Orchid Album (Volume 4); Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants. Books Group
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI. [plate 175.] Native of New Grenada. Epiphytal. Pseudobxdbs stout, ovate, slightly ribbed, diphyllous. Leaves lorate acute, plane, narrowed to the base, keeled behind. Peduncles springing from the axil of accessory leaves, supporting an erect, diffuse, many-flowered panicle, two to three feet long, of numerous charmingly-tinted blossoms, which have small ovate scarious bracts at the base of their pedicels. Flowers rather large and of semitransparent texture, white, delicately flushed with rosy purple, and having a yellow blotch at the base of the lip; sepals ovate oblong, apiculate, slightly undulated, spreading, over an inch long, white, with a bar of delicate rosy purple down the -entre of each; petals similar to the sepals in outline, but much broader, and more distinctly undulated, pure white; lip white, stained with yellow at the base, cordateoblong, subpandurate, cuspidate, the margin crispy, the base denticulate, the disk bearing two broad lacerated lateral appendages, which are closely striated with crimson, and between them a yellow crest, consisting of two divergent lamellae, which are toothed at the apex and marked by one or two small red spots. Column white, with a pair of short lacerated wings, which are stained with crimson. Odontoglossum Pescatorei, Linden, Catalogue; Id., Pescatorea, t. 1; Lindley, in Paxton's Flower Garden, iii., t. 90; Id., Folia Orchidacea, art. Odontoglossum, No. 56; Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, iv., t. 331; Bateman, Monograph of Odontoglossum, t. 5; Warner, Select Orchidaceous Plants, 1, t. 23. Odontoglossum Nobile, Reichenbach ssl., Linn a, xxii., 850. There is no doubt the species we now bring before our subscribers is one of the most useful and beautiful of Orchids, one of those..
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