| DESIGN: Old prints
from the Orchid Album of Robert Wagner and Benjamin Samuel Williams, Paxton's
Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants, and the Botanical
Magazine illustrated by Walter Hood Fitch. All the orchid prints were done
in the 19th century and some are by John Nugent Fitch, a nephew of Walter
Hood Fitch.
Mariposa - Phalaenopsis
amabilis (P30.00) - The leaves of this orchid are few, broadly ovate-oblong,
blunt apically, fleshy and leathery, long and about 5" wide. Inflorescences
are slender and gracefully arching. Flowers which vary in size are white,
flushed with yellow on the lip and more or less marked and striped with
red around the calli. Sepals are oblong and blunt at tips. Petals are clawed,
mostly broadly rhombic-cuneate, blunt and somewhat emarginate apically.
Sanggumay - Dendrobium
superbum (P50.00) - The leaves of this specie are fleshy, glossy-green,
oblong-lanceolate, acutish up to 5" long, flattened and borne in two (2)
ranks. Inflorescences are usually 2 flowered, almost stalkless, borne on
the leafless pseudobulbs. Flowers vary in colour, the typical phase with
mauve-purple sepals and petals. The lip has 2 deep purple blotches in the
throat, the flaring part of which is veined with deeper purple. Flowers
are extremely fragrant.
Lady's Slipper - Paphiopedilum
argus - (P75.00) - The leaves grow up to 7" long and 1 1/2 wide with
the upper side chequered with light spots. Scape consists of one flower
that grows up to 15" tall. The dorsal sepal is white except for the darker
base, with green and brown longitudinal nerves of unequal lengths, very
broadly ovate and sharp-pointed. Flowers are about 4" in diameter. The
petals are sharply turned downwards, while the base is pale and red near
the apices which is furnished with many black-purple warts, ligulate and
acutish. The lip is broad, dark brown-purple. The lower side of the lip
is paler and veined with light green. Bloom in spring to early summer.
Waling-Waling - Vanda
sanderiana (P100.00) - This epiphyte grows on branches of tall dipterocarp
trees. It is 25 to 100 cm. tall with numerous, rather closely arranged
long narrow leaves. Inflorescences are stout, erect or ascending to about
12" long, well-spaced or somewhat crowded flowers. The sepals are greenish
with purple streaks and irregular spots. Though similar to the petals,
the sepals are smaller, rose purple in color and have purple spots on the
lower margins near the base. The flowers, variable in dimensions and color
are fragrant and long-lived. Found in Davao and considered an endangered
specie. |
