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four feet long when well grown, and bears its flowers in 

 racemes of twelve or more together, which proceed from the top 

 of the old stems. The flowers are large, but not equal in size 

 to those of D. moschatum, the sepals and petals apricot yellow, 

 and the slipper- shaped hp of a deeper golden yellow with an 

 orange-coloured spot on each side near the base. It blooms 

 during the summer months, lasting a week in perfection. 

 This is best grown in a pot with moss and peat. — India. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. t. 165. 



Syn. — D. Calceolvs, Hort. ; D. cupreuni. 



D. moulmeineiise. — See Dendrobium infundibulum. 



D. mutabile, Lindley. — A very pretty evergreen species, 

 with rather slender terete erect striated stems, furnished with 

 numerous distichous eUiptical sessile blunt fleshy leaves, 

 which become smaller uj)wards, the stems terminating in a 

 dense panicle of medium-sized flowers, which are in some 

 forms white, and in others white tinted with rose. The lip is 

 deeply emarginate or obcordate, and bears on its disk three 

 crests, which are blunt at the apex and tinted with yellow or 

 orange. The flowers are produced on the leafy stems at 

 diflferent times of the year, and last two weeks in bloom. It 

 is best grown in a pot with peat. — India. 



YiG.—Boi. Reg , 1841, t. 1 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5285. 

 Syn. — D. triadenium ; Onychium mutabile, 



D. nobile, Lindley. — A magnificent and justly popular free- 

 flowering evergreen species. The erect furrowed stems are 

 a foot or more in height, clustered, terete, compressed, slightly 

 thickened upwards, bearing 

 distichous oblong obliquely 

 emarginate leaves, and on the 

 older ripened stems clusters of 

 two or three flowers from the 

 upper nodes. The blossoms 

 are rather largo and very 

 showy, with oval sepals and 

 much broader undulated pe- 

 tals, white heavily tipped with 

 DENDROBIUM NOBiLB. rosc, the Hp rolled up at the 



base, downy on both surfaces, 

 roundish ovate, creamy white with rosy tip, and a deep crimson 

 spot in the throat. It blooms during the winter and spring 



