Orchids |
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Introduction | 8 |
Habits of Growth | 28 |
The Leaves of Tropical Orchids | 48 |
Copyright | |
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Aërides America Angraecum sesquipedale Batem beautiful BRASSAVOLA DIGBYANA BRASSIA VERRUCOSA Brazil broad Bulbophyllum Burma Flowering period Calanthe Cattleya Central CIRRHOPETALUM clusters collectors Colombia Colombia Flowering period colour column Comet Orchid Coryanthes Costa Rica cultivation cut flowers Cycnoches Cypripediums Dendrobium thyrsiflorum developed distribution edge entirely Epidendrum epiphytic epiphytic orchids epiphytic species flecked fleshy flower-spikes forests fruit fungus genera genus glass-house growers growth guineas Habitat height humidity hybrids inflorescences insect labellum Lady's Slipper Laelia large flowers lateral sepals leaves lobe magnificent MASDEVALLIA Miltonia moisture native number of species Odontoglossum crispum Oncidium orchid flowers orchid grows PAPHIOPEDILUM particularly pendent Peristeria elata Pfitz Phalaenopsis amabilis PHALAENOPSIS VIOLACEA plants Plate 52 pollination pollinia pollinium produce pseudo-bulbs purple roots SANDERIANA Rchb scent seeds sepals sepals and petals shape shoots sometimes specimens Stanhopea STANHOPEA TIGRINA stem sticky disk terrestrial orchids THUNIA trees tropical orchids unusual upper sepal Vanda teres Vanilla varieties yellow