DENDROBIUM. 



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recurved, with the front lobe concave ; they grow in a long 

 erect raceme, forked at the base, which terminates the scape. — • 

 Native Country not known. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 176. 



C. pimctatuin, Limlley. — This, like C. Andersoni, ia a 

 noble plant, but it is not so tall, and is a more profuse 

 bloomer. It has cjlindiical slightly compressed stems two feet 

 or more in length, crowned with a tuft of six or eight long 

 linear-lanceolate curved leaves, which render it a striking 

 object in an Orchid collection, even when out of bloom. The 

 scape arising from the base of the stem is erect, nearly three 

 feet high, spotted with purple-brown, and bearing a panicle of 

 large handsome flowers, which are yellow spotted with red, 

 the lip having a broad red -purple margin ; they are produced 

 in April and May. In addition to the flowers the large bracts 

 at the base of each branch are also marked in the same 

 manner as the sepals and petals, which greatly increases the 

 display of colour. — West Indies ; Brazil. 



¥lQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 3507 ; Sertmi Orch., t. 12. 

 S YN. — Epidtndrum punctatum. 



DeNDEOBIUM, Sicartz. 

 {Tribe Epidendreae, subtribe DendrobieEe.) 



A very extensive as well as magnificent genus of Orchids, 

 partly consisting of plants with tall jointed stems, bearing 

 lateral or pseudoterminal racemes of flowers, and partly of 

 pseudobulbous species which have their floral racemes ter- 

 minal. Some of the species produce very large flowers, which 

 are delicate in colour, and delightfully fragrant ; some of 

 them blossom very freely, and are very ornamental ; some 

 are evergreen, retaining their leaves all the year round, whilst 

 others are deciduous, flowering on the ripened leafless stems. 

 Being, however, a large genus, comprising some 300 species, 

 it contains also many plants of but little interest to the 

 amateur, though well deserving cultivation in a botanical col- 

 lection. Those we describe below are among the finest in 



