[Plate 57.] 
THE WHITE AND SANGUINE DENDPtOBE. 
(DENDROBIUM ALBOSANGUINEUM.) 
A Hothouse Epiphyte, from Mbulmein, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids 
^pttiSt Character. 
THE WHITE AND SANGUINE DENDROBE (Euden- 
drobes). — Stems thick^ erect Flowers in pairs, nodding, 
with herbaceous scale-like bracta Sepals linear-lanceo- 
late, the side ones extended into a short, obtuse, rounded 
chin. Petals oblong, mcurved, very much broader. Lip 
roundish-obovate, llat^ retuse^ apiculate^ quite entire* 
DENDROBIUM ALBOSANGUINEUM (Eudendrobium) ; 
caulibus crassis erectis^ floribus gemiuia nutantibus 
bracteis herbacels squamaeformibus, sepalls lineari-Ianceo- 
latis lateralibua In mentum breve obtusum proJucds, 
petalis oblongis incurvis pluries latioribus, labello obovato 
subrotundo piano retuso apiculato integerrimo. 
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COME of the finest species of this genus are found in the division which we formerly 
and 
growing 
The di\ision is separated from 
hand, by the lip not bein^ broken up into a tuft 
other, from Stachyobium, by the flowers not forming racemes. 
distinctly into three 
part of small 
plants as B. Ruchri^ mnguinoleninm^ villomhm, and Jerdoniamm 
eally distinct from each other, as would seem from no mention being made by Dr. Wight 
hair upon the stems of the last. 
The remainder consist of about 30 known species, in which the lip has 
forms, when flattened, a circular or 
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three natural 
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limits, but wliich the cultivator wiH readily 
Of the 
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