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lip broad, roundish, cucuUate from a convolute base, villous, 

 with a recurved margin, and a large sanguineous crimson 

 blotch in the centre. It lasts in beauty about a fortnight, 

 and is best grown in a basket with moss, and suspended 

 from the roof. — India : Khasya hills. 



¥lG.—Bof. Mag., t. 4450 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vi. 265, with tab. 

 Stn. — D. Cambridgeanum. 



D. nodatum, — See Dendrobium Aphrodite. 



D. ParisMi, Bchh. f. — A very beautiful free-flowering 

 species. The stems are from one to two feet long, very 

 thick throughout their entire length, decurved, and bearing 

 flowers in the second year, after the leaves have fallen ; the 

 leaves oblong-lanceolate, leathery, and notched at the ends. 

 The flowers grow generally in pairs or in threes, and are of a 

 beautiful dark rose, the downy lip lighter in colour along the 

 centre, with a dark purple blotch on each side the throat. It 

 is a very distinct species, and makes a good exhibition plant, 

 on account of its distinct colour. — Moulmein. 



'ElG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5488 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 39 ; Xenia Orch., ii. t, 152. 



D, Paxtoni {Paxt.). — Dendrobium fimbriatum oculatum. 

 D. Paxtoni (Lindley). — See Dendrobium chrysanthum. 



D. Phalgenopsis, Fitzgerald. — A beautiful species allied to 

 D. bigibbum, but very much superior in respect to the size and 

 colour of its flowers. The stems are erect, rather slender, 

 upwards of a foot and a half long, contracted towards the base, 

 and bearing near the top a few (eight or ten) lanceolate leaves 

 five inches long. The racemes are terminal, on erect pe- 

 duncles, ten inches long, the flowers about fifteen in number, 

 two to two and a half inches across, and brilliantly coloured ; 

 the sepals are oblong-ovate, an inch long, magenta with 

 a whitish centre, the spur deep purple ; the petals are rhomboid- 

 obovate, over an inch broad, of a warm magenta-purple, the 

 lower half paler in the centre ; the lip intensely rich deep rosy 

 purple, an inch long, acute, with the broad lateral lobes meet- 

 ing over the column, its base forming at the hinge a second 

 spur, and the front lobe deflexed, magenta with maroon-crim- 

 son veins, the throat rich maroon-crimson ; the veins of the 

 throat are thickened and covered with dark papillae. It flowers 

 in April. — No7-th Australia; New Guinea, Timor. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iv., t. 187. 



