UBO ORCHID- GEO WEE S MANUAL. 



D. Jamesianum, Echb.f. — This is a very fine nigro-hirsute 

 species, named in honour of the late Mr. James Veitch. It is 

 in the way of D. infimdibulum, and is considered by many to 

 be a variety of it. The stems grow from a foot to a foot and 

 a half high. The flowers are nearly as large as those of D. 

 formosinn, pure white, except that the lip is deeply stained 

 with cinnabar red. It blooms during spring and summer. 

 This, as well as the preceding species, succeeds best in the 

 cool house. It is a grand exhibition plant, and its flowers 

 last in perfection for several weeks if kept from the damp. 

 — Moulmein. 



YlQ.— Florist and Pom., 1869, 187, with fig. 



D. japonicum. — See Dendrobium monilifoeme. 



D. Jenkinsii, WalUch. — A beautiful dwarf evergreen species 

 with clustered oblong tetragonal pseudobulbs, each bearing 

 at the top a solitary oblong coriaceous retuse leaf, the whole 

 not exceeding two or three inches in height. The flowers are 

 very large for the size of the plant, and last ten days in 

 beauty ; they grow on slender peduncles, solitary or gemi- 

 nate, from the side of the pseudobulbs, and are wholly deep 

 yellow, the lip being very large and spreading, reniform 

 retuse, slightly pubescent and ciliate, and measuring nearly 

 an inch across. This species is best grown on a bare block 

 of wood, suspended from the roof, A magnificent specimen 

 of it was exhibited at South Kensington by Mr. Denning, 

 gardener to Lord Londesborough. — I)idia : Assam. 



'Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1839, t. 37 ; Warner, Sel. Orch, PL, ii. t. 28. 



D. lasioglossum, Bchh. f. — A somewhat small-flowered 

 species, but well deserving the attention of Orchid-growers. 

 The stems are slender, terete, drooping, one to two feet long, 

 with flat lanceolate acuminate leaves, and at the nodes opposite 

 the leaves short racemes of two or three flowers, which are 

 white, except a few reddish purple streaks on the erect lateral 

 lobes of the hp, and a tuft of pale yellow hairs on the disk. — 

 — Bur mail. 



'ElG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5825. 



D. LeecManuin, Rchh. f. — A very handsome hybrid, raised 

 between D. aureum and D. nobile, by Mr. Swan, gardener to 

 W. Leech, Esq., Oakley, Fallowfield, Manchester. It is the 

 same cross as that from which D. Ainsicorthii was obtained. 



