Excerpt from A Manual of Orchidaceous Plants Cultivated Under Glass in Great Britain These common characters as seen in the flowers of Dendrobium may be thus summarised. The sepals are nearly of equal length, the dorsal one free, the lateral two adnate to the foot of the column, and forming with it in some species a short gibbous chin; in others a longer or shorter spur. The petals are generally of the same length as the sepals, but some times longer, often much broader, rarely narrower. The lip is more or less contracted at the base into a claw, lying upon, or adnate to the foot of the column. The column is produced below the point of attachment to the ovary into a kind of foot, the portion above the ovary being very short. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.