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and it resembles that plant both in its growth and in the shape 

 of its flowers, which are about four inches in diameter. The 

 sepals and wavy petals are white tipped with rich rose- 

 purple ; the lobate lip is white, also purple-tipped, having a 

 large radiating blotch of amaranth-crimson over the whole 

 central area, a broad callous line with fine purple stripes 

 running towards the base, and on each side radiating purple 

 lines. The column is green with purple stripes. It flowers 

 in January and February, and is very floriferous, since stems 

 of but four inches high produce blossoms. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fiii.—Gard. Chron., N.S., xvii. 256, fig. 35. 



D. Linawiamim, Rchb. f. — A truly handsome species of 

 upright evergreen habit, with clavate proliferous deeply 

 furrowed stems a foot or more high, which become swollen 

 at the internodes, and hence moniliform or necklace-like. 

 The younger stems bear distichous oblong obtuse obliquely 

 emarginate leaves, the flowers being produced in pairs from 

 the joints of the stem on two-year old leafless growths. The 

 flowers are two and a half inches across, with oblong acute 

 sepals and petals, the latter broader, both white at the base, 

 passing into rosy purple in the upper half, the serrulate lip 

 much shorter, ovate, reflexed, tipped with bright crimson- 

 purple, and having a crimson spot on each side the pubescent 

 disk. This species, which blooms during the winter months, 

 lasting two weeks in beauty, will grow in a basket, but we 

 find it thrives best in a pot, with peat or moss. The plant is 

 generally known in collections under the false name of D. 

 monihforme, which is quite another thing. — China and Japan. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., t. 1314 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4153 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot, iii. 77, 

 with tab. ; Maund, Botanist, iv. t. 194 ; Annales de Gand, 1847, t. 137 ; 

 Orchid Album, iii. t. 141. 



D. Linawianuni majUS, Williams. — A fine variety of the 

 preceding, growing to the same height, but having larger 

 flowers, the latter being four inches across, and richer in 

 colour. We saw this in very fine condition in the collection 

 of E. Warner, Esq. — Japan. 



D. lituifloruni, LindUy. — A charming species, with slender 

 terete fascicled pendulous yellowish deciduous stems two to 

 three feet in length, with a knob-like base, and in the younger 

 stages bearing oblong-lanceolate leaves. It succeeds best in 

 sphagnum, in a basket suspended from the roof. The flowers, 



