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drooping stems, the short three to five-flowered racemes being 

 protruded through the scarious sheaths just above the joints. 

 The small blossoms are white tinted with pink, and appear at 

 different times in the year, lasting some two or three weeks 

 in perfection. The leaves are linear-lanceolate acute. It 

 succeeds best grown lq a pot with peat and good drainage. 

 This species is not so showy as many of the Dendrohiums, 

 but it is well worth growing where there is room for it. — 

 India. 

 Fig.— Bot. Beg., 1846, t. 15. 



D. aggregatum, Eoxb. — A pretty dwarf evergreen species, 

 growing about four inches high, with clustered one-leaved 

 oblong-ovate furrowed pseudobuibs, the inflorescence con- 

 sisting of a short loose raceme being produced from the axil 

 of a small scale on the side of the pseudobulb ; the flowers 

 are deep golden yellow with an orange yellow stain at the 

 base of the pubescent lip. D. agyregatum majus is a large- 

 flowered variety. They flower in March and AprU, lasting 

 two weeks in bloom, and wiU do either on a block or in a 

 pot with peat. It is a desirable species. — India. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., t. 1695 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3643 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vi. 145, 

 with tab. ; Annales de Gand, 1849, t. 263. 



D. AinSWOrtMi, Moore. — A beautiful and free-blooming 

 hybrid, between!). 7iobile and D. aureuvi{heterocarpum). The 

 stems resemble those of D. nobile, and the plant is quite as 

 free a grower as that parent, blossoming from the mature 

 stems ; the leaves are linear-oblong. The flowers, which are 

 produced in February and March, are deliciously scented, the 

 sepals and petals pure white, the lip marked with a large 

 central feathered blotch of rich bright amaranth or claret- 

 purple. This variety was raised by Mr. Mitchell, gardener to 

 Dr. Ainsworth, of Manchester. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Card. Chron., N.S., i. 443, figs. 93, 94 ; Id., viii. 166, figs. 30, 31, 

 32 (specimen plant) ; Id., xvi. 625, fig. 125; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 196 ; 

 Florist and Pom., 1874, 114, with figs. 



D. AinswortMi roseum, Moore. — A very handsome deeper 

 coloured variety of the preceding, in which the sepals and 

 petals are of a bright clear rosy magenta and the lip amaranth 

 crimson with a dark spot, feathered at the edge, and traversed 

 by deeper crimson veins. It flowers in February and March, 

 and was raised, we believe, in the game batch of seedlings as 

 the foregoing. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 20. 



