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months, lasting three or four weeks in good condition if kept in 

 a cool house. It will grow either in a pot or basket, with moss 

 or peat. This is one of the finest exhibition plants we have ; 

 but to keep it for exhibition, it must be put in the gi'een- 

 house, shaded from the sun, and left there till it is wanted, 

 when it must be forced into bloom. During the time it is in 

 a cool house give it but little water, only enough to keep it 

 from shrivelling. This species may be had in full flower 

 from January to June by procuring a number of plants and 

 treating them successionally. — India; China. 



'Fig.— Serf. Orch., t. 3 ; Id., t. 18 (ccerulescens) ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vii., 

 7, with tab. (very poor) ; Gard. Chron., N.S,, xi. 561, fig. 79 : Hart, Parad, 

 i. t. 11. 



Syn. — D. ccerulescens. 



D. nobile intermedium, Hort. — A pretty and distinct 

 variety, which grows in the same way as D. nohile itself, and 

 flowers at the same time. The sepals and petals are white, 

 and the lip white, with a dark crimson spot in the centre. A 

 desirable variety for winter decoration. A scarce plant, and 

 one of the best. — India. 



D. nobile noMliuS, RcM. /. — Undoubtedly the largest- 

 flowered form of D. ')iohile yet introduced. The flowers are 

 about four inches in diameter, having broad sepals and petals, 

 white richly suflused with rosy purple, darker towards the 

 tips ; the lip is white, margined with rosy purple around the 

 anterior half, and having an intense purplish crimson blotch 

 in the centre. It flowers during the winter and spring months, 

 and is very rare. — India. 



D. noMle pallidiflorum. — See Dendrobium pkimulinum. 



D. nobile pendulum, Hort. — A fine variety of D. nohile, 

 with large flowers, richer in colour than those of the type 

 and produced at the same time. This is often called Rucker's 

 variety. It is best grown in a basket, on account of its pen- 

 dulous habit. — India. 



D. OClireatum, Lindley. — A remarkably handsome deciduous 

 species, of drooping habit. The stems are about a foot long, 

 stoutish, with thickened nodes streaked and spotted with red ; 

 the leaves are ovate-lanceolate acuminate, oblique at the base, 

 and sessile. The flowers are produced on the young growth 

 in March and April simultaneously with the leaves, the pe- 

 duncles two-flowered, the sepals and petals bright orange, the 



