DENDROBIUM. 



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similar, oblong, somewhat incurved, the lip shorter, broadly 

 oblate, cucullate, the surface downy, and the margin fringed, 

 having also two deep purple-crimson spots at the base, one on 

 each side the column. The long drooping racemes are very 

 conspicuous. — India : Khasya and hot valleys of the Sikkim 

 Himalaya. 

 Ym.—Bot. Mag., t. 6226. 



D. Gribsoni, Paxt. — A very showy evergreen Orchid, one 

 of the finest of the yellow-flowered series. The stems are 

 terete, tapering, pendulous, about two feet long, with ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate leaves, and lateral racemes of ten to fifteen 

 flowers produced near the end of the older stems. The sepals 

 and petals are of a rich orange ; the lip very broad, undulated 

 and fringed, bright yellow, with two dark purple spots near 

 the base. It blooms during the autumn months, lasts two 

 weeks in good condition, and requires the same treatment as 

 D. formosum . — India : Khasya . 



YlQ.—Paxton, Mag. Bot., v. 169, with tab. ; Paxt., Fl. Card., ii. 133, fig. 

 204. 



D. Goldiei, Rchb. f. — A very beautiful and distinct species 

 in the way of D. superbiens, but difierent in having taller and 

 more slender stems, longer and much narrower leaves, and 

 more brilliantly coloured flowers. The flowers grow in droopiog 

 racemes from the upper part of the stems, and are of a rich 

 claret-purple ; the sepals lanceolate and tessellated with darker 

 veins ; the petals broader, oblong, whole-coloured ; and the lip, 

 which is quite distinct in form from that of D. superbiens, 

 being much longer, narrower, and more acute at the point, 

 also entirely of a claret-purple. This, like D. superbiens, 

 flowers at difi'erent times of the year, and lasts three months 

 in perfection. It also requires the same treatment as that 

 species. — Introduced by us from Torres Straits. 



'Fig.— Garden, xiv. 244, 1. 145. 



D. gratiosissimum, Rchb.f. — A delicate and pretty species 

 resembling D. crepidatum in habit, with suberect stems, 

 slender at the base, striated, and bearing ovate-lanceolate 

 acute leaves, which fall before the flowers are produced. The 

 latter are in fascicles of two or three together, two and a half 

 inches across ; the sepals and petals are lance-shaped, white 

 slightly shaded and tipped with rose ; and the hp is entire, 

 broadly ovate, white tipped with rose, and marked at the base 



