94 
THE WHITE AND SANGUINE DENDKOBE 
first, the 1). macrophyllum and noUle may be taten as types ; of the second, D. Fierardi and 
milcheUum; while the third includes the yellow-flowered species, such as D. chrt/santhum and 
aureiim. 
To the last group belongs the very remartable plant now figured. 
named from its broad whitish flowers marked m the nu 
sanguine stain, is a stout erect plant with 
end. 
firm 
stem it produces in pairs very large flowers, of a waxy appearance and consistence, with none of 
the transparency that belongs to Fierardi and its alhes. When spread flat, these are f ull ' ' ' 
in diameter. 
lik 
Lim 
cucuUate 
except just at the very base, where it presses against the column. 
We 
farther 
t€ 
Mr 
Moulmein. The description he sent us of it was as follows :— Stems round, jointed, erect; spikes 
two and three terminal, erect, five and six-flowered; flowers 2^ to 3 inches across, white, with two 
with 
We 
on the 23rd of April, and in June the flowers you 
flower when he collected them in I'ebruary. We 
in both which situations it is doing well with us. W' 
/ 
It is evidently a free grower, and we have no doubt next spring 
we shall have it bloom very fine ; although the specimen sent you had but two flowers, yet from the 
old spikes it is evident it flowers^ as Lobb describes, in fives and sixes on a raceme.'^ We found 
the flowers to grow in pairs, as we have stated. Perhaps two or 
taken for one sir 
the Stachyobes. 
Perhaps two or three pairs may have been 
If it really forms racemes then it will have to be removed to 
A CATALOaUE 
Of the Dendrobes belonging to the section Eudendrobitjm having an undivided lip^ with their synonymes 
and horticultural merits. 
Group L— GRANDIA/ 
1. D. macrophyllum lAndley, — Manilla. — ^Flowers very large, bright rose-colour, rhubarb- 
scented. 
1 
2. D, anosmum Lindley, — Manilla. — Like the last, but scentless. 
3. D. moniliforme Swartz, — Japan. — ^Flowers large, showy, rose-colour, not spotted. 
4. D. coerulescens Lindley. — ^E. Indies.^ — Mowers showy, rose-colour, with a purple-stained lip. 
(alias D. WallicJiii of gardens.) 
5. D. nobile Lindley. — China. — Flowers large, rose-colour, with a purple-stained lip, larger than 
in the last, 
V ■ 
6. D. tortile Mndley. — Java ? — ^Flowers very handsome, violet, with a primrose-coloured lip. 
