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spotted with crimson, and having a bulbiform base ; these 

 stems bear a few lanceolate acuminate leaves on their upper 

 part, and opposite to them at the nodes a four or five- 

 flowered raceme of extremely beautiful flowers, which are 

 flattened vertically so as to appear half expanded, and consist 

 of lanceolate sepals, oblong lanceolate broader petals of a bright 

 pinkish rose, and a spathulate-trapeziform lip, which is white in 

 the lower part, with small purple spots in the throat, a large 

 purple blotch on the disk, and an ovate rosy pink front lobe 

 marked with lines of darker rose. This splendid Orchid is 

 difficult to grow, and should be kept in a small basket or on a 

 block with sphagnum, as near the light as possible. It is 

 one of the finest of the Dendrobes, blooms during the summer, 

 and has the advantage of lasting six weeks or two months in 

 perfection. The flowers are nearly three inches long. — 

 Ceylon forests. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4886. 



D. macranthuin. — See Dendrobium superbum. 



D. macrophyllum {Hon.), — See Dendrobium supeebum. 



D. macrophyllum, A, Rich. — A fine and distinct species, 

 perhaps more curious than beautiful, but so remarkable as to be 

 well worth a place in collections. The stems are about a foot 

 high, clavate, deeply furrowed in the upper, thickened portion, 

 and terminated by three or four oblong unequally bilobed 

 pale green leaves, from the centre of which springs the erect 

 raceme, a foot high, many-flowered and nodding at the apex, 

 the blossoms being two inches in diameter, hairy externally. 

 The sepals are greenish yellow, and the smaller spathulate 

 petals dirty white, while the large dilated lip is yellowish 

 green, the side lobes radiately marked with forked purple 

 veins, and the middle lobe bearing a few radiating lines of 

 purple dots. Altogether a singular and very interesting plant, 

 which at first received the name of D. Veltchianwn, but 

 proves to be a form of D. macrophyllum ; the type plant of 

 Eichard has, according to Sir J. D. Hooker, both larger 

 leaves and longer flower spikes — perhaps the result of exces- 

 sive luxuriance in its native clime. — Java, in hot jungles. 



-piG.— Rich. Voy. Astr., t. 9 ; Bot. Mar;., t. 5649 ; De Vr. lllust., t. 5. 

 Syn. — D. Veitchianum ; D. macrophyllum Veitchianum, 



D. macrophyllum Dayanum, H. Low. — This is considered 

 to be a superior variety to the Java ^lani.— Borneo. 



