![]() They went to any length to acquire (by any means) the best and most magnificent specimens available. They obsessed about their care and culture. Every notable royal and gentleman capitalist grew orchids. Peduncle stout, terminal, supporting a nodding raceme aįoot long and upwards of four inches across.“Hailed with great satisfaction in horticultural circles throughout the world.” - Gardener’s Chronicle Orchidomania: “An obsession with orchids A pleasure gained from raising or collecting orchids.” Do you have Orchidomania? Nineteenth century England was obsessed with orchids. Leaves four to six, elliptic or oblong, thick coriaceous, Stems elongate, jointed, the joints three to four inches long, terete, Long, the basal half inch folded up close over the column and claw-like, the front The irregular white border broader and more distinct ![]() The same length, bluntly keeled behind at the base, linear-lnnceolate, very slight!}l»roader than the sepals, of a rather deeper rose the colour breaking into ppots, United at the base for about three-fourths of an inch, the free portion slightlyĭivergent, strongly and bluntly keeled behind, the colouring similar petals nliout Linear lanceolate acute, erect, pale wine-red or rosy lilac, with a narrow irregularīorder of white the lateral ones directed downwards, about the same length, but With ovate lanceolate boat-shaped sheathing bracts, from the upper of which theįlowers about four-and-a-half inches in expansion, with starry sepals Obovate-oblong or ligulate acute, channelled, leathery, dark green. ![]() Invested by a few ovate acute scales, about as long as the bulbs. Pseudohulhs oblong obtuse compressed, dark green, two inclies high, Upon the lip, conspicuously dotted with crimson -purple, yellow at the tip. Having a distinct narrow border of white. Sub-quadrate blotch of the richest purple-magenta extending nearly to the apex, but In the lower part by the fleshy appresscd column, which lies over an oblongĬallus ending in three elevated lines, and beyond which, on the exposed part, is a Nearly one and a-half inch long, the sides indented, white, covered along the centre Lanceolate acute, spreading, blush-lilac inside, deeper rose outside jpetals similar inĬolour, but broader and more ovate lip large, broadly obovate, obtuse, mucronulate, ![]() The lip bearing at the tip a large blotch of the richest purple-magenta sepals Two and a-half inches across, of a delicate blush rose, deeper on the outer surface, Supporting a short raceme of three to five flowers of a showy character. Growth, slender, blotched with purple, and having long sheathing green bracts, Peduncles terminal, being a tapered continuation of the young stems of the current Leaves subdistichous, remote, light green, oblong-lanceolate acute, with a sheathing base, deciduous. Ground, the veins becoming paler near the margin, and vanishing before reaching it. Yellow colour extending forwards along the central line asįar as the mouth in one broadish pale yellow stripe, the rest of the limb and theįront j)ortion of the tube beautifully veined with deep magenta on the lighter magenta Over the mouth of the tubulose portion throat yellow within, marked with mngenta They are twice the length, the front edge prettily frilled throughout, and meeting With a thick claw, the basal lobes folded so as to meet over the column, of which Near the apex, deep lilac-rose, moderately spreading, nearly throe inclics long Linciir-lanccolate, plane, entire at the margin, scarcely paler than the petals, two andĪ half inches long petals oblong, plane and cuneate at the base, slightly frilled Or dilute mngenta, uniform in tint except as to the vcining of the lip sr2)als Green, thick, firm, rather erect, oblong,įrom a short oblong compressed sheath, and supporting a short corymbiform racemeįlowers of a particularly bright lilac-rose
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