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this is a scarce plant ; it blooms during the spring months, 

 and is best grown in a basket, as it is drooping and 

 deciduous. 



D. harhatulum. — A charming epiphyte from Moulmein, which 

 flowered first in the collection of the late J. A. Turner, Esq., 

 of Manchester, and was then called D. Fytcliianum. It grows 

 a foot or more long, and produces clusters of flowers of the 

 most delicate white, with a few spots of crimson. Not being 

 a robust grower, it succeeds best on a block, and must have a 

 tolerable rest after its growth is made. 



D. BensonicR. — A lovely species, of somewhat recent intro- 

 duction. It bears some resemblance to D. crepidatum in 

 habit, producing large creamy white sepals and petals ; the 

 lip is orange, with two large black spots at the base. A 

 handsome and desirable species. I saw some nice plants in 

 bloom for the first time in 1867, in the fine collection of 

 Lord Londesborough, in Yorkshire, grown by Mr. Richards. 

 Native of Rangoon. 



D. higihhum. — A ver}' rare and handsome species, totally 

 unlike any other Dendrobium we know of, and certainly the 

 handsomest of the Australian kinds. It is a dwarfish-growing 

 plant, producing racemes of rich rosy purple flowers, and will 

 sometimes continue to throw out spikes from the same stem 

 for several successive years. It will thrive admirably in the 

 Cattleya or the Mexican house, potted in fibrous peat and 

 sphagnum moss, giving abundance of drainage, and a plen- 

 tiful supply of water in the growing season ; if allowed to 

 become dry enough to shrivel, it will with great difliculty be 

 restored. A fine variety of this plant, exhibited last year 

 by Messrs. Brooks & Co., of Manchester, bore a long spike 

 with numerous fine flowers. It is also beautifully figured in 

 the second volume of Warner's " Select Orchidaceous Plants" 

 from a fine specimen which flowered with Mr. Pilcher, in the 



