The Orchid Album, Volume 3: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous PlantsMoore, Thomas
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The Orchid Album, Volume 3: Comprising Coloured Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, and Beautiful Orchidaceous Plants
Moore, Thomas
Orchids; Orchids -- Pictorial works
Epiphytal. _Pseudobulbs_ oblong attenuated at the apex, four inches
high, furrowed, dark green, sheathed while young with large leafy
scales, which gradually pass into the true leaves, becoming leafless
in age. _Leaves_ broadly elliptic-lanceolate acute, strongly ribbed
and of thin herbaceous texture. _Scape_ stout, springing from the base
of the pseudobulbs, eight to ten inches high, with one or two distinct
sheathing ovate acuminate pale green bracts. _Flowers_ large, solitary
at the top of the erect scape, subglobose, of a clear ivory white;
_sepals_ broadly orbicular-ovate, acute, cucullately concave, the
margins of the dorsal and the tips of the connivent lateral ones
recurved, white; _petals_ smaller, enclosed, concave, also white;
_lip_ white spotted with pink, turned up so to be parallel to the
column, three-lobed, the lateral lobes broad narrowed to a point which
is recurved, the middle lobe small, triangular, deflexed with a furrow
down the centre. _Column_ clavate, the apex with three projecting
subulate-triangular teeth directed downwards.
Anguloa eburnea, _Williams_, _Orchid Grower’s Manual_, 3 ed., 67;
_Id._, ed. 5, 91.
Of this small Orchidic genus there are but few species known in
cultivation. All those we have seen bear curiously-formed flowers, and
are very showy. The species now before us has the flowers of an ivory
white, and these when in bloom form a good contrast with the yellow
flowers of _Anguloa Clowesii_ and the beautifully spotted flowers of _A.
Ruckeri_ and its variety _A. Ruckeri sanguinea_, a figure of which
latter plant will be found at Plate 19 of our first volume. There are
besides other species, but those we have mentioned are among the most
showy.
_Anguloa eburnea_, our present subject, is an exceedingly rare and a
very distinct species, which indeed we have seen in very few
collections. We are indebted to Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart, M.P., of
Burford Lodge, Dorking, whose collection, as is well known, abounds in
rare Orchids, for the opportunity of publishing the accompanying figure.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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