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sulphur- coloured lip being particularly fine. This is a free- 

 flowering plant, which ought to be in every collection, and is 

 best grown in a basket, as it is pendulous in habit. It is 

 grown in some collections under the name of D. cucullatuvi 

 giga7iteum . — hidia ; Sikki7n . 



D. pulclielllini, Eoxh. — An exceedingly pretty dwarf species 

 with terete striate decumbent proliferous stems, oblong- 

 lanceolate leaves, and solitary flowers gi'owing from the joints 

 of the leafless stems ; it loses its leaves after it has finished 

 growing, and generally begins to show flower in February all 

 up the stem, lasting two weeks in bloom. The sepals are 

 pale purple, the petals much larger, oval obtuse, of a deep 

 purple-lilac, and the lip broadly orbicular, concave, villous, 

 with a large blotch of orange in the centre surrounded by a 

 zone of white and tipped with purple, the whole margin being 

 beautifully and finely fringed. The plant does well in a 

 basket with moss. There is some doubt as to this being 

 the true plant of Roxburgh, who describes it as having flowers 

 in racemes, but it is certainly the D. pulchellum of gardens, 

 as figured by Hooker, Loddiges, and Maund, quoted below. — 

 India: Sylhet. 



¥lG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6037 ; Loddiges, Boi. Cab., t. 1935 ; Maund, Botanist, 



D. rtLOdopterygium, Rchb. f. — This species is something in 

 the way of D. Parishii ; the stems, however, are much longer, 

 and more erect. The flowers are pink tinged with rose, and 

 instead of two blotches have on each side the base half a 

 dozen streaks of purple, while the disk is covered with little 

 warts instead of the velvety hairs so conspicuous in'D. Parishii. 

 — Buimah. 



D. rhodOStoma, Pichb. /. — One of Messrs. Veitch's hybrids, 

 produced between D. Huttoni and D. sanguinolentum. In 

 growth it resembles D. MacCartliieB. The flowers are white, 

 the sepals and petals as well as the lip tipped with bright 

 rosy magenta. It blooms in September. We saw this plant 

 flowering freely in the collection of W. Lee, Esq., Down- 

 side, Leatherhead. — Garden hybrid. 



D. rlLOmheum. — See Dendeobium aueeum. 



D. sanguinolentum, Lindley. — A distinct and delicately 

 beautiful evergreen species, having terete pendulous stems, 



