The orchid-grower's manual - containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants (1885) (14790567493)

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Title: The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Benjamin Samuel, 1822-1890
Subjects: Orchids
Publisher: London : Victoria and Paradise Nurseries
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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ANGE^CUM. 117 with a triangular apiculus in the notch, and an erect conicalspur, as long as the sepals.—Loanjo, W. Africa. YlG.—Garten-Ztitung, 1882, 434, fig. 102. A. Ellisii, Williams.—This beautiful species was intro-duced to this country by the late Rev. W. Ellis, whose nameit bears, and is undoubtedly one of the finest species we havein cultivation. The leaves are distinctly arranged in a dis-tichous manner, and about ten inches in length, broadlyligulate, dark green on the upper side, paler below, anddeeply and unequally bilobed at the apex. The flowers growin arching racemes two feet long, bearing from eighteen totwenty-four flowers, pure Avhite and very fragrant, the sepalsand petals reflexed, and the spur of the lip of a light cinna-mon colour and six inches long. The profile of the floweris an exact resemblance of a cockatoo. It requires the tem-perature of the East Indian house.—Madagascar. Fig.—Floral Mag., N.S., t. 191; Gard. Chron., N.S., iii. 277, fig. 54. A,