. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. ESMERALDA. 397 numerous handsome flowers; the sepals and petals are spreading oblong obtuse, dull orange-yellow with reddish-purple margins-, the lip is about the same length, three-lobed, the disk Striated and lamel- late, with a dull crest, the broad lateral lobes involute, and the front lobe much smaller, orbi- cular, and obsourely omarginate, white with dark purple spots, the other parts dull orange- red dotted with dark purple: The individual flowers a
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. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. ESMERALDA. 397 numerous handsome flowers; the sepals and petals are spreading oblong obtuse, dull orange-yellow with reddish-purple margins-, the lip is about the same length, three-lobed, the disk Striated and lamel- late, with a dull crest, the broad lateral lobes involute, and the front lobe much smaller, orbi- cular, and obsourely omarginate, white with dark purple spots, the other parts dull orange- red dotted with dark purple: The individual flowers are nearly 2 inches across. — Netv Grenada: Antioqitia, on palm stems fully e.eposed to the sun, elevation 4, 000 to 6, 000 feet. Fig. —^ot. Man., t. 4437 ; Pescatorea, t. 20; Antiales ie Gmid, 1849, t. 253; Orchid AVbnm, viii. t. 377. EBIOPSIS KTJTIDOBULBON.. E. SCHOMBURGKII.—See Emopsis biloba. Esmeralda, ndii.f. (Tribe Vandeae, sultribe Sarcanthideae.) A genus of epiphytal plants, with the habit of Vanda, having distichous coriaceous leaves, and stout aerial roots, indeed they have been grovs^n for years as Vandas, but the flowers differ in not having a saccate formation to the lip, in being destitute of a spur, and in its being jointed to the column, which induced Eeichenbach to separate them, but Bentham arranged them under the genus Arachnanthe of Blwme. We, however, prefer the views of the great specialist of the family, and thus retain Hsmeralda. Culture.—The treatment and temperature for these plants should be the same as recommended for Vandas, saving for one species, and that is E. Clarkei, which grows naturally in Sikkim at some 5, 000 feet elevation, where the temperature seldom reaches to 80° during the hottest part of the year, and in the dull season the thermometer would. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfec