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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cteas acuminate, equal in length to the pedicels. Sepalsand petals linear-lanceolate, exceedingly acuminate, undulate, of a greenish-yellow, marked withbrown. Lip cordate, acuminate, white, the margin minutely spotted with brown, This elegant species of Odontoglossum, a native of Mexico, is in the collectionof Geo. Barker, Esq., of Springfield, by whom it was imported, and from whoseplant our drawing was made in the summer of last year. 38 ODONTOGLOSSUM CORDATUM. This species should be kept in a hot and humid stove during the growingseason, and have plenty of water. When dormant it ought to be placed in acooler and dryer house. It should be potted in rough sandy peat, mixed withplenty of drainers, using a large portion of them near the bottom of the pot.Increased by division. The generic name, Odontoglossum, is derived from obovs, a tooth, and ykaxraa,a tongue, alluding probably to the crest of the labellum. The specific name,Cor datum, refers to the heart-shaped form of the labellum.
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TRICHOPILIA TORTILIS. ( Twisted Trichopilia.)LINNEAN SYSTEM. NATURAL ORDER. GYNANDRIA. ORCHIDACE^. GENERIC CHARACTER. Trichopilia (Lindl.) Sepala et petala sequalia patentia angusta. Labellum magnum peta-loideum convolutum cum columna parallelum trilobum, lobo intermedio subbilobo planiusculointus nudo. Columna teres clavata. Clinandrium cucullatum 3-lobum villoso-fimbriatum.Anthera 1-locularis compressa, antice convexa. Pollinia 2 postice sulcata, caudiculce tenuicuneatae adherentia; glandula minima. Pseudobulbi carnosi vaginis maculatis supertecti mono--phylli coriacei. Flores solitarii axillares.—Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 2nd. edit. p. 446. Sepals and petals equal, patent, narrow. Labellum large, petaloid, convolute, parallel withthe column, three-lobed, the intermediate lobe somewhat two-lobed, smoothish, inwardly naked.Column round, club-shaped. Clinandrium cucullate, three-lobed, villosely fringed. Anther one-celled, compressed, convex in front. Pollen-masses two, sulcate

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