The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Octomeria

Odontoglossum
Odontoglossum

To the species described on p. 467, Vol. II., the following should now be added:

O. supraglauca (glaucous above). fl. 3/4in. long; sepals and petals pale glassy-green, faintly tinted purplish outside, lanceolate, acuminate; lip one-fourth as long as the sepals and petals, obtuse, yellowish, with a large, lurid-purple blotch; peduncles bearing two or three flowers. l. elliptic, fleshy, whitish-green above, beneath dark green, obscurely tessellated with dark purple, and minutely furrowed. h. about 2in. 1887. Plant tufted.

Odontoglossum
Odontoglossum
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