A Monograph of Odontoglossum

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J. Bateman. A Monograph of Odontoglossum

INTRODUCTION

Plate I. ODONTOGLOSSUM NEBULOSUM, Lindley

Plate II. ODONTOGLOSSUM URO-SKINNERI, Lindl

Plate III. ODONTOGLOSSUM PHALÆNOPSIS, Rchb. fil

Plate IV. ODONTOGLOSSUM INSLEAYI, Lindl

Plate V. ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI, Lindley

Plate VI. ODONTOGLOSSUM PENDULUM

Plate VII. ODONTOGLOSSUM HASTILABIUM, Lindley

Plate VIII. ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE, Lindley

Plate IX. ODONTOGLOSSUM NÆVIUM, Lindley

Plate X. ODONTOGLOSSUM CARINIFERUM, Reichb. fil

Plate XI. ODONTOGLOSSUM LINDLEYANUM

Plate XII. ODONTOGLOSSUM GLORIOSUM

Plate XIII. a. ODONTOGLOSSUM WARNERIANUM,

Plate XIII. b. ODONTOGLOSSUM STELLATUM

Plate XIV. ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRÆ

Plate XV. ODONTOGLOSSUM REICHENHEIMII

Plate XVI. ODONTOGLOSSUM LÆVE

Plate XVII. ODONTOGLOSSUM LUTEO-PURPUREUM

Plate XVIII. ODONTOGLOSSUM BICTONIENSE

Plate XIX. ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRÆ

Plate XX. ODONTOGLOSSUM MACULATUM

Plate XXI. ODONTOGLOSSUM HALLII

Plate XXII. ODONTOGLOSSUM ROSEUM

Plate XXIII. ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS

Plate XXIV. ODONTOGLOSSUM KRAMERI

Plate XXV. ODONTOGLOSSUM CORDATUM

Plate XXVI. ODONTOGLOSSUM ANGUSTATUM

Plate XXVII. ODONTOGLOSSUM CORONARIUM

Plate XXVIII. ODONTOGLOSSUM BLANDUM

Plate XXIX. ODONTOGLOSSUM VEXILLARIUM

Plate XXX. ODONTOGLOSSUM ROEZLII

Отрывок из книги

O. (Leucoglossum, Lindl.) pseudobulbis ovatis compressis 2-3-phyllis, foliis oblongis acutis basi conduplicatis pedunculo radicali erecto (apice) nutante 3-7-floro brevioribus, bracteis scariosis amplexicaulibus ovario duplo brevioribus, sepalis petalisque latioribus membranaceis oblongis undulatis apiculis recurvis, labelli ungue cucullato carnoso, lamellis duabus erectis dentibusque totidem anticis, limbo ovato acuto dentato subpubescente, columnâ apterâ elongatâ. (Lindl. quibusdam mutatis.)

Odontoglossum nebulosum, Lindl. Fol. Orch.

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It was at Munich, in the year 1835, that I first became acquainted with this fine Odontoglossum having, through the kindness of Professor Von Martius, been allowed to examine the rich collection of dried specimens that Baron Karwinski had then recently brought home with him from Mexico. Two years afterwards living plants were sent to me from Oaxaca, which happening to arrive in the midst of that remarkably severe winter 1837-38, I naturally expected would have been destroyed on their way; so far, however, from this being the case, they appeared to have sustained little or no injury from the cold, and on being placed in a stove they soon began to push both roots and leaves. All went well so long as the temperature of the house did not exceed 70°, but when the winter had passed away and they had to face the intense heat at which the Orchid-houses of that period were ordinarily maintained, they then quickly lost their vigour and before a twelvemonth had passed were all gone, victims – like a multitude of other invaluable plants – to our then ignorance of the conditions under which alone the Orchids of cool countries could be expected to thrive!

I am not aware that this plant ever flowered in this country until within the last year or two, certainly no figure of it has ever been published in any English botanical periodical; I have, however, found in a French work (the Illustration Horticole), under the name of O. maxillare, what is obviously the same as the plant represented in the Plate. I should myself have probably fallen into the same mistake as Professor Lemaire, had I not enjoyed the opportunity – which he unfortunately had not – of examining the original specimens in Dr. Lindley's herbarium, and from which that able botanist drew up his description (in the Folia Orchidacea) of the two species. O. maxillare, of which Dr. Lindley only examined a single flower – though he made a most careful drawing – is shown by a glance at the latter, to be a totally different thing; it has moreover, I fear, long since disappeared from our collections. In Dr. Lindley's description the flower-scape is said to be terminal, which in nature it never is, although from the way in which Karwinski's wild specimen was glued together, it certainly presents that appearance in the herbarium. The column moreover, and the base of the sepals and petals, are said to be pubescent, though nothing of the kind is visible to the naked eye when the flowers are fresh. With a powerful magnifying glass pubescence may certainly be seen.

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