DENDKOBIUM. 'Zb\) 



D. albo-sangumeum, LindUy. — A distinct and compact- 

 growing plant, with thick erect knobby stems a foot high, 

 and thicker upwards. The leaves are broad and firm, and the 

 very large flowers grow in pairs from the joints near the top. 

 The flowers have the sepals and petals creamy white, while 

 the very large squarish flat hp is of the same colour, with a 

 crimson blotch on each side near the base. It blooms in 

 May and June, lasting a long time in perfection, and is a 

 distinct Orchid, and a fine showy plant for exhibition. Mr. 

 Lobb describes the wild plant as producing the flowers in 

 racemes of five or six together. It thrives well on a block 

 with sphagnum moss, or it will do well grown in baskets with 

 sphagnum, and seems to be quite at home, for the bulbs become 

 very strong. It requires plenty of water during the growing 

 season, enjoys an abundance of light, and likes the warmest 

 house. — Moulmein. 



'FiG.—Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii. t. 57; Flore des Sevres, t. 721 ; Lem. Jard. FL, 

 t. 203 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5130 ; Batem. 2nd Cent., t. 173. 



DENDROBirrM AMCENUM. 



D. amcenum, WalUch. — A very pretty species, producing 

 long slender fascicled pendulous stems two feet long, linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate wavy leaves, and short racemes, one to 

 three-flowered, from the nodes of the stem. The sepals and 

 petals are pure white, tipped with magenta, the lip broadly 



