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Plate XXXVI. 



DISA GEANDIFLORA SUPEttBA. 



A crocping-rooUhl twrestrial herb of vciy gnat beauty, baring in ore* item, clothed xrith numeral* lanceo- 

 late acuminate spreading ribbed leaves, una terminating in a loose open spike of scrcrnl show? Horn*, each 

 three and a half incite* arro^. Mt ; n tn e , iK [\ nf , m ftriim inatc bmct. Thr aepals are Iftigr, the upper one 

 erect, hooded, ovatoacnta, and venose, of a |mIi* rosy-tinted cream colour, marked with doited crimson lines, 

 having behind » blunt ipur mora than half on inch longfnot shown in our figure); the lateral ona plain, 

 ; Hiding, somewhat laterally ricflexod, ovate acuminate, two and a half inches long, and »f a rich crimson- 



scarlet The petals are small, ovate, at the bn f ilio column. Tlio lip, projecting in from, i* small n- 



comd, linear acuminate, and tosc<cototirccL The brood column b provided with a pair of (reel half-oval 

 recurved rabconrolute appendages, which are yellow and ihiekh ipottcd with crimson-rose, the anther bed 

 forming a long coukal beaMke projection between them. 



DiftA ausMnou surauu, iUiw, I'madiup of the Itoyal Ihrticuttarul Society, ii. CI7; FloriH and Pomoloptt, 

 ii. 105* with n figure. 



The old Dim grandiflora was figured so long ago as 182"). in the Botanical IUpi$tcr* from a specimen 

 flowered, as was supposed for the first time in Kuropc, bv W. Griffin, Esq., of South Luuhrih, a well-known 

 Cultivator of that day, after whom the pretty genua Griffima is named A comparison of that figure with our 

 own, will ho sufficient to show that the title of superba is well merited. This name was given at a meeting 

 of the Moral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society , held in July, 1802, when Iwo nr three different 

 forms were shown by C. J-each, Esq., of Clapham Park, ami the present* as being much superior to the rest, 

 received the highest award that could be gira) to il. The flowers were larger and better proportional, the 

 colours richer and more decidedly contrasted than in the ordinary forms. The doi*al sepal was deeply 

 Hushed with purple-rose, and marked with veiy distinct crimson-purple forking dotted lines, and the Intend 

 sepals were of a light crimson. This specimen had four flowering stems, eaeli with four or five flowew. In 

 others equally well grown, the colours were paler, the dorsal sepal being more blush than rose-coloured, 

 and the lateral ones orangc-rcd. We therefore readily adopt the name of xttprrba. 



Dim f/ratidiflora xuperha ranks amount I he lines! of greenhouse Orchids. Our drawing was taken 

 from a very strong plant thai produced with us eight blooms on one spike— an unusual number, for com- 

 monly not more than two, three, or four arc produced. It was grown in a greenhouse under vines, bul as 

 near the glass as possible where it obtained plenty of light. 



The moet successful Cultivator of this Dim is C- Leach. Esq., of Clapham Park, and the horticultural 

 world is greatly indebted to this gentleman for bringing it so prominently under notice as he has done, by 

 the One specimens exhibited at Kensington and the Urgent"* Park shows, during the last few year* Every 

 one who has scon these plant* must have been astonished at the vigorous growth they presented, with their 

 thirty to forty young shoots and numerous flower spikes; some young stems indeed grew out from the boles 

 in the sides of the pots, so vigorous were they. What they require is coolness and moisture at the root, and 

 a good season of growth during the winter months, at which time they require great care. 



This Dim has a creeping underground stem, which tlinnra up young shoots about *ix inches in height, 

 and «.fu light green colour. The have, are affixed to these stems, ami the flower spike, when present, 





