Identifier: orchidgrowersman00inwill (find matches)
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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ii. t. 51; Lem. Jard. Fl, t.158; Smith, Exot. Bat., t. 98. Stn.—Ccelogyne humilis; Epidendrum humilis. P. tiumilis tricolor, Rchb. /.—A pretty and distinct form,in which the sepals and petals are pale rose colour, and thelarge expanded frilled lip is pale yellow, distinctly streakedwith brownish yellow in the central part, the outer portionsbeing margined with transverse blotches of the same colour.It flowers in January and February.—Indian Alps.Fig.—Orchid Album,m. t. 102. P. lagenaria, Lindley.—A very handsome brilliantly-coloured dwarf species, with clustered wrinkled broadlyflask-shaped pseudobulbs, which are flattened below the )49 conical neck, and are light green covered with brown spots,which give a netted appearance to the surface; these aresurmounted by a solitary lanceolate leaf, which becomesmatured and falls away before the flowers are developed.The flower scapes spring from the base of the pseudobulbs,and are about three inches high, bearing a solitary blossom
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PLEIONE LAGENAEIA. three inches across ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate,spreading, lilac rose, and the lip is white or whitish, convoluteat the base, the large expanded front lobe emarginate, thecentral part yellow traversed by five bearded ridges, and thebroad margin much crisped, white with transverse bars and 550 orchid-growers manual. blotches of deep purple-crimson ; the throat is yellow with afew crimson stripes. It flowers in January and February,when the other kinds are over, and continues a long time inperfection, if the blossoms are kept dry.—Mountains of India. FlG.—Bot. Mag., t, 5370; Paa-^. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 39, fig. 2; lllust. Hort,t. 510; Flore des Serres, t. 2386 ; Lem. Jard. Fleur., t. 93; Jennings, Orch.,t. 47, fig. 1 ; Warner, Set. Orch. PL, i. t. 17; Piiydt, Les Orch., t. 36. Syn.—Ccelogyne layenaria. P. maculata, Lindley.—A beautiful dwarf Orchid, withroundish depressed pseudobulbs, tuberculate at the base, darkgreen, glossy, and bearing brown imbric

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