NoAciiihcr, i<)i4.] 



Ill': ORCHID WORM). 



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ODONTOGLOSSUM ALHAMBRA. 



nobile llanyaiiiiin 



Roliefe crispimi Ilarryanum triiiini)Iians 



I (ardriitissiimim) | ( Mm. Valcke) | 



Lambeauiaiiuin 



I 



Alhambra. 



This will be an addition to the large lipped 

 race that Harryaniim has <^"iven. Blooming 

 as it is from a very small plant in the extreme 

 heat of Inly, what is now ajiparent is nothing 

 to what it may he. 



Sejjals and jietals light )'ellow, almost 

 covered with a marbling of light brown with 

 a bluish slate}' hue running through it. Lip 

 very large, even on a x ery small plant, white, 



Ouecii Aii-.\aiKlra 



I (Crawshayamun) 



three-quarters covered by lilac-pur])le spots. 

 In form it is much like that of the pollen 

 parent. 



I raised and bloomed this, the first of the 

 seedlings, which have been exceptionally slow 

 in growth. Sown June 14th, igog. Con- 

 sidering the strong parentage this period of 

 five years is rather remarkable. 



dc B. Crnioshay, Roxrfir/d, July jyth, IQI /• 



SCHOMBURGKIA TIBICINIS. 



THE last issue of the Journal oj tlic 

 Agri-Horlicultural Society of India 

 has for its frontispiece a reproduced 

 photograph of Schomburgkia tibicinis 

 grandiflora, and the following interesting 

 particulars : — 



" The genus Schomburgkia is a native of 

 Tropical America although the species in 

 question is generally found in Honduras ; 

 this produces very attractive flowers and is a 

 desirable variety from many points of view, in 

 spite of the fact that it is unfortunately very 

 shy of flowering. 



" In growth the Schombuigkia resembles a 

 Cattleya or Laelia with the flower-spike borne 

 on a gaunt stem from the apex of the 

 pseudo-bulb. 



" In the Society's sj^ecimen the plant that 

 flowered had 13 stems or pseudo-bulbs very 

 hard, hollow and horn-shaped, all about 

 12 inches in length with the exception of the 

 one bearing the flower-spike, which was only 

 6 inches long. The leaves were stout and 

 leathery, oblong in shape, three to four on 

 each stem, and the spike after all the flowers 

 liad opened was 6 feet high, though the 

 flowers were only borne on about two feet 

 of the stem at the extremity of the spike. 



There were 16 flowers on the spike as a first 

 batch, followed by an elongation of the tip 

 which produced eight flowers and by a further 

 growth bearing three buds, this however 

 being damaged in a hail storm. The first 

 flowers were open from the 24th of March to 

 the 1 8th AjDril, and the second batch from 

 the 29th April to the 15th May. 



" The individual flowers of the variety 

 grandiflora were 2 inches across, petals and 

 sepals rather narrow, oblong-obtuse in shape 

 and undulate, of a pale carmine-purple in 

 colour spotted on the outside with white, 

 inside the carmine merged into pale orange 

 towards the tips. The hp was very similar in 

 shape to that of a Phaius, being marked 

 like an Alpmia, the general colour of the 

 outside being a creain)-white streaked 

 at the widest part with purplish-carmine, 

 while the inside was tigered chocolate- 

 brown. The disc and front lobe was a 

 pale yellow, tipped carmine, and the column 

 a pale carmine. 



"A couple of plants of Epidendrum nemorale 

 were in flower when the second batch of 

 Schomburgkia came into bloom, and the 

 opportunity was taken to hybridise both the 

 Orchids. No pods set on the Schomburgkia, 

 however, and only one on the Epidendrum, 

 which fell off in June." 



VOL. V. 



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