The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . e, ever-green, epiphytal Orchids, natives of the Andes. Flowersoften red, disposed in loose racemes, pedicellate : sepalsequal, spreading, free, or the lateral ones more orless connate ; petals nearly similar ; claw of the lip erect,the lamina spreading, the lateral lobes round and oftenreflexed, the middle one narrow, entire or emarginate, notexceeding the sepals ; column erect, often slightly incurved ;scapes one or two, springing from under the pseudo
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . e, ever-green, epiphytal Orchids, natives of the Andes. Flowersoften red, disposed in loose racemes, pedicellate : sepalsequal, spreading, free, or the lateral ones more orless connate ; petals nearly similar ; claw of the lip erect,the lamina spreading, the lateral lobes round and oftenreflexed, the middle one narrow, entire or emarginate, notexceeding the sepals ; column erect, often slightly incurved ;scapes one or two, springing from under the oblong or narrow, coriaceous, contracted into the 248 The Dictionary of Gardening, Cochlioda— Pseudo-bnlba one- or two-leaved. The specieshere described should be grown in baskets suspended fromthe roof of the cool-house. Peat and moss form the mostsuitable compost; and abundance of water during thegrowing season is essential. Propagation may be effectedby division of the pseudo-bulbs. C. minlata (scarlet). Tliis is supposed to be a hybridbetween C. Aoezliana and C rukanica. (L. 1897, t. 562.). Fig. 265. Periplaneta australasi^e. 1, Imago (wingsexpanded); 2, Imago (wings closed); 3, Immature. C. Noezliana (John Noezlis). fl. orange-scarlet, about , -nith the disk of the lip yellow; lateral sepals narrowerand longer than the dorsal line and petals; lip three-lobed, themiddle lobe bluntly-obcordate; column triquetrous, dark;peduncles nodding or pendulous, racemose, many-flowered. , acute, 4in. to 6in. long. Pseudo-bulbs liin. to , one-leaved. South America, 1891. (L. v., t. 266.) Noezlianum. There is a form aurantiaca, withyellower flowers than in the type. 1896. C. rosea (rosy), fl. wholly rosy-caimine, except the white tip ofthe column, about lin. across ; sepals and petals oblong-elliptic ;lip cuneate at base, the small lateral lobes inclosing the disk,which bears a four-lobed callus,
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