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which are of a delicate purple when young, and terminate in 

 a few ovate-lanceolate leaves, which are also purplish beneath. 

 It grows to the length of three or four feet, and blooms from 

 the end of the old stems, which continue flowering for years. 

 The flowers grow in pairs, and are crowded together so 

 as to form a close bunch ; the sepals and petals are pale 

 fawn tipped with deep violet, and the lip is of the same 

 colours. It blooms during the summer and autumn months, 

 and lasts two weeks in good condition. This will do either in 

 a basket or pot, with peat or moss. — Ceylon. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 6. 



D. sangmnolentum superbum, Hon. — This plant is a 



great improvement on the type, handsome as that is. The 

 variety is much stronger in growth, producing longer spikes 

 of very much larger flowers, which are of a creamy white 

 tipped with dark rich purple. This variety was sent to us a 

 few years ago with a consignment of PhalcBnojysis. — Borneo. 



D. Schroderi, Williams. — A. handsome kind, sometimes 

 called Schroder's variety of D. densijioruvi. It grows to the 

 same height as D. Farmeri, which it somewhat resembles in 

 appearance, and has foliage of the same colour. The sepals 

 and petals are white tinged with pale pink, and the lip is 

 bright yellow with a strong orange tint at the base. It 

 blossoms in April and May, and continues about ten days in 

 perfection. It grows best in a pot in peat. This is one of 

 the finest of the Dendrobes, and is still rare. It can be easily 

 distinguished from any other kind by its stems. — India. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 502. 

 Syn. — Z>. densiflorvm Schroderi. 



B. SCabrilingue, I/«nc?Ze?/. — A beautiful sweet-scented Orchid 

 of remarkably easy culture, producing its blossoms in spring. 

 The stems are erect, a span high, and somewhat clavate, with 

 ligulate-oblong unequally emarginate leaves, and numerous 

 flowers produced laterally in pairs on both leafy and leafless 

 stems. When they first open the flowers have been noted to 

 be green or greenish white, but after a day or so they change 

 to pure white, except the lip, which has the acute erect side 

 lobes green streaked with purple, and the much longer 

 recurved front lobe yellow with deep orange furrows along 

 the disk, and striped with crimson. They yield a delicious 

 perfume similar to that of Wallflowers. It belongs to the D. 



