Identifier: floralcabinetmaIIIKnow (find matches)
Title: The floral cabinet and magazine of exotic botany
Year: 1837 (1830s)
Authors: Knowles, G. B. (George Beauchamp), 1829-1852 Westcott, Frederic, -1861 Baxter, W. Henry, former owner. DSI Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI Bradbury & Evans, printer Day & Haghe, printer of plates
Subjects: Plants, Ornamental Plant introduction Botanical illustration Botany Gardening
Publisher: London : William Smith
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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continue to separate repeatedly until is formed a cyme of nineinches in length and six in diameter. During the development of the inflorescence, an innumerable quantity ofdark brown scales are thrown off, which give it an appearance very different fromany species we have hitherto seen. It is a native of Mexico, and was found by Mr. Ross, the collector ofG. Barker, Esq., of Springfield, on the Trapean Mountains, from whence theroots were imported in 1837. One of these roots was liberally presented by Mr.Barker to the Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. From thisplant, (which has just flowered,) our drawing has been taken. The leaves andfleshy crown of the root, it will be perceived, are much diminished in size. For cultivation, it requires a cool stove, and the only mode of increase thathas yet occurred is by cutting out the buds formed on the fleshy root, with aportion of the root attached to them, which will soon root when planted in sand.The soil should be peat and loam.
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181 ONCIDIUM ORNITHORYNCHUM. (Birds-beah Oncidium.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. GYNANDBIA MONANDRIA. ORCHIDACEiE § VANDE^E. GENERIC CHARACTER.Oncidium (Swartz.) Perianthium explanatum. Sepala ssepius undulata; lateralibus nuncsub labello connatis. Petala conformia. Labellwm maximum ecalcaratum cum columna conti-nuum, varie lobatum, basi tuberculatum vel cristatum. Columna libera, semiteres, apice utrinquealata. Anthem semi-bilocularis, rostello nunc abbreviate), nunc elongato rostrato. Pollinia 2,postice sulcata, caudicula plana, glandula oblonga.—Herbse epiphytas, nunc pseudobulbosse.Folia coriacea. Scapi paniculati vaginati, rarius simplices. Flores speciosi, lutei, ssepius macu-lati, raro albi. Perianth explanate. Sepals more frequently undulate; the lateral ones sometimes connatebeneath the labellum. Petals similar in form. Labellum very large, spurless, continuous withthe column, variously lobed, tuberculated or crested at the base. Column free, semiterete, withthe apex wing

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