these Gardens at the time referred to often speak with regret of the

from the exhibitions of the present d

absence of such remarkable s
exhibition plants have gone on inereasing in size, Orchids have certainly become less.

Succolabium Holfordianum is 2 steong-grown compact pip

dark green leaves of from twelve to eighteen inches in length, and very blunt at the apices. ‘The spikes

ih, the flowers being rich and showy in colour=white, spotted

dicen inches in

are often as much as
with deep rose. Tt blooms during May and June, and if kept from damp and at the coolest end of the
House, will last for at Teast four weeks in perfection

Wis e

ace

XIX.‏ سط

DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM OCULATUM.

A noble epiphyte of great beauty, with erect jointed stems, which grow from three to four feet high, and an

clothed with alternate distchous lanceolate leaves, four to six inches long. "The flowers are produced in To

pendulous racemes from the upper joints of the ripened and then leas stems, ‘The sepals are oblong, enti

spreading, and of a rich golden yellow. The petals are broader than the sepals, elged with minute teeth,
ofa golden yellow; and the lip is large, cucullate, undivided, spreading at the mouth, of a

yellow, with a l

deep blood-red spot near the base, the whole of its surface and of the n

brin
من نهر‎ ear, octramon, Hooker, Botanical Mag

t 4100; Lindley, in Partons Flower G

Magazine of Botany, vi. 109, with plate: not of Lin

7 ال‎ in Walpere' Annates otanices رک‎
Despont Paxton, Park

ore des Serres, ۸۸ t

7

cion, in Van Hout’

‘This beautiful species is most nearly related to Dendrobium clavatum, and Deudrobium نسمتھ‎ both

of which differ in not having fringed petals, the former also in the long membranaceous bracts borne on its

smaller and more fleshy flowers which are not so much

inflorescence, and the latter in producin expanded.
"Ivo varieties are known ; the one first figured in the “Exotic Flora? by Sir William Hooker, and which has
× blo

own in gardens

the flowers whole coloured or unspotted; the other, represented in our Plate, wh oms, and

ich deep reddish-brown spot towards the base of the lip. ‘This later is not unf

ently
quently g

under the erroneous name of Dendrobium Paztoni, which error, singularly enough, seems to have originated

with Mr. Paxton himself, in his ‘Magazine of Botany,’ and to have altogether puzzled Dr. Planchon when

describing the plato transferred from that work to the ‘Flore des Serre,” In truth, Dendrobium Paztoni

belongs to a diferent group, and bears a two-flowered inflorescence, as originally described by Dr. Lindley

This beautiful plant is a native of India, and was introduced to the Chatsworth collection through Mr

Gibson, by whom so many fine Dendrobes were for the first time sent to Europe. Dr. Lindley refers to

it as a native of Mergui. Tt has now become somewhat plentiful in this country, but is none the les

worthy of cultivation on that account. Indeed, few Orchidaceous plants contribute more towards the em-

"bellisiment of our plant stores than the various species of Dendrobium, and in this respect the fine variety

ted in our present Plate, drawn from a specimen which bloomed in our own collection, certainly

stands in the very first ra
Dendr

feet, The leaves are arranged upon the stems in a distichous manner; and from near the apex of the two-

Y. erect growth,

a plant taining a height of from three to four

om fimbriatum oculatum

year-old growths, the long drooping racemes or spikes of flowers are produced. The same stems or growths

continue to produce flower-spikes, at various times, for several years in succession. The flowers in this

variety are of a rich deep orange colour, the petals being minutely toothed at the edge, whilst the broad

expanded lip, which is of a paler yellow, is beautiful fringed, and marked near the base with a semicircular

blotch of deep velvety blackish-purpl

active flow

This fine plant produces its very ly durin

at various seasons, but princip the months

of May and June, on which account it forms a beautiful object for public exhibitions. By many Orchid

growers it is pronounced difficult to bloom, and as a consequence it is discarded for exhibition purpose

ut this estimate of its habit is not Lome out by the facts, We ourselves have seen it frequently ex

ed in a very finely developed condition—upon one occasion with upwards of رفظ‎ of its magnificent

ikes of flowers, in full perfection, in which state the effect it produced was gorgeous in

lisa n ant, and thrives best under pot culture, requiring similar treatment t

the plants shoul be grown in a somewhat high temperature,

given to Dendrobium nobile,

phere, and the roots should also be kept well su

supply of

atmosphere, and water must be withheld from the roots, except in just sufficient quantity to prevent th

stems from shrivelling. In spring, when the Mlowerspikes begin to show, a more plentiful supply
de given, and the plants should then be removed into a higher temperature in order to encourage the
healthy and

‘The material best sui

the successful cultivation of this plant is a mixture of good fibrous

pent and sphagnum moss, in about equal parts, to which may be added a few lumps of chareoal. It is
necessary to take especial care in potting, that the base of the stem is kept well above the rim of the
pots this should be done in order that the young upon first starting may not suffer decay, an in-

jury which is very liable to occur if they are buried in the potting material

The former is easily kept away

the atmo

byw ad the latter is principally foster too much fire-heat, and keepin

ise Dendrobe ms must be cut apart

sul the plant divided, Sometimes they will produce young plants on the top of the old

fairly developed, may be taken off and plante

>

Prame XX

UM WARNERIANUM.

ODONTOGLOS;

ste psoudobulbs, terminating in a solitary

hyte, of dwarfish habit, with. crowded narrow elongate-

ly ep

Tigulate acute leaf, and
The

with an oculate spot in addi

base with an oculat

melp-marked

ım their base the nodding scapes of large white, o

ative, white with a few tranmerse brownish-ed bars, the dorsal one

pals are oblong aent

dove
at tle base” the petals broader, blunt, wary at the margin, marked at the
ir of roundish spots of the same colour as those on the sepals

osod by a

ar, obtuse, crenulate, and minutely-crisped lamina, and on the mar-

and the lip has a broad cordat-tria

ton a cuneaticaborate, yellow callosity, abrupily threelobed in front. The column

rowed basal pe

ia

otaniçho Zeitung, 1804, 2

Ovoxroczossun Wansraaxen, Reichenbach fi, in

1805, 579, with w gure

sor Reichenbach, by whom it was

ot is referred to by Prof

‘This very rare amd beautiful Odontog!

and Odoutoglosenn

named and described, as being a connecting link between Odontoglossum nelulomm

udobulbs of the Tater. Its affinity

ho former; and the slender narrow سج‎

Rossi, having the broad petals
ith Odontoglossum mazitlare bas also been pointed out by its describer.
The plant is supposed to EP

duction, Tt flowered first, we believe, in our own collection several years a

a native of Mexico, but nothing positivo is known as to its history or intro-

, when Professor Reichenbach

did us the honour to name it after us. More recently, when it had become better established, it afforded the

material from whieh the present beautiful illustration was prepared

Tt is a species of dwarf compact habit, furnished with small taped pseudobulbs, which are about

‚con colour, tinged at the top with

two inches in height and an inch in diameter at the base, of a deep
روا‎ The leaves grow singly from the top of the psendobulbs, and are somewhat erect, deep
b. The flowers

the sepals and petals being white, spotted and bared near the مسا‎ with transverse ines of dark

produced upon nodding spikes from the base of the pseudo-

‘green above, paler benea
bu
che
js developed, while the

"The plant

the year when fl

large, pare white in front, stained with yellow at the very base where the crest

te colour; the lip

umm is tinged with lilac

the autumn or winter months, a season of

nerally produces its lovely blossoms duri

aro valuable, such charming ones as those of the present species

vm of any

being doubly so, especially since they continue in full beauty for a considerable time, if they are but kept

free from contact with moisture

cool house, with a moist atmosphere. Al-

Odontoglossum Warneriawum thrives best in a moderat

though grave errors have been committed by attempting to grow the denizens of cool regions in too g

a heat, and many charming species have thereby been lost to our gardens, yet it ما‎ De feared that equally

Les have been made by Orchid growers in rushing to the opposite extreme, and exposing their

justified by the information ye have concerning the

plants to a degree of cold which is by no m
climate of their native habitats

this plant, ike many others of the same genus, should be kept moderately moist during winter

e dried or rested at that season

many Orchids require to be, for we have found many

Odontoglots to grow more during the dull winter months than during the summer
drained, and the material for potting should be compo

The insects by which th her Odontoglossums ure liable to be attacked are ile,

metimes the yellow fly, while if kept too dry, or in too gre

a heat, the thrips will make its a
its ap

For all these pests, we recommend careful washing with soft soap and water as the safest and
surest remedy which cam be adopted. Fum ith tobacco or tobacco paper is to be avoided, for
we bave found by experience that it is very prejudicial to the foliage of the small-growing Odont

mai

Prare XXI

SCHOMBURGKIA UNDULATA.

A bold and remarkably handsome epiphyte, with stout fusiform pseudobulbs, surmounted by a pair of thick oblong

leaves, and terminated by am €

ngated peduncle supporting a dense terminal raceme of brown and purple
much wndilated a

flowers. "The sepals and p

d twisted at the edge, and of a deep
Tip, which is bent upwards parallel with the column, is cordate at the base
ile, the lateral lobes purple, obtuseangled, and turned up towards the column, the middie

puplish-brown colour. "D

ate, white im the centre with five wndulated ridges deep purple at the margin. ‘The column is purple
and winged.

Register, 1845, t, 59,
xa pota, Reichenbach fi, in Walpere Annales Botanices Sytenatica vi. 420.

ey, Botanical Register, 1844, mise, 21, also in note under t. 21; Id, Botanical

‘This fine plant was first found by the indefa
2400. feet elevatio tural bridge of Toon

country by Mr. Rucker in 1844, the spikes were small, some fis

gable traveller Linden, who gathered it in New Grenac
on rocks near Pandi, “the

120.” When first flowered in

- or six-flowered only, but M.

Linden's wild specimens bore as many as twenty flowers, so that something like the grand appearance it

presents in our Plate was confidently looked for amongst cultivators, and may indeed be seen every year in
our collection at Broomfield. Tt is closely related as to habit to Schomburgkia crispa and Schomburgkia
marginata, but it differs from both these species by its very long, narrow, crisped sepals and petals

The genus Señomburgbia was established by Dr. Lindley in the *Sertum Orchidaceum,’ and * differs
from Epidendrum and its allies in having eight pollen-masses.” The large size of the elongated ps

do-
bulbs is a characteristic feature of the species; indeed one of them, Sckomburgkia tibictis, which has
thick conical hollow pseudobulbs from one to two feet long, is the Cow's

hora or Trumpet Orchis of

Honduras. "The interior of the hollow psendobulbs of this plant is as smooth as the hollow interior of a.

bamboo stem, and is often made the hon

of a colony of ants, Amongst the species introduced to our

gardens are $, erispa from Demerara, with yellowish-brown crispy flowers and a white lip; S. marginata,

from Demer

and Surinam, with purple flowers, yellow at the edge; S. #bieinie, from Honduras, with
rich reddish-purple flowers, and a beautifully marked orange lip, bordered with purple; S. rosea, from
Santa Martha, with deep red lowers, having a rose-coloured lip, and said to be the glory of the genus;

S. Lyons, from Jamaica, with cha

the New Grenadan plant now fi

ming white flowers, everywhere transversely barred with purple; and
red, S. undulata.
"The subject of our beautiful illustration is of a compact and fr

growing habit. “ho fusiform
pscudobulbs and leaves grow from one to two feet or more in height, the latter be

from two to three
inches broad, thick, and of a deep green colour. "Ihe flower stem, which rises from between the l
the top of the ps

th, and is terminated by a spike or raceme

im which are bome some twelve or fourteen large handsome flowers, "The sepals and peta
purplish-brown, with the margins be

obulbs, is produced. to a considerable اہ(‎

are of a

tifully waved or ur

ndulated; the side lobes of the lip are purplish-
Mao, the front lobe violet, with several raised white lines on its dise, The flowers of this fine epiphyte

last for a considerable time in ful beauty, if moderate care

are produced during the dull winter months, an

js taken to keep them from being wetted when usin

"The same mode of treatment as that which we have previously described as applicable to C

1 Zelia, will s

Hey
this Schonéurgkia admirably, for although all these plants will grow upon blocks

of them succeed far better when planted in pots, in a proper

Schomburgkia undulata begins to grow after bloomin; at that time a little extra heat and

to induce a robust and us development. When this is completed, water

1 bo

should be almost entirely withheld, and the plant sho

thorough ripening of the pseudobulbs, as upon this ripening process being perfected depends, in a great
measure, the display of flowers in winter

Propagation is effected by division of the pee being taken to secure a yo
lending shoot to each piece. lf this is not attended to, a considerable time may elapse before the new plant

addening the eyes of its p

will make a start, preparatory

<<

MO

XU

CATTLEYA REGNELLII.

۱ compact very beautiful stove epiphyte, with olivereen le lowers on short erect se

‘or sometimes three short, oblong, blunt leaves, which are slightly

m threo to five in number, and are comparatively e song from

ih. The sepals are Tigulate-obl

apex. The flowers an
aid somewhat ri

Spathulate form at the apex, wavy, rich bronzy or clivereen, freely marked with oblong spots of a brownish-
purple hue laid on in a transverse direction. The petals are rather narrower and more undulated, but othervi
imilar in form, colour, and marking. The mge and prominent, nearly fat, threelobed; the two basal
lobes large, and arching over the column, whit a sd with rosy-purplo, beautifully striate with
the same colours within; the middle lobe has a narrowed. which i yellow and five-furrowed, with

«anil expands into a broad obcordate lamina, which is of a rich bright magenta
The reverse of the sepals and petals is
ud

ginal purple b

king out into forking lines towards the toothed white el

on green. The column, which fits cose down on the base o

the lip, is remarkably

hick, white, with a purple spot at the tip

our present illustration is a native of Brazil, and takes rank as one of the most beautiful of

cially remarkable on account of the numerous magnificent species

of our Orchid collections

the smaller members of à genus which is spe

which it

n prises, and which furnishes some of the brightest ornamen

It is by some Orchid cultivators considered ere variety of Cattleya Schillerizna, and Pr

ors of the Orchid family, who has seen specimens of

Reichenbach, one of the most learned inve
plan, coincides in this view. A reference to the published figuros of that plant will

ow that it is, at I

a well-marked variety
tes a species and what a variety, it is not our purpose to

itself is

is that tho particular plant should bear a recognized name

Into the vexed question as to what co

test importance to the cultivator, so long as the pla

enter, nor is it, indeed, of the sl

ornamental. AIL that is necessary in such cas

as a means to ensure its identification. Wherever dissimilar plants thus bear authenticated names, and are

ns ما‎ warrant such a distinction, the cultivator may very

sufficiently diferent in their habits or their blo

Jy put aside the botanical question as being to him of no vital importance

legneli, which is faithfully represented. in our plate, bloomed in the collection of
Mr, James Hodge

This Cattleya
Edward Wright, Esq

It is evidently nearly allied

ır the care of his garden

of Gravelly Hill, B
Cattleya Aclandie. ‘The

vudobulbs attain a height of four or five inches,

md support two or three bluntly oblong, thick, fleshy, dark green leaves. "The flowers are about
thn diameter, and from three to five upon the scape. ‘The sepals and petals are
oblong, spathulate, green behind, tinted with olive in front, and marked by deep purple transverse spo

The lip has a great obeordate front lobe, which is amethyst purple, toothed, and edged with white; the b

is yellow, with purple bars; and there are two large side lobes, which are amethyst margined with white, and

bent over the column. We learn from Mr. Ho at when the re in a vigorous and healthy

nition they flower twice in the season, namely, in July, and again in September or Octobe

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Piare XXII.

ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRA! WARNERI.

late ligulate leaves, and close racemes of very large flower ui
md spotted with einnamon-brown. The oblor pals are flashed with rose on
the posterior hal, and marked with some six or eight large, oblong, transverse spots of cinnamon brow
petals are T ovate, undulated, toothed at th d stained with ereamy yellow towards the b
The lip ice se, nearly oblong in outline, but much undalated, yellow at the base and white a
the tip, and a lange innamon brown blotch dividing the yellow from the white. ۱ fev
maller brown spots down cach side, and a few red streaks near the base
Opossoctossr Aurxisonae Waren, Moore, Josraa ofthe Royal Hortienltaral Society iu, p. cxx
The magnificent species of Odontaglossnm, of which a remarkably fine variety is here represented, is found
in great profusion in New Granada, at elevations of from 7000 to 8000 feet, growing upon the branches of the

somewhat compressed, usually

in length,

bulbs are smooth, and about three

forest trees. "The pseud
but sometimes, though more rarely. ovate; dark green in colour, occasionally

from the

thro in number, lincar-Ianceolate,

tinged with reddish-brown, as also are the leaves. The leaves are usual

ight green on both sides; the raceme

tapering to a point, from twelve to eighteen inches in length, and b

iobulb, and is from a foot to eighteen inches Jong, branched

or unbranched, and bearing esp
id not hare been found to commemorate our amiable and lovely Princess than this Ode

weed from the baso of the

of lowers is p

eat Beauly. A more fitting

potted flowers of

many large white, vario

glot from.

plant
New Granada.

There is an almost endless profusion of varieties of the Odontoglossum Alerandra, all of them being
P

gst the finest we have yet seen have been flowered by Mr. Pilcher,

plants of exceeding beauty. Some amor

re of the rich collection of Sigismund Rucker, Es, of Wandsworth. ‘The superb variety

who h

ich has been so beautifully rendered in the accompanying illustration, flowered in our own collection at

Broomfield in the early part of 1809; and when exhibited at the Gardens of the Royal Horticultur
The

£ April in that year, it received both a First-class Certificate and its present n

ape. The sepa

flowers are upwards of three inches in diameter, and closely set upon the

amed with several spots of reddish-brown, The petals are much broader than the

‘The lip is white towards the apex, yellow

pals, beautifully frilled at the margins, and of the purest whi
ven, the edges being frilled in the same manne

towards the base, and blotched on the disc with reddish

a are those of the petals.

Odontoglossum Alexandra Warneri is a plant very easily cultivated, if not placed in a strong heat
1

especially the present species, is as‏ ل

us, with but few exception

The temperature we find to suit thi

nearly as possibly 50° in winter an 0* in summer, ‘The house must be cautiously shaded, so that the
direct rays of the sun do not fall upon the plants; otherwise they enjoy plenty of light. An abundant
water should also be given ; indeed, this species will never bear drying. Ventilation is another
of the highest importance to these plants; for, if a proper circulation of pure air is not supplied, they

sume a sickly appearance.

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WES.

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XXIV.‏ ×ط

STUM SPECTABILE.

CYPRIPEDIUM VEN

dient d
medium size, and very handsome; the dorsal spal is ovate, acuminate, cl
n a pale ground; the lateral sepals are narrower and paler ; the petals are obl
ate, somewhat wavy, white ined with

and the median line an

A very superior variety of the Handsome Lady's Slipper: The leaves are beautifully tessellated
of green, The flowers ar
striped with green

nly

7, and having th | while along

; the lip has a blunt

scattered towards the base a few large, unequal, dark purple
pouch or sac, with an open mouth, yellowish.

Creme vesestow serenus, Hort. Willi

en, veined with darker green, and lightly suffused with rose

account of the bellum more or less re

us, which derives its name from Cypris, ono of the n

nes of Venus, and podion, a slipper, on

mbling a slipper, and which has Jed to their being familiarly known as

Lady's Slippers, contains many interesting species of an extremely o

mental character, ‘The type of the

present plan
1516, and

a very old inhabitant of our hothouses, having been introduced from Nepal in the year

indeed the first of the Indian species brought to Europe. For many years this plant remained

a great favourite with Orchid growers, but eventually lot its popularity, owing to the discovery and introduc-

tion of the many larger-flowered

from the Indian Archipelago and South America

ind more showy spec

whieh no

adorn our plant stoves. Nevertheless,

though not amongst the most attractive kinds, it is still

very handeom

nd when a variety like the subject of our illustration is obtained, and which flowered in our

own collection durin

the past winter, it Jacks but little of the beauty displayed by

nany of the rarer kinds.
Cypripedium venustum spectabile, Nike the original type of the specie

is a native of Northern India,

and during the flowering season will stand unharmed in an ordinary warm conservatory, or as an ornament to

the drawing-room, in which it will produce a charming effect, with its curious marbled leaves and pouched or

slipper-ike Iabellum. When, moreover, it is remembered that its period of flowering is mid-winter, a sc
when Howe

of almost any kind are heartily welcome, it will bo evident that such very attractive and lasting

ones as these must be specially valuable

Te is a plant of a dwarf, compact habit of growth, and, like the rest of the genus, is destitute of pecudo-

he leaves are arranged in a distichous manner, and are of an oblong form, bluntish, about six

lı and two in breadth, the upper side being ıt and lively green colour, mottled with

blotches of darker oliv

en, and the under side light green, prettily marbled with dull purple. From the

centre of these leaves is produced a scape bearing a single flower, in which the dorsal sepal, which is largest,

is ovate, acuminate in shap

Vd white, marked all over with broad parallel streaks of green, extending from

the base to the apex. "The petals are grecnish-white, streaked with deeper green and tipped with rosy red, and

these are also more or less blotched with blackish-

ple. "The lip is calceiform, or pouched; its ground colour

is yellowish-green, prettily veined with darker green, and suffis

d with rose. These flowers retain their full

beauty for many weeks, which

an additional recommendation of them to all plant-lovers.

The plant now under consideration succeeds best under pot-culture. The material best adapted for

potting is a compost of good fibrous peat and chopped sphagnum moss, to which a little clean leaf-mould and.

some silver sand may be added, "The drainage should be as perfect as possible d
must not be elevated above the rim of the pots in which they are to be grown. ho growing season
the plant enjoys the temperature of the East India House, and an ample supply of water; but after the
growths are complete it may without injury be removed to a cool house, where it must be kept comparatively

dry. Cypripediuns, however, have no pseudobulbs, and consequently cannot with impunity withstand the total

deprivation of water for any len i dibough they should be kept somewhat drier during

their resting season than during the time of growth, their leaves should by no means be allowed to shrivel.
"These plants are not subject (o ravages from insects to any great extent, scale and thrips being their
principal enemies, ‘These must be kept away by careful washing and by maintaining a proper amount of

moisture in th

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Prare XXV

ODONTOGLOSSUM ۰

A charming epiphytal orchid, with ovate compressed psendobulbs, from the top of which grow a pair of oblong-ensi-
rm, somewhat undulated, coriaceous leaves, the latter recurved at the end, and shorter than the erect
je. ‘The racemes are from six-lowered to tend

flower wered, and the flowers measure from two and
half inches to three inches across. The sepals and petals are similar in size and form, oblong, wavy at th

margin, the lower sepals connat

yellow, spotted and barred with rich brown. The lip i
marrom obovate, retuse, auricled at the base, of a brighter y
and bearing

at the base, all pale

w, spotted around the margin with ral,
n the disk a crest which has two teeth on either side; the column is furnished with red subulate
horns or ei,

Opoxroonosstn Insur, Lindley, Folia Orckidaceæ, art. Odontoglossum no. 8; Reichenbach fil, Walpers Annales

Botanices Systematicn, vi. 828; Bateman, Monograph of Olontoglosaum, t. ا‎

Oscimes پنجسمعا‎ Barker, Botanical Register, 1840, mise. 2
Flore des Serres, 1848, t- 6

3 Bateman, Orehidace of Mexico, t 21; Van Honte

‘This handsome species of Odontoglot has very much the general aspect of Odontoglossum grande, but

it is distinguished from that species by its narrower lip, and. especially by its cirrhose column. ‘These two
species are indeed the connecting links between the sections Zuodontogtossum and Xanthoglossum, the

former of which, represented by O. Tuseayi, has the column wings elongated and acuminate, while in the later,

represented by 0. grande, the corresponding parts either bear rounded auricles, or are altogether wingless.

Odontoglossum Tusleayi is native of Mexico and Oaxaca, and has been for some years an inmate of our

orchid houses, A very fine variety named macranthum, by Dr.Lindley, and which has paler and larger flowers,

but without the rich red spotting on the lip, las bome in gardens the name of O. Zawrenceanum. "Ihe

typical form of the plant is very faithfully represented in the accompanying plate, Tts near relationship to

ıt from the figure; indeed, it resem

O. grande will be app: les that plant so closely, that it is not always
y m

easily recognized when destitute of flowers. The peeudobulbs which are ovate, and somewhat furrowed, bear

‘upon the apex a pair of oblong, pointed leaves, which aro about ten inches long, leathery in texture, and of

green. The flower spike is ¢

a deep sudobulb, and usually

bears from six to ten flowers, which individually measure about three inches in diameter. ‘The sepals and

«t, produced from the base of the p

are oblong, nearly equal in size, and waved at the edges; the ground colour is a pale yellow, marked.

‘throughout with transverse ba

s of reddish brown. ‘The lip is somewhat obovate,

er of red spots, and furnished with a few tubercles on the

Tt blooms at various times
eb a native of
elevations of from 5000 to 6000 feet above the level of the sea, the

car, but may be easily made to bloom constantly in January and

rary, Bein

Mexico, where it is found growin

species now under consideration, like the majority of the plants belonging to

is extensive and magnificent

genus, requires to be grown in a cool house; indeed, very few of the Odontoglots live long if subjected to

much heat, We have found this species thrive admirably in a temperature ranging from 50° to 55° in winter,

and from 50° to 65º during summer,

it is impossible to maintain this temperature equably
within a few

oes during the bri ays of summer, The soil should be good fibrous peat, with

which may be mixed some few pieces of charcoal; at the same ti

and

is the drainage must be amp

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XXVI‏ سط

ONCIDIUM CRISPUM.

ly showy stove epiphyte having oblong furrowed r

bearing at the summit a pair‏ له
with pur base. The fowerscape pr‏
atin‏

wers, which are about three inches across, and are sometimes borne as many as fifty

lanceolate, leathery, nente, green leaves, sometimes mark
from the base of the bulbs, and is sim

le or occasionally bran

panicle of l

The sepals are blong, obtuse, wavy, the lateral ones half united ; the

and mach erisped, blunt, unguieulate, and as well as the sepals of a rich brown, becoming yellow

barred with brown at the claw. The lip is very lateri o
ı like the petals, the fi

patch oflunate form near the unguis, which is yellow

es short and recurved, th

central one lage, ronndish-cordate, and very much er

nt portion red-brown like the
other parts of the lower, with a lighter or dull

ore or less spotted with ed; the erst is deltoid, te-lo, ovate acumin

e, beari row of teeth

the column is ye ed toothed fleshy win

Oscimust emsven, Ladies, Botanical Cabe
Botanical Register, t. 1920; Id. Folia Oreidacer, art. Onc
Manna, Botanist, t. 20 : Reichenbach fil, Walper? Anales

197; 4

1854; Lindley, Genera and Species of Orchidaceots Pl

ium, 20; Hooter, Botanical Mapas

Spaemati‏ یہ

This strikingly handsome Orchid was introduced in 1832 by the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, and

was beautifully figured by them in the Botanical Cabinet on its first producing flowers, Tt is of Brazilian

nd is a native of the Organ Mountains, where it was found growing upon the trunks of dead trees,

Amongst the Oneids it is rem

ably distinct, both as regards its habit of growth and the colour of its

flowers, ‘The prevalent hue in the blossoms of this very extensive genus is yellow of various shades, and

more or ess mottled with red or brown. ‘This prevailing yellow colour, together with the robust growth and

free-blooming habit of the majority of the species, renders them exceedingly desirable plants for general

cultivation, as they serve to light up the groups of which they form part, and contrast finely with other

kinds possessing less brilliant and decided coloured flowers. The plant which forms our present subject is
۲ ۲

however, an exception to the general rule in respect ما‎ colour, and though yellow is not entirely wanting in

its blossoms, it "The form we figure is a very richly-coloured one, mot at all

but very slightly develope

commonly met with in collections.

A few years since the number of individuals of this species in cultivation was very limited. This was

owing to the fact that but small importations of it had been received in this country, and, its proper treatment

being then understood, many of the originally imported plants soon dwindled away. Now, however, cul

tivatom have applied themselves to overcome this difficulty, and, having studied its peculiar wants and

cessfully, and to bloom it regularly with the greatest ease, More-

so that all Orchid

requirements, are enabled to grow i

over, plant collectors in Brazil have la

rly sent over large quantities in excellent orde
lovers will now be enabled to po

themselves of so charming a plant

Oncidium crispum may be described as a brilliant and beautiful pseudobulbous stove epiphyte, Tle

pseudobulbs aro about four inche

in length, and. are usually of an oblong shape, stout, furrow
dark bronzy-green colour. "The leaves, which are two or three in number, attain the height of twelve or

hin ales d

eighteen inches, and are Janceclate-ligulate in shape; they partake somewhat, thou

bronzy colour of the pseudobulbs. "The flower spike is produced from the base of the growth ith

nearly reached maturity, and varies from one to nearly three feet in length, bearing a sin

raceme of its lovely blossoms, which measure nearly three inches in diameter,

usually of a rich bronzy-yellow colour, and beautifully curled or wa

same hue, but the centre is marked with a more decided yellow blotch, while the margin is more delicat

al wed

filled. The plant blooms at various times during the year, and continues in perfection for

if ordinary care is bestowed upon its preservation.
This fine Oncid thrives well in the Cattleya house, Tt requires a liberal supply of water to the root
all the year round, I

bein thro

the dull winter mont

should not, however, be allowed
It may be it prefe

able. If grown on a block of wood, live sphagnum moss should be fastened to it in sufficient quantity to

to shrivel throug drou

at any season, or death will certainly ens

rown either in a pot, or in a basket, or on a b

ek of wood, the two latter modes bei

retain a considerable amount of moisture about the roots of the plant. We have, however seen it grovi

most luxuriantly planted in a small quantity of fibrous peat and sphagnum moss, with the addition of a

considerable quantity of charcoal, and suspended in an earthenware basket from the roof of the house at two

or three fect from the glas
"The pla

is increased by division

of the pseudobulbs in the spring. ‘The divided portions should each

or prominent bud having several old growths behind it, a

À they of course require
alittle extra care until they get established.

Insects are very injurious to the plant, and their ravages soon become painfully visible, Extreme vi

Jance is therefore necessary in order to keep the leaves clear of these pests, and this is most easily effected

by frequently washing them with a sponge and tepid water, and by slight funigations

Piare XXVII.

CATTLEYA DOWIANA.

mt epiphyte, with remarkably showy nankeen and purple flowers. ‘The peeudobulbs are stont, club-
long, obtuse leaf, of thick texture, and

A magnifi
shaped, furrowed

atthe top a single, broadly o

a foot long, “The peduncle, which issues from a blunt spathe, bears f six large and very handsome

sessile, smooth and even

flowers, which measure from six o seven inches meros, The sepals are lance

ar. "The petals are ovate, blunt, much waved at the margin, and of the
surely three lobe, oblong-emarginat

at the edge, of a clear nankeen co

ur as the sepals. The lip is very Mm

same peculiar nankeen col

al, entire, and incurred over the eolumn, which

g ofa rich velvety purple, beautifully

very much ersped at the edge, the wh
Tined over with golden veins, اہ‎

Tatter is somewhat arched, and ab 7

Carnera Dowisxa, Bateman, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 180 Ti, Botanical Magazine, t 9618

This is probably the most beautiful of the many gorgeous forms which the genus Cattleya has produced,

licent and lovely as many of them are, It is a native of Costa Rica, and was first discovered by t

luce it in a living state, That honour was reserved for M. Arce,

traveller Warscowiez, but ho failed to in

1 naturalist, who met with it in 1864, and sent it to the collection of the Messrs. Veitch and Sor

‘of Chelsea, with whom it flowered for the first time in 1803. The native specimens bear as many as five or

and. "The name is given in compliment to.

six flowers on a ape, in which state it must be exceed

Captain Dow, an officer in the American Packet service, “as some slight acknowledgment of the many
“ kindne

‘heen so fortunate as to come in his way in their passa

science who have

ance rendered to E

es shown and the frequent ass
along the coasts of the Pacifie:”

ral appearance this fine species somewhat resembles C. liate, although the colour of its

Mowers is very diferent; indeed, in this respect its beauty is peculiarly its own, as will be more readily

ined by a glance at our illustration, which is a faithful representation of a plant which bloomed in the

Broomfield collection.
rowth, usually attaining a

‘The plant now under consideration is compact yet robust in its habit of
sulobullis are stout and furrowed, and support a single oblong,

ıt of twelve or eighteen inches. ‘The p
obtuse, thick, fleshy dark-green leat. ‘The lowers, which are very large, and three to six in number, are

e oblong dark

green spathe. ‘The sepals are strap-

borne upon am erect spike, which proceeds from a la

tals are much broader than the sepals, finely serrated and undulated at

shaped, and tapering toa point; the pe

the edges, and like the sepals of a bright nankeen colours while the Bp is large, the middle lobe spreadi

undated an ground colour a rich deep purple, which is beautifully pencilled with

crisped at the ed

lines, thas forming a splendid contrast with the colour of the sepals and petals.

gol

Cattleya Dowiana blooms usually at the latter end of the summer or the beginning of autumn, and

retains its fall beauty fora considerable time. Tt is easily grown, but requires a little more heat than some of

les in fact, it should be placed in the warmest part of

the other species, C. Ariane and its allies, fore

nd should be potted in good fibrous peat, to which may.

the Brazilian house. Tt requires ample drain

e added with advantage a li

le live sphagnun
and a
ventlysufer t

mos. During the growing season it
g n it enjo
mount of water at the ro genial n mit anything

liber

atmosphere x
Calilegas fr rough over
vent waterlo

jundant watering. Great c
n the heart, amon

tho plant,

ary to pre
indeed in

risk of the life

Like

crificed, in addition to the

The white

other members of the genus, this plant requires to be kept clean,

1d perfectly free from insects,
ale is perhaps the worst enemy to contend with, but a little vigilance on the part of the cult
valor will prevent it from working any serious mischief

Id, however, this pest by any chance
be frequently washed with tepid wate

until the insect
similar cas

fected by division of the plants, taking care to have an eye or
divided portions

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Prare XXVIII

DENDROBIUM JENKINSII.

A very pretty epiphytal orchid, of dwarf stature and tufted habit. "The pseudobulbs are densely ag
creep as often to

furnished with a solitary

rogated on a
fouran

im broad dense masses; they are individually o

4 and
from the base

leathery obtuse or sometimes retuse leaf. The scape spring
bulb, or is either one m
Tange comparatively with the size of the plant, ich golden yellow, with a deeper or orange yellow

the pseud d or supports ۹۹ء‎

me, the flowers themselves being

are inodorona. "le sepals aro orate, considerably smaller than the petals, which, how

form Sepals and petals being obtuse, and of a clear yellow col
encullat, of large size, b

Tip is roundishereniform,

iy pub

undivided, emarginat

and ciliated at the margin.

Drspnomox مت‎ Wall in iteris; Lindley, Botanical Register, 1839, t. ST; Reichenbach fl, Walper? dm

Amongst the many beautiful and varied species of this extensive genus which have from time to time
t1
ic,

lowered in our gardens, that which we now figure, through the Kindnes d Londesborough, is by no,

means the le Tt was originally sent to this country by Dr. N bout 1837, and appears

to have been first lowered in September, 1838, by the Messrs.
B

Botanic Gardens, in November, 1

ige, of Hackney, from whose plant the

ure published in the Botanical Meister was prepared. Dr. Wallich, who nd received it at tho Calcutta

6, from Captain Jenkins—by whom it had been collected at Goalp

(Gualpara), near the Assam frontier —named it in honour of its discovercr, den,

o whom, he says, “ this

the cause of botany, and science generally, are deeply indebted.
Tt will thus be seen that Dendrobium Jenkinsii has long been an inmate of our orchid houses. Never

theless, by some means or other, it has been pushed on one side by many orchid cultivators to make room

for plants of more recent introduction. Now, although we are always glad to receive now and distinct

or varieties, if they are of a really ornamental character, we would fain impress upon the minds of

owers of these charming » our collections any good and distinct

plants the necessity of conserving

is Den)

species, like the present, when once they are obtained; and after the superb condition in which th

llas been exhibited by Lord ugh, through the skilful treatment gi

ond en to it by his gardener,

Dy all, that we have here a plant which is eminently worthy of being

Mr. Denning, it must be admit

xy retained in our orchid houses.

perm
Dendrobium Jenkinsi is نہ‎ clo

e creeping species, of compactgroving habit. Tho pseudobulbs are

usually about an inch long and bluntly four-sided, and they each bear a solitary thick, leathery, deep blu

of about the same length as themselves; these leaves are very persistent, and remain on

green oblong les
it succeeds

the plant for several years. As already mentioned, thisis a plant of creeping habit, and therefore

best the roof of the orehid-house. This indeed,

out block of wood, and suspended frou
was the method adopted by Mr. Dennin

which

rown upon a

in the cultivation of the very f men above alluded to, as

may be seen by a glance at the fi wis our illustration.

we have always found that D. Jenkinsii enjoyed the full heat of the East
well as frequent applications of water from the
an atmosphere well charged with moisture,

As the season advances, and the pseudobulbs attain maturity,
less moisture should b

em to it, and the fall light of the sun (when not too fierce) should be allowed to
fall upon it, in order to concentrate the sap,

Y in other words, to ripen the pseudobulbs tho
Durin

winter the plant may be maintained in a healthy state im a cool temperature, but very little
water must be given while it is kept under these conditions
The flowers are produced from

o sides of the previous years" psendobulbs, sometimes singly, but more
frequently two ti

her on the same stalk, They are very large comp

«d with the size of the other parts
of the plant, are of a soft clear yellow colo

ır, and last from a week to a fortnight in perfection if they are
Placed under conditions suitable to their preservation.

‘The species is not very liable to attacks of insects, but sometimes the scale effects a lodgment upon it,
and should this occur, it must be carefully but promptly removed by washing with tepid water, repeating the
operation until the plant is found to be quite clean, When it is required to effect propagation, it may be

casily carried out by division

Piare XXIX

ELE

LELIA

WOLS

ENHOLMLE.

A magnificent epiphytal orchid, with the general characteristics of Zaia اہ‎

larger size, and its peculiar colouring. Thes

ome fom which it is disti

ishod by its
ms are terete and elongated, thickened upirards so as to become.
and coriaceous. The flowers are upwards of seven inches ere
ne, which is terminal. "The a

white, with a pale parplish-rose margin, The petals are ovate-lano
white with a b

clavate, The leaves, two in number, are o

five or six of them being produced in the rac

ds are

shaped, spredin

Jate, twice the breadth of the sepals, also
rose, which runs out where they narrow to the base. ‘Ihe lip
e the column, 1

nd border of pale p
large, pallid at the base, whe
about the

wasy, and denticulate in front, me
p purple curved blotch, which is continued down the disk towards the bis, and

hront by a rich

has on each side a broad patch of white, while the interior andl marginal portion is of a pale rosy purple, und

marked with numerous deep purple veins

Lau niaoass Wonsresuonsus, Reichenbach fi Gardeners’ Chronic, 1868, 698.

Dr. Hooker,” remarks Reichenbach when first describing this fine variety, * during his Himalayan‏ جا

Vi Rhododendron of all

expedition, from time to time discovered what he believed to be the mo:

he met with a much fin re from time to time make

‘one, so in our Dayan corresponden i the most

lendid Zelia elegans. Just now, we regard this one, the very best of all." We hare not heard that ti

lovely flower has since then been dethroned, unless, indeed, it be in the case of a variety to which the name

of Marshattio has been given, and which is remarkable for the intense rich purple of its lip, and ا‎

sty is named in compliment to Mrs, Wolstenholn, th

prettily-veinel purple petals, The present

of John Day, Esq, who was the first to introduce and to flower it

‘This lovely form of Zaia elegans ranks amongst the rarest and most beautiful of the many imported

varieties of that fine but variable species. he specimen which our artist has rendered so faithfully, we are

ss of W. Marshall, Est, of Enfield, in whose rich collection it flowered

enabled to fi

gure through the kindn

under the care of Mr, Wilton, ‘The plant is in no way different from the o

nal species, as regards its

eral habit, but in the colour of its flowers it differs totally from those of the normal form,

growth and

as will at once be seen by a glance at our illustration, The individual flowers are very large and spreading,
measuring upwards of seven inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are pure white, the former bein
tinted round the edges with purple, while the latter have a broad uninterrupted border of veiny rosy lilac.

e, and deep rosy purple towards the front. The flowers are produced at

‘The lip is large, white at the b
various times during the year, but usually during the autumn months.
"The Zelics comprise some of the most handsome plants which are to b found amongst the now numerous

hey well deserve the attention of all lovers of

and varied species and varieties of cultivated orchids ;

this highly interesting order of plants, They resemble the CaftZeyas in many respects, and have been found.

"Ihe chief distinctive character between the two so-called genera co

to hybridize with th i in- the

a difference which is of so slight a chara

number of their pollen-m »r as to be a matter of little
importance to the amateur

w under notice should be potted in a mixture 1 fibrous pea agnum moss,
must be perfect, and the plants should be elevated above the rim During the
it requires to be watered liberally, and the atmosphere kept well ch

ded, because, when water is applied in this manner, it is ve
if suffered to do so, it causes the stem-like pseudobulbs to rot. After the
is completed, a season of rest will be found advan Dut care must be taken that this is not carried

to such an extent as to cause the newly matured growths to shrivel.

The principal insect enemy which this plant has to contend with is the white scale, which, however,

may easily be kept in check by the frequent washing of the plants whenever these pests put in am
appearance. Propagation is effected by division; but it will be found best to cut partially through the

rhizome some time before the operation is consummated by the separation of the nearly divided portions.

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Prare XXX.

CYPRIPEDIUM VILLOSUM.

leaves, which are longer than the

A handsome terrestrial orchid, of tufted habit, stemless, and producing mum
ower-scapes, ligulate, acute, sharply keeled, leathery in texture, and everywhere green except near the base
دہ‎ the under side, where they are spotted with d m carinate
tos, are abundant each bome singly on a scape which is villous with purple hairs. ‘The dorsal sepalis

ained from the base upwards with

‘purplish dots, The flowers, which emerge

vite, incurred, emarginate, with a blunt, vill

ple; the antical se

broadly

apiculate, of a pale watery g
urplo median in

lines and reticulation of dark

he points, with a brown-

‘The petals are spathulate, undulated, unequalsided, n

greenish, the upper and larger portion rich warm sienna brown with purple lines, the whole

with two eret

the lower portic
yellow suse with

es pale d
and bears near the centre a
A at the base, The

shining as if varnished. The lip is oblor

is obeordate, mucronulat

brownish purple. ‘The sterile stam.

prominent smooth blunt homchke tubercle, "he column, as wol as the petals, is beard

ovary is shaggy with purple hairs.
ple h

Cereris. vaso, Lindley, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1854, 185; Reichenbach and Linden, Pesclora, t. 48; Lemaire,
DMtuatration Horticole, t. 126 ; Van Houtte, Flore den Sere xiva t. UTS.

i species of Lady's Slipper is Moulmein, where it was found by

The native country of this
Mr. Thomas Lobb, at an elevation of 5000 feet above the
Veitch, who exhibited it for the first time at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society in 1854,
tian Medal

, and by him it was sent to the Me

and

biained for it the award of a Silver Kn

Jy interesting genus, and is worthy the attention

Copripedinn villosum is a grand species of a remark
iccous plants, for not only is it extremely handsome and distinct, but it may bo
1

of all lovers of orchi
à

weeks. In general appearance this plant most nea

‘and its flowers retain their full beauty for eight or ten
it is thoroughly

ander side with dark spots, and

ecimen with very little trouble,

resembles O. insigne, but neverthele

distinct. "The leaves are light green, freckled towards the base on the

gih, ‘The scapes are slightly shorter than the leaves, and bear cach a

measuring about twelve inches in le

Josy appearance, as if the surface had

singlo flower, which is about five inches in diameter, and has a

range-brown, intermixed with Tight green and dark

been varnished. "The sepals and petals are of rich

purple. The lip, purplstainel,is of that peculiar sare, oleoso, or slipperdiko formation which has

genus the popular name of Lady's Slipper. ‘The plant from which our illustration was

gained for tl
nfi,

taken, is in our own collection at Bro
‘of decoration in the plant stove, or orchid house, and no

Cypripediums are invaluable as obje

edes. When grown in a

collection which at all sims at completeness should lack some few of the s

cimen for exhibition purposes, blooming as it does throng

the present plant forms a splendid s

ho Hast India house, but after the

the months of April, May, and June. It requires to be grown in
yy be removed to a cooler house if required.

wth is completed, it n

‘The soil which from experience has been found best adapted for it is a mixture of rough fibrous

In potting, it should not be elevated above the rim of the

num moss, and a little silver

peat, sp

»

i»

o "AD.

is the custom with plants of this order which possess peeudobulbe. During the growing season

pot, a
the plant requires a liberal supply of water; and as it requires but little rest, even during the winter

months, it must never bo allowed to get very dry at the roots. Cypripediums, it must be remembered,

have no fleshy peeudobulbs to supply them with nourishment, and therefore they cannot bear up against
excessive drought without injury.
"This plant is liable to be sometimes attacked by the scale insect, and also by a kind of red thrips
which speedily disigures it. "le former may be removed and kept in check by frequent washing
sofesonp and water, and the Tatter by light fumigations of tobacco. When propagation is require

is effeoted by division of the roots

Puare

ONCIDIUM VARICOSUM ROGERSII.

remarkable for the size and number of its large yellow flowers, ‘The peeudobulbs are
late lanceolate eaves,

vir
‘oblong-ovate, somewhat compressed, furrowed, and beating from their apex a pair of

A splendid stove

which are of a dark green colour, a foot long, and terminate in an acute point. The flowers grow in a large

flowers, and is supported on a stout

densely-branchod nodding panicle, which sometimes consists of as many ns 17
scope, which issues from the base of the pseud

wens are very large, the lip being the prominent

ır; the sepals are small, the lateral ones connate (whence this plant
w, with brownishered bars; the petals are also small, and of a similar

md of a clear bright yellow o

comes into the group Tetrapetala), yell
als; the lip is very large, with two smaller curlike basal lobes create in front, an
the front margin into four blunt segments; the colour is
red-brown on the constricted base of the middle lobe,

colour to the se

a very

a paro bright yellow, with a few transverse bars
‘The crests of the lip aro smaller in this variety than in the type. The column has oblong denticulate
Whole-coloured wings

1870, 277, fig. 48; Van Houtte, Flore des
with coloured plates,

Oscrnros. vanıcosun v. Rooms, Reichenbach fl, Gardeners’ Chronici

Serves, xviii., 150, with fig. ; Moore, Florist and Pomologist, 187
Oxer Ro

usn, of gardens.

of Bast

proves to be one of the

This noble species of Oncidium, which was introduced to this country by Dr. Rogers,

Grinstead, Sussex (after whom the name Rogers is applied to it), certainly

finest and most ornamental of the whole g

enus, as the accompanying figure abundantly testifies, From the

s. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, by whom it has been

hands of Dr. Rogers it passed into those of Mes
several times exhibited in very fine condition.

The glorious Mlower-seapes of O. varicosum Rogersii, which, ike O. varicosum itself, is a native of
mbers of this

and upwards. Hence, though there are many fine

Brazil, are frequently three feet Ton

lant-houses, this will always take high rank amongst the most showy and

genus now adorning our p

beautiful. More especially will it be valued by those who lose winter-blooming Orchids, for it is in the

dull days of November and December that it puts forth its much-branched and many-flowered panicle of
pure and brilliant flowers.

Ine
than that variety in all its parts, Its branched spike has been known to bear as many as a hundred and

les O. bifolium majus, but it is much larger

ard to its general habit of growth, this plant resen

‚ach measuring nearly two and a half inches in diameter, so that it may readily be conceived.

seventy flowers
what a gorgeous spectacle a well-grown specimen of it must present. The sepals and petals are small, the
lip being the most conspicuous part of the flower ; this is broad, flat, and spreading, with three deep notches

Reichenbach to be a variety of Oncidium

the plant in question is considered by Profess

in front, Thong
caricomun, yet it is vastly superior to
when well grown than the magnificent spreading panicles which it produces so freely.

it species in every respect; indeed, nothing can be more effective

The genus Oncidium is one of the most extensive amongst cultivated Orchidaceous plants, its species

being confined entirely to the Western Hemisphere, over which, both on the mainland and on the numerous
islands, they are profusely distributed, ‘The variety of which our illustration is a very faithful representation,
flowered for the first time in Europe in the garden of its introducer, Dr. Rogers, in 1868, and subsequently,
in the autumn of 1870, in the establishment of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, who obtained
Dr. Rogers’ plant. We regret to know it is still extremely rare, though it thrives admirably, grown in rough
fibrous peat, and suspended in a basket from the roof of the Cattleya House, that is to say, in a temperature
uring winter of from 65° to 70° by day, and 60° by night. During the summer season it will be
benefited by a higher temperature, say from 70° to 85° by day, and 05° to 70° by night, Great attention
hould be paid to the state of the atmosphere, for, during the growing season, it enjoys abundance of

moisture, while in winter very little will suffice

Like all Oneidiums, this variety is liable to become infested with the white scale insect, which, if allowed
to incre n reduce the plant to bad health. A strict surveillance should therefore be kept to

prevent their effecting a lolgment, An occasional washing with warm water and soft soap will, however,

afe preventivo against these pests, Inerease is effected by division,

be found a

ined the y
۱
e of the kam

Vincent Brooks Day & Sonlmp

Cattleya. Mar ginata,

Lelia pumila.

W.H Fitch del et lith

Phare, 11

LELIA PUMILA.

A charming dwarfhabited stove epiphyte

at beauty, remarkable for its richly-coloured and distinctly-margined

lip

he stems or pseudo

ly furrowed, each bearing a solitary lea The

leaves are oblong, lanceolate, acute, of a deep

ur, and very thick texture. The flowers are solitary,
rarely two together, from the top of the stem, and are lage forthe size of the plant, The sepals are oblong
acuto, the upper one recurved; the petals are broader, oval-oblong, blunt and somewhat wavy,
petals being of a deep purplish liac

oth sepals and

the
lobe roundish,
e, of a rich pure crimson, with a narrow regular border of white, Tho column is two-cared at the

mauve colour; the lip is obovate, with the sides rolled ino
column, whitish with a rich purple crimson blotch near the front, while the midd

apex
Laza resta, Reichenbach fit, Ven Honttis Flore d
Carrisya sra, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 9
Carrara mancrsara, of gardens.

Bisa runa, Reichenbach fl, Walper Annales Botanices Systematic, vi. 421.

Seres, is. 102,
0; Lindley, Botanical Register, 1944, t 5.

von

The Cattleya marginata of gardens, ig to a statement of Dr. Lindley, made thirty years since, in

ilian plant, which had bee

the Botanical Register, is a Br it that time imported from that country,

and which had appeared under that name in the French gardens. The name was unexceptionable, since it

indicated at once the chief peculiarity of the flower, namely, the well-defined and conspicuous border to the

pumila by Sit W. Hooker, and according to

lip. It had, however, been previously named Catt
botanical law, this name must be adopted on the score of priority. Modern botanists have unanimously

the genus Lelia, a genus which includes within its limite species whieh produce

transferred the pl

some of the largest and most beautiful flowers found amongst cultivated Orchids, and though the species

"here represented cannot lay claim to rank amongst the largest flowered of the Lais, it will certainly
hold its own when beauty is made the ground of comparison,

The plant is of a remarkable dwarf, lose, and compact habit, seldom exceeding six or seven inches in
height, so that it is never likely to become too large even for those who have the most limited space for the
Tt should always be grown upon a block of wood, surrounded with
skt, and be

accommodation of their floral pe

ended from the roof. It is a Brazilian plant, and

sphagnum, or in a small wooden b

Aure during the growing season, but in winter a moderate

requires a considerable amount of heat and m
supply of both will sufice. The winter treatment is, however, as we think, the rock upon which many

Orchid growers founder, We have already indicated that it is a sn

Il and sender plant, and in

ion it cannot withstand the drying off to which many of

consequence of this peculiarity of its con
its relatives should be subjected, simply because its stems or pseudobulbs, hare so little substance

on, so that when ag

Ming se

that it should be carefully nursed through the

Henco the nece

excited into growth it may produce flowering shoots, which cannot bo the case, if the pseudobulbs are allowed

e during the vint

to shrivel in the least d

Latia pumila usually produces its lovers during: September and October, though sometimes a little

but always just before the growth is completed; and it lasts a considerable time in full perfection,

if kept from damp
‘The plant from which our illustration was taken bloomed in our own collection at Broomfield, and

Hes ہی ساد چا‎ er pre qv | وو رج وس اصع عو‎ a

pean gardens. We have ourselves mot with it in various collections, bearing the names of Lelia

pumila, Cattleya pumila, Cattleya marginata, and Cattleya Pinelli, these many names perhaps arising from

the fact that it varies considerably in the intensity of its markings, though in all its forms it is exceedingly

beautiful,
We have found this little gem to be very liable to the attacks of white scale, a pest which speedily

works sad havoc amongst it, We therefore advise that a continual watch should be Kept upon the plants,

so that the removal of the insects by the aid of soft soap and warm water may be effected as soon as they

make their appearance, If these conditions are followed, Lelia pumila will not be found more difficult to

manage than its congeners, although from having been neglected, it has obtained, from some orchidologists,

the character of a shy grower. t is increased by division, but there should always be a prominent

eye to every piece, or the mere cutting the plant asunder will be simply destructive to the specimen.

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Puare XXXIII.

DEVALLIA VEITCHIANA.

A dart growin

coolestove plant of extraordinary be

vig, remarkable not only for the singular form of its lowers,

ut for their brilliant and almost indescribable colouring. ‘The plant forms a tufted mass, with short stems, which

support the d * linearoblo

an inch and a half wide, tridentate at the apes, and often
de

jeuous portion of the flower consisting

liy bright-green leaves; these

bluntish, six inches long or more, and about
c The

scapes, which are bracteate in the upper part,

uated towards the b wen are

numerous, fro the stem, solitary on slender erect

the co

almost entirely of the sepaline divi

ıs of the perianth, the
closed in the mouth of the perianth tube. The sepals are connected below into a
y dorsal one broadly ovate with a long caudate point, and the lateral ones larger,
bliquely-ovate, and suddenly narrowed toa point. The colour is very brilliant and remarkable, described as

petals and lip minute bei

ampannlate tube, the up

a splendid saturnine red, a portion of the surface being lashed with a rich velvety purple hue, attributable to

ured pa

ile in those parts in which the fush of purple appears;

aro small, ligulate, whites the lip also is mall violet, with a blackish-vi

is threetoothed, winged, white with a few violet blotches

henbach fil, Gardeners Chronicle, 1868, SIA; Hooker
109, with coloured plate

the presence of innum he petals

+ tubercle at its apex; the column

Botanical Magasi‏ ,1 2 رنه مد

t

Moore, Florist and Pomologist, ل1‎

Tt is a curious fact that, im many instances, the first species of a genus which is introduced to our
h
is certainly no exception to this rule, for we

gardens, ultimately proves ما‎ be the most worthless from a. decorative point of view. ‘The genus to wh

which forms the subject of the annexed plate belong

the spe

have long had such kinds as Masdevallia fenestrata, M. infract and گ2‎ civilis, in our collections; but

their small flow sat inducement to plant growers to add them to their

s and s

nbre colours, offered no

us; although for scientific study these were
who
dress ourselves in these

collections, and consequently Masdevallia was not a popular gen

species equally valuable with their more gaudy and attractive relatives, As, however it is to ama

species their study, that we chielly

make selections from among the most charmi
ow bringing under their notice this superb plant, the singular beauties of.

pages, we have much pleasure in
baffle the skill of the most accomplished artist to reproduce.

which, coupled with its extraordinary colour
them on pape
lusderallias are natives of the humid mountain forests of the Western Hemisphere. The fact that

o be sent through the hot regions in their homeward journey, coupled with another fact, that they

they havo
have no peendcbulbs to support them during their transit, has Ied to the loss of many fine new forms, which

introduce

would now, otherwise, have enriched our Orchid houses. Af. Feitchiana has been successful

horoughly established, and the only other wish we have respecting it is, to seo it more generally dis-

ler consideration is the most

species now ur

tributed throughout the country. It has been said that the

beautiful of the whole genus; bat latterly we have had several dangerous rivals introduced, o that we must

perforce bo content ما‎ sy it is one of tho most beautiful, and certainly one of the largest-lowered of which

as yet wo have any knowledge

re upwards of six inches in height, bearing each a large dark-

‘The stem-like pseudobul

coriaceous leaf, which is from four to six inches in length by about an inch in breadth. The scape, which

is produced from the base of the leaf, is slender, erect, and about a foot high, bearing a solitary flower,

ards of three inches in diameter, and the peculiar contour of which will be best under-

stood by a reference to the accompanying illustration, which was taken from the original plant in the

hment of Messrs, Vei

h and Sons, of

‘Masdecallias when first introduced, were placed in strong heat, a mistake which arose entirely from a

want of knowledge of the peculiar conditions under which they luxuriate in a state of nature. "The con-

on perished. But now that we have, happily, become better acquainted with their

sequence was that they

ies of th

requirements, the various species a is genus have been found amongst the easiest of plants

g, however, must be borne in mind, and that is, that they must not be allowed to

to cultivate. One thi

suffer from dryness, ‘They do not require a season of rest like many Orchids, but on the contrary will

vided for them. This moisture

continue te

grow all the year round, if a genial moist atmosphere is p

luging them with water from the syringe. The drainage

should be produced by condensation, and not b

ursoll to remain

must be kept in perfect working order, for the plants cannot suffer stagnant water or

about them. ‘They should be potted in a mixture of rough fibrous peat, and chopped sphagnum moss, which

derately firm about their roots; whilst to keep the roots moist, and to present a pleas-

should be pressed m

ing surface to the eye, the soil in the pots should be covered with living sph

‘The insect enemies of Mnsderallins are principally green and yellow aphis. These should be washed

ted, as from experience we have

off carefully with tepid water. On no account should the plants be funi;

found that the fumes of tobacco have a deleterious effect upon the majority of cool-house orchids, Slugs

small-shelled snails are, moreover, very troublesome enemies, and should be carefully searched for,

in the autumn, and if it be Kept free from damp, the

‘The usu

blooming season of this plant

also seen it lowering in the months of April

rable timo in full perfection; but wo ha

flowers Inst a co

s. Tt is a native of the Cordileras of‏ را

May, when it forms a splendid object purp

Peru,

ailias are increased by division of their stem-like pseudobulbs, but a young shoot or leading

growth should be left to each division, or litle will be gained by the operation.

XXXIV.

LELIA ANCEPS DAWSONI.

wers with a very richly-marked lip. Tt ha
Lance, but somewhat more ein

A charming stove epiphyte remarkable, as a variety, for its whit
like those

dark green, ligulate-lanceolate, corio

jonl in outline, The lenves aro
vs, resembling those of Z. anceps, ‘The f

ی orata‏ سان

nd bears two three or more large showy flowers, resembli

three fe in form those of the type

ld broad ovate petals are w

aro the lateral lobes which envelope the column.
face of the side lobes is yellowish, marked with rich crimson lines radiating from the
isk, the front pe

The lip on the inner eu

» callus on the

disk, and has the usual y wards

n being undulated and recurved, purple

the extremity, but with a distinct margin of whit

Lætta averss Dawsost, Anderson, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1868, 27 ; Reichenbach fil, Gardeners Chronicle, 1878, 253.

This Lelia, which is one of the most beautiful introductions of modern times, bloomed for the first

time in Europe in the magnificent collection of the late Thomas Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank, near
Glas

orchidophilist, the publication of this figure may help to pe

most enthusiastic and munificent

w, to whom it was thereupon dedicated, and wh

petuate, The plant is a native of Mexico, and

ja elevation, about 150 miles from Oajaca,

was found in 1865 by Mr. Low's collectors near Inquila, at a

¡ca sheltered on all sides by mountains, on rocks by the side of a running stream, a locality

in a bam

the d

which was remarkable for its extremes of temperature, being very warm during y, and very cold at

night. Very few plants of it were discovered.

ration is taken, bloomed in our own collection at Broomfield, and was

he specimen from which our ilus

much admired by all who saw it. The variety differs in no respect from the normal state of the species,
saving in the colour of its flowers, and these, it will be seen at a glance, are totally distinct. Like its

prototype, the plant bloo the dull months of December, January, and February, and is on this

o winter flowers, ‘The blossoms last some three or four weel

account invaluable to those who love chas
full bea
that orchids when in flower should be kept in too dry an atmosphere, because they are apt to shrivel up,

if they are not sprinkled with water from the syringe; on the other hand, we do not advise

pars rather

while the moisture which falls upon the flowers through condensation does not injure, but a

to benefit them.
ind are thick and waxy in texture, The

ogether on long stems,

‘The flowers are produced several

ds and petals are pure white. ‘The lip is white exteriorly, but within the white ground is streaked with

radiating lines of purple, the centre or disk being omamented with ridges (calli) of bright yellow, while

tained with rich purple, as well as marginod with white.

towards the front it is

Leia Dawsoni may be either grown in a pol, or upon a block of wood. We, however, prefer the

former. The soil should consist of sphagnum moss, and rough fibrous peat, from which the finer particles

have been removed, and to which a little sharp silver sand has been added. "Tho pots require to be well

‘The plant succeeds admirably in the Cattleya House, and

drained, and the spe firmly potted
should receive similar treatment to that which we have before recommended for its various member,
saving that it enjoys more than others a greater amount of exposure to the sun, during summer, and it
may be removed into a cooler house when at rest, if it is desirable to retard its flowers.

If neglected, the plants will become infested with both white and brown scale, but occasional wash-

ings with soft sonp and tepid water will keep them free from such pe

XXXV.‏ سط

BATEMANNIA BURTIL

A strikingly distint and effective stove epiphyte, fon
and remarkable bı

ing a distichous tuft of leaves, amo

ig which appear the large
wn and yellow f nt The leaves are oblong ligulate

Wm The plant ia sube
ling fo

more, with roots سر‎ between the lowermost. The flowers are three

inches across, and grow singly from the leafaxils on peduncles a

bout half the length of the leaves The sepals
m in size, form, and colour; they are triangular-oblong,

base yellow

with some brownish mark iid

of a rich

the upper سوه‎
markings, the two petals having in addition

m with brownishyellow chequen

ge dark-brown radiating b
trowel-shaped, white in the lower hal, dark dull bı
temilunar bwo-lobed white auricl

eh at the base. The lip is claw

wn with darker spots in front, the claw bearing transverse

‘nt into ncurved setiform dark purple teeth, The column is white tipped

ın, hooded, with a dorsal keel, the margins and narrow wi 7

Barmassıa Bust, Endres and Reichenbach fil, Gardeners Chronicle, 1572, 1009; Hooker Ji, Botanical
Magazine, t. 6003.

m

illustrate, is a native of Costa Rica, where it was discovered so long since as June, 6

very remarkable plant, belonging to a genus which we have not previously had the opportunity to

dy Mr. Endres,

At first Professor Reichenbach, to whom specimens were sent for examination, regarded it as a variety of

Batemannia meleagris, bat the materials subsequently obtained led him to adopt the opinion of its discoverer

that it had full claim to rank distinctness of

garden plant, its great beauty and thoro
spect and character will render it welcome to al
loice and valuable collection of

‘The plant from which our figure was taken, flowered in 1872, in the c
W. Burnley Hume,
our illustrations of select orchids, Hitherto the plant would soem to have formed no pseudobulbs

q, Winterton, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of introducing it

"The leaves are arranged in a distichous manner, and vary from twelve to fifteen inches in length, and from

one to two inches in breadth. The lowers are produced singly, upon erect peduncles, and measure about

three inches in diameter; they are thick and fleshy in texture, attractive in colouring, and last for a

considerable time in full beauty

genus have from time to time been placed in other genera, such as

The species which constitute th

Huntleyo, Zogopetalun, ec, and from which indeed they do not differ materially in general appearance

r cool treatment; but the species now before us, which isa native of

Costa Rica, thrives best when placed at the warmer end of the Cattleya House. The soil should he good

fibrous peat; and although it is a plant which delights in an abundant supply of water, none should
p D i pp

be allowed to remain stagnant about the roots; the drainage must consequently be kept at all times in a.
‘thoroughly efficient condition
Batemonnia Burti is not peculiarly liable to the attacks of insects, but like all orchidaceous plants it

is sure to bocome infested with scale, unless due and careful attention is given to washing it with tepid
water and soft soap.

It is at present a very rare plant im collections, but where tho nay be increased by
division, the best plan being to allow the eyes to swell up after the b | before the

plant is further disturbed,

Puwre XXXVI

CATTLEYA EXONIENSIS.

A magnificent stove epiphyte, of hybrid origin, remarkable for the rich colour

of its lip. The stems or pseudo-

ating in a solitary oblong ligulate obtuse fleshy leat The

inorescence consists of an erect raceme of four or five lange and strikingly beautiful flowers, The seal
ate-hnceolate, plane

bulbs are terete and somewhat club shaped, term

ed at the dip, an the petals ao Brad
poinh, leg ulated et rie at tho eg bath pole ate don
io Ys سا‎ ot Inte part deapiy weed on at ا‎

ate-oblong, attenuated at the

blush tint. he lip is cordate

with crimson, the orange yellow

being continued as far as the month of the folded portion, the large front I
waved, its apical half sich purplish Mocd-erim

expanded, and. charmingly
with a distinct border
and the yellow is a transverse band of white; the richly

the cris tion of the lip is more

over distinctly marked with darker lines, and has a velveilike surface,

Carrara همه‎ Reichenbach fl, Gardeners Chronicle, 1867, 1144; Jennings’ Orchid, 1

Lui ودوج‎ Hort, Veitch. olim

‘This, which is one of the most beautiful of orchids, is a hybrid variety of garden origin, ho

raised by Mr. Dominy, in the c
Cattleya Mossie with Lelia pu

lishment of Messrs. Veitch and Sons. Tt was obtained by en
rata, the later bei

he pollen parent; and charming as these two fine
orchids are known to be, it is not too much to say that the progeny fully equals if it does not excel, them,
while it is abundantly distinct from either.

The

mus Cattleya has of late years becom

e of the most popular amo

cultivators of

aceous plants, and deservedly so, since it contains a vas
T plants,

number of species and varieties the greater

portion of which produce large and richly-o
fi

own under the shade of vines, so that am

oured flowers. Another consideration which lus, no doubt,

been influential in their favour, is the fact that many of them are amenable to cool treatment, and may

be successful

urs, who have a vinery at their command,

may, with a Title care, not only enjoy the beauties of these showy flowers, but in addition secure over

head fine crop of the most luscious g

‘The plant, of which our illustration affords an excellent picture, flowered in the establishment of

Messrs, Veiteh and Sons, of Chelsea, to whom indeed, as above stated, we are virtually indebted for its origi

tion, since it is a garden hybrid, raised in their nursery. Certainly it yields to none of the imported species

or varieties in the richness and delicacy of its marking

‘The flowers are freely produced, and are very
large; the sepals and petals are broad and of a soft rosy-lilac colour; the lip is much enlarged in front,
ined with sof

and of an intense rich velvety purple crimson, whilst the throat is lden yellow. Tt

he autumn and winter months. We

but mostly during w a magnificent

blooms at various

example of this plant in the fine collection of the late Thomas Dawson, Esq, of Meadow Bank,

w, where, under the care of Mr. Anderson, it was flourishing in robust health, and had

xty of its superb flowers expanded at one time,

Cattleyas, with but few exceptions, thrive best under pot-culture, and require abundance of drainage.

o sil should consist of good fibrous peat, from which all the loose material has been shaken out

should be added a small portion of chopped sphagnum moss; the whole should be pressed together firmly

and the plant elevated upon a little cone of

the use of the syringe may be dispensed with, except that on hot summer even

ulvantageousy given with a syringe having much smaller apertures than those usually employed—so small
indeed that the fine spray may fall on the leaves in the form of heavy mist rather even than as fine rai
When the growth is eo plants should be subjected to a e st, by withholding wate
lowering the temperature, but this treatment should not be carried to an extremo, or their constitution will
be greatly injured, and instead of starting vigorously into growth, they will be found to push out weakl
shoots. This drying off should not be continued if the slightest appearance of shrivelling, either in the
pscudobulbs or leaves, sets in.

Cattleyes are subject to the attacks of white scale and red thrips if allowed to accumulate, will
poodily disfigure their fli former may be yay by frequent washings or spongings with tepid

water and a little softsoap whilst upon the first appearance of the lait footed places should be

1 washed daily until the last

Increase is effected in the usual way by division, care being taken that the dividing process is not

carried to exc

XXXVII

RENANTHERA COCCINEA.

did store epiphyte, of the Vande

oup of Orchids, remarkable for its root-hearing and distichously-leafy
stems, and its panicles of rich blood-red flowers, of a tawny orar
ahora

the outer surface. The stem is nearly

s thick as one's little finger, tall and climbin by its thick whitish fleshy roots to any supporti

body. The Teaver are lorate or linear

ow in panicles which issue from the sides of the stem among:

keeled midrib, The flowers

t the leaves—not
us, and the panicles themselves more or less branched, and

ape supporting it being glab

bearing many large showy flowers. The lateral s
bluntly lanee-shaped, of a rather de

als are broader than the dorsal one, clawed, undulate and
mt dull orange-red, bl

tched with maroon-erims
with the petals is narrower, of a lineatspathulate form, scarlet, marked with yell

the upper sepal,
bands; while the lip, which

is much smaller and sessile, hs a conical crimson sacate spur near the baso, th

anterior portion bei
and the middle lobe linguiform and

not winged, orange-red,
jose pollen masses, which are two-

lobed, with the lateral lobes truncate, yellow, streaked with scale

reilexed, scarlet, with f yellow at the bue, The column is semiter

marked with yellow, with sub-hemispherical red anthers and two

lobed behind.
exasrtina cocon
Botanical May
Botanies Syetematia, v 815.

Lindley, Botanical Register, 1131: Hooter,‏ :7ت Loureiro, Flora Cochinchinensis, ii.‏ بد
e 08; Parton's Magazine of Hi‏

tany, iv. 49; Reichenbach, in Walpers’ Annales

‘This plant is now an old inhabitant of our Orchid-houses, having been introduced to this country about
1816. Tt is familiarly, known amongst orchid growers as the Chinese Air-plant, which name has led

many amateurs to regard it as a native of the Celestial

Empire, instead of which it is rell

ligenous to
Cochin China, a country which any enterprising collector would find it worth his while to explore, as it

many fine plants which would prove extremely ornamental in our Bi

contain

pean hothouses. ‘The
no doubt cultivated by the Chinese, as Sir W. Hooker mentions having himself
received fine specimens from Canton; and adds that a very faithful representative of the plant occurs amongst

Renanthera is, however

a set of Chinese drawings received from another correspondent at the same place. Tn this country it was
flowered at Claremont, in 1897,

mus very nearly allied to Vanda, its chief d

Renanthera is a netion consisting in its having a
jointed lip, with the spur in the middle, instead of the lip being adherent with a saccate base. There is

also inequality in the size of the sepals and petals.

deration is a plant of rapid growth, and, it must be confessed, of a

"The species now under co
somewhat straggling habit; but as it produces great quantities of aerial roots from its stems, it may be eut.

test injury whenever it becomes either too tall or unsightly from the los of its bottom.

down without the
ily kept within the limits of even a small house. Tho stem is terete.

leaves, and thus treated it may be ea
"The leaves are arranged in a distichous or two-ranked manner, and are about five inches in length by an

it the apex, and coriaceous in texture, "Ihe flowerspike, which

inch in breadth, linear-oblong, emarginata

is produced from amongst the leaves, becomes a much-branched and many-flowered panicle. "The individual

flowers measure upwards of two inches in diameter; tho dorsal sepal and the petals are somewhat narrow,

with a ground colour of deep red, slightly mottled with pale orange ; the lower sepals are broader than the

y deep scarlet; the lip is small, the side lobes and front of its middle lobe deep crimson,

petals, and spathul

basal portion of the middle lobe white. ‘The specimen which Mr. Fitch has here so faithfully repre-

sented, flowered in the Victoria Nursery, Upper Holloway, during the past season; its first flowers opened

in the month of February, and it continued in full beauty for upwards of three months.

Although extremely beautiful when in lower, and lasting in perfection for such a length of time, it is

a plant not looked upon with much favour by the majority of Orchid growers. This is probably to be

he truth of which

accounted for b

we are bound in some degree to admit. Nevertheless, it takes up such a small space in the Orehid=house,

h y length of time

and is so beautiful withal, that the patience of those who cultivate it is amply repaid for

which may elapse before the desired aim is attained.
Mor

eat con

over, there are conditions under which it flowers freely, for a splendid exa

rvatory at Chatsworth has, we are informed, not been out of blossom f

There it exhibit a preference to grow on birch stems, Probably, like some well-known climbers, it

requires age and development to enable it to flower freely

"The general treatment required by this plant differs but little from that laid down by us previo

the cultivation of Vanda tricolor or V. insignis. Tt should be potted in good living sphag

well drained; and during the sammer season it must be treated liberally to

pots having boen previous

on account of the leathery

revels in strong heat, and.

water, both from the watering-can and

am tho Vandas

texture of its aves, it can withstand with impunity more exposure to the sun's ra

mel. During winter little or no water should bo

previously
be

by the shrivelling of is leaves; a condition to which, in our opinion, no orchidaceous plant should

tin there ean be no doubt that the plants are losing vigour daily, and

brought, for when such symptou
owth, at the very least, must follow. Our maxim, therefore, is always to give this plant a

weakly

thorough rest, but not to carry the drying off to such an excess as to exhaust the system and bring about

the shrivelling of the fola

Wo have found this plant peculiarly free from the attacks of insect enemies, but occasionally the red

thrips and the scale will seize upon it, and speedily render it an eyesore, Upon the first appearance of either

ts should be washed with a weak solution of Gishurst compound. "Ih

of these pests the affected pa
material, though very strong, may be applied to this plant without risk, on account of the leathery texture
ofits foliage, but there are very few members of this order to which we would adiise its application.

ls

pieces, whilst if a prominent eye or young shoot accompany each piece, the process is rendered both quicker

by cutting the stems into

i be increased by division of the plant, and.

Renanthera coccinea n

and more certain.

Prare XXXVIII.

ODONTOGLOSSUM VEXILLARIUM.

A cool stove epiphyte of remarkable beauty, belonging to the Vand
for the l

ally notable

roup of Orchids, und es

ms class,
The
at the back, equitunt at the base, and with an.

coloured lowers. The plant

the pseudobulbs being narrowly oblong and compressed and from an inch and a half t
narrowly elliptic!
lender, lor

| iu the leaves, several being frequently produced from the

oblong, acute or ot

lbs: they support racemes of three or four very large

four inches long, with quite dat, Tho sepals are nearly equal, obovate
Jour paler at
are sometimes larger sometimes smaller, aro of nearly the same fom

the perianth spread o
t recurrel, of a delit

somewh

edge, The petals, which

pal, but more acute, and of a

nish in outline, deeply two-
ig lobe
streaked with red; it

rot, narrowed to a claw at the base, where it is extended into a pair of ovate acute ascendi itis

ft rose, paler at the e white and pale y

901; 70.181:
Llllustration ماما1‎ thin series,

bears a small two-lobed callus at the very bae, close to the sh

sem >> ونس‎ fil, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 18
| 1573, 580, 044, fg. 1285 Moker fil, Botanical Magazine, ٤
| £ 113; Flore des Seres, t 2058

merous us have been the additions during the past few years to this now popular and very extensive

genus, the fact that such a splendid species as the one now under consideration should have remained

unknown to the horticultural world until last year is a sufficient proof that we have by no means exhausted
the store which nature has provided for our enjoyment.

Orchids, and certainly its beauty places
w Gren

pears to have been fist found by the lato Mr. Bowmann ; it

Odontoglossum vezillarium has been called the queen amon

whence so many fine

it in the highest rank amongst these regal plants, It is a nat

ornamental plants have been derived, and

ndition, by Mr, Wallis when collecting for Mr.

absequently sent to Europe alive, but in a dying co

Linden; and next, also in a moribund state, by Mr. Roca; finally, the Messrs, Veiteh and Sons, of Chelse
their collector, Mr. H. Chester
o bloomed splendidly in the fine

and it is from the plants so

received a supply of living plants theo

obtained that the first flowering specimens were exhibited. It has a

collection of T. Branton, Esq, The Ferns, Beckenham, under the skilful treatment of Mr, Henley, with
whom this species together with the whole of its confrères thrives admirably. The peculobulbs are

attaining a length of from one to two inches, or even more in vigorous

oblong and compre
es, which vary from six ما‎ twelve inches in length, and are

examples. ‘They bear narrowly-lanceolate le

pale green in colour, Tt will thus be seen that the plant now under notice is a somewhat vigorous gr
era flowers, which are white, suffused with soft

| "The flover-seape is longer than the leaves, and be:
rance the

deep rose both in the sepals and petals, as well as in the large two-lobed lip. In general ap
flowers very much resemble those of somo Miltonia, and they are assuredly the largest of any known species

of Odontoglossum.
his charming plant as it was flowered, in 1873, by S.

Our illustration represents the best variety of
Rucker, Esq, of Wandsworth
Like all the rest of the
numerous Odontoglossuns have been f

nus, it is a mountain plant, for as far as we

md at a low elevation, The species now under consideration

da. Nevertheless, we have

of the Andes, of New Gre

Tuxuriates in various places on the western sl

found that in cultivation the plant thrives better when treated to a slightly warmer here than i
kinds as O, Alezandra, O. Pescatorei, ctc, in which it resembles 0.

ultivation should consist of good fibrous peat and sph in equal part
surface our Odontoglossums with living sphagnum, which not only presents a neat, clean,

ppearance, but the f kept in a growing condition, always maintains a nico genial moistu

wlich are sure to be found spreading through it, One of the close-growing e

pact species of

vonge, is the most suitable if it can be obtained.
Odontoglossum vezillarium does not appear t

have any peculiarity in the way of disease or in regard to
the attacks ofinsects, but, like all others of

is genus, it is liable to the intrusion of yellow fly, and these
must be carefully Washed off with clear water, which should always be of about the same temperature as
the house, Above all things it should be borne in mind that tobacco smoke is highly injurious to all the
members of this genu

may be propagated by division, but care should be taken to have a prominent eye upon each piece,

or the result of dividing the old tuts may be a decrease rather than an increase.

Puare XXXIX,

VANDA TRICOLOR WARNERI

A magnificent stove epiphyte of the Vandeous group of Orchids, forming a wellnarked variety of one of the most
striking species of its genus In the type the stem is stontish and root
lorate channelled leaves in a distichous or two-anked manner. Tn this variety
and erosely and obliquely lobed at the apex. ‘The comparativ

he leaves are strongly ribbed,
o lowers grow

large, numerous, and h

fn drooping racemes, and are supported on long clavate striated ovaries, which resemble füverstalls, The
sepals are obovate, narrowed to the base, undalated at the margin, white at the back, ich yellow on the
face, with Blood-coloured spots and streaks. ‘The petals are somewhat smaller, but of nearly the same form,
and of a similar colour to the sepals. ‘The lip, which, like the other parts of the flower, is thick and leathery,
is about as long as or longer than the sepals, oblong cordiform, or almost rate, being three-lobed, with the side
lobes rounded, and the middle one oblori convex, and somewhat dilated and emarginate at the apex; it is of
a purplish rose, paler and becoming white at the base, the disk marked with elevated lines and streaks, ‘The

column is short and stout

iter, 1947, under t 59; Id. Parton's Flower Garden, t. 42; Id: Folia
t Vanda, No. 10; Walpers Annales Botanico 8

Vasa maicoron, Lindley, Botanical Re
Orchidneen,

— Van. Want: distinguished by its stronglyribbed leaves and by the colouring of the tomers; the sepals
ich deep rosy purple

ond petals distinctly margined with deep rose, and the lip of a

Vasa rmicouon Waren (tab, xxxix, annexed.)

species of Vanda, the varieties of

is a very beautiful variety of a well-known and charming

This

which are somewhat numerous. They all, however, have their admirers, for whilst it is the peculiar

colouring in one form that captivates the eye, in another it is the broad petals and bold individual flowers;
and thus it happens that between them the peculiar tastes and fancies of each and all are gratified.

a native of Java, is from our own

‘The variety which we now have the pleasure of figuring, and which i

sion of

collection at Broomfield, where it is a great favourite, since it may not only lay claim to the po

soms are not spotted with sprinklings from

great beauty, but it also flowers most profusely, while if its bl
i
home decorative plant, but at the same time renders it extremely valuable for exhibition purposes. Tt mi

enhances ita value as a

the syringe ins many weeks in full beauty. ‘This latior peculiarity not only

rs by its peculiar ribbed leaves, and by the distinct markings of its

de distinguished from all its compe
depicted in the accompanying illustration.

flowers, which are admirabl
‘The great influx of American Orchids during the past few years has had somewhat the effect of
pushing out of notice the distichous Bast Indian kinds, We are, however, able to observe that the excite-
g to their old loves, Indeed,

without wishing for a moment to depreciate any of the lovely plants of the Orchid family, or to set up

rotura‏ متحي

nd Orchid growers are

ment is now in some measure abated,

and why this truly ornamental section of Orchids

under

one class in rivalry to another, we cannot at
iir lovely lovers, the long arching

should ever have fallen into disrepute. Independent altogether of t

1 ornaments to the plant stove, and the same remark

deep green leaves of the anda, render them splen
will apply to most of the species of Saccolabium and Aërides.

icy now under consideration is a profuse bloomer. It wil

o already remarked that the va

We hav
recommend itself the more surely to al lovers of these noble plants from its succeeding far better

in is usually considered necessary to the well-being of Bast Indian Orchids

under a cooler treatment th

in general, and those from the Indian Archipelago in particular

In the cultivation of this, as indeed of all other orchidaccous plants which have no peendobulbs to

support them during the season of drought, care must be taken that the plants do not suffer from want of

during the winter months, and the atmosphere should

water, Less of this element is certainly
then be kept di
takes place the bottom fol

nevertheless water must not be withheld until the leaves become flaccid, for when this

t. Tt therefore behoves

is sure to fall off, to the disfigurement of the pl

1

very closely, in order to prevent any damage from this source to the symmetry of the specimens.

the cultivator of Vandas, whilst allowing them just to feel the influence of the dry season, to watch them

‘This plant may either be grown in a basket and suspended from the roof, or in a pot, in the usual style

adopted for the various members of this order. We prefer the latter system, because it displays the
p p

graceful habit of the plant to tho greatest advantage, whilst Jess care in nursing and less trouble
y at the
‘The red thrips and the scale, moro especially the former, if allowed to establish themselves, soon commit

he fol

Particular, the plants should be taken out and carefully washed with soft soap and tepid water, and then

d, the plants be ame time les liable to sudden changes.

std havoc upon

ge of audas. Upon the faintest sign of the attacks of these insects, the thrips in

the axils of the leaves should be dusted with tobacco powder; this operation must be repeated about every
second or third

until the pest is exterminated, We have seen fumigation recommended, but this when

done in moderation we have never found to be successful, whilst when the house has been heavily charged

with smoke, we have found it led to the loss of the bottom

ige, so that the remedy proved as bad as

ing with tobacco powder preferable, Should

the disease; therefore it is that we think the washing and du

they may be got rid of easily by washing the leaves with a sponge and soft

the scale attack these pl

soap, as before mentioned, tal o all that can be seen,

care to dilod

J£ young plants are required, the offsets which spring from the base may be separated when they have

made a few roots, tho spring being the best season of the year in which to perform the operation.

Fore