OECHID- GROWER S MANUAL. 



BPIDENDRTTM VITELLINUM 

 MAJUS. 



the sepals and petals broader, and very thick and fleshy in 

 texture. It usually flowers during the summer months, and 

 lasts in bloom for an immense time. It sends up from the 

 top part of the bulbs its bril- 

 liantly-coloured blooms, which 

 issue from a sheath formed in 

 autumn. The plant requires the 

 same treatment as the type. Mr. 

 R. Warner, of Chelmsford, grows 

 a large quantity of this plant with 

 his Odontoglossums, and the effect 

 of these when in flower and in- 

 terspersed with them is charming. 

 It is, moreover, one of the best 

 Orchids for exhibition purposes 

 on account of its lasting such a 

 long time in perfection. It is 

 easily packed and bears travelling 

 well ; we have used a specimen 

 as many as five or six times at different shows. For home 

 growth its distinct colour claims for it a place in every 

 collection. — Mexico . 



Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 4 ; Floral Mag., t. 261 ; Jennings, Orch,, t. 31 ; 

 Puydt, Les Orch., t. 20. 



E. "Wallisii, Bchh. /. — This wonderful species is com- 

 paratively new to our collections. It is one of those which do 

 not form pseudobulbs, but instead produces tall leafy stems, 

 several feet in height, which are spotted with brownish 

 purple, and clothed with distichous leaves. The peduncles 

 are both lateral and terminal, and bear elegant drooping 

 racemes of flowers, which intermingled with the foliage pro- 

 duce a most charming effect. The flowers are numerous and 

 showy, about an inch and a half across, and sweet-scented ; 

 the ligulate-oblong sepals and petals are rich golden yellow 

 marked with small carmine-crimson spots ; and the Up is 

 broad, cuneately flabellate, white, with radiating feathery 

 minutely tubercled lines of magenta-purple. It flowers during 

 the months of October and November, and continues from 

 three to five months in perfection. — New Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ii, t. 74. 



