figured in the London Flor. and Bot. Magazines. 375 

 Orchiddcece. 



DENDRO'BIUM 



densiflorum Pazt. Dense-finwered Dendrobiiira, A stove epiphyte; growing a foot high; with 

 deep yellow tioweis; appearing in Way; a native of Nepal; grown in heath soil. Pax. 

 Mag. Bot., Vol. v., p. 121. 



A splendid species, with dense racemes of deep yellow flowers. 

 The drawing was taken from a specimen in flower, in the Duke of 

 Devonshire's collection, which was imported, among others, by 

 Mr. John Gibson, his Grace's collector. It is easily cultivated 

 in heath soil, well drained, and the pot plunged in a gentle heat. 

 {Pax. Mag. Bot.., July.) 



* Dendrobium formosum Wall. A noble plant, with large ivo- 

 ry white flowers, unrivalled for beauty, even in the rich Flora of 

 India, which has flowered at the Duke of Devonshire's, at Chats- 

 worth, into whose collection it was introduced by Mr. Gibson. 

 "The flowers grow at the end of a leafy stem, and are between 

 three or four inches in expansion, with every part of the purest 

 and most transparent white, except one delicate, lozenge-shaped, 

 bufli'-colored blotch, in the centre of the lip." [Bot. Reg., Alis. 

 Not. July.) 



PHA'lUS 

 albus Lindl. whiteflnwered Phaius. A stove epiphyte; growing a foot hish; with white 

 flowers; appearing in May; a native of Nepal. Pax. Mag. Bot., Vol. V., p. 195. 



"One of the most delicate, as well as the most lovely of orchi- 

 daceous plants, the flowers being large and pure white, pencilled 

 in the most exquisite manner with purple on the lip; when in 

 flower, it has a strikingly beautiful appearance, particularly as the 

 flowers are produced at the extremities of the shoots when these 

 are in full leaf." The habit of the plant is very remarkable; at 

 one season it is in a leafless state; at another, in full growth; and 

 in the third, beautifully in bloom. The flowers are large, and 

 are produced in a pendant raceme, about six inches in length. 

 This species was originally discovered by Dr. Wallich, in Ne- 

 pal; but the plant, from which the drawing was made, was im- 

 ported by the Duke of Devonshire, in 1837, through his collect- 

 or, Mr. John Gibson, who found it growing upon trees in shady 

 damp woods, on the Khoosea hills, at an elevation of from two to 

 three thousand five hundred feet, where it blossoms during the 

 rainy season in the greatest profusion. The genus is related to 

 Bletia. {Pax. Mag. Bot., July.) 



PIlAIj^NO'PSIS (from ijiaXaiva a moth, and oi//i? resemblance,) Blume. 



amabilis B/umr. The Indian Bu«c;;/?i/ plant. A stove epiphyte; growing a foot high; with 

 white flowers; appearing in May; a native of Manilla; grown in turf or moss. Bot. Reg., 

 N. s. 34. 



Another lovely species, the curious form of whose flowers, "the 

 graceful way in which they hang down from below the leaves, their 

 huge size, and the brilliant whiteness of their broad leathery pet- 

 als," give it a most striking and uncommon appearance. It flower- 

 ed for the first time in Europe, in the collection of Messrs. Rolli- 

 son's, of Tooting, in May last. Dr. Blume first met with it on the 



