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D. "Wallicllii, Hort. — This beautiful kind resembles D. 

 nohile in its general appearance, but has much taller stems, 

 darker foliage, and richer-coloured flowers, and is possibly a 

 fine form of that valuable species. It blooms during the 

 winter and spring months, and with care may be retarded 

 until the summer, when it makes a noble and valuable speci- 

 men for exhibition purposes. The treatment recommended 

 for D. nohile suits this plant also. — India. 



D. "Wardianum, Warner. — A magnificent species, one of 

 the finest in cultivation, and a splendid match for the beautiful 

 D. Falconeri, which it somewhat resembles in its thickened 

 and knotted stem, than which, however, it is much stouter, 

 and also easier of cultivation. The stems are stout, terete, 

 somewhat thickened at the nodes, pendulous, from two to 

 three feet long, the younger ones furnished with oblong- 

 lanceolate acute leaves, which fall away, after which the 

 flowers are produced in twos or threes, each flower measuring 

 upwards of three and a half inches in diameter. The colour 

 of the sepals and petals is white tipped with magenta, the 

 great cucuUate lip having the same colours and in addition a 

 large rich orange blotch on the convolute base and disk, the 

 throat spotted on each side with deep crimson. It blooms 

 about May, and continues a considerable time in perfection. 

 It is found to thrive best suspended in a basket, or on a block. 

 This fine plant was first flowered by T. Ward, Esq., of 

 Southampton. 



YiG.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 19 ; III. Hort., 3 ser., t. 277 ; Jennings, 

 Orch., t. 2 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., viii. 240, fig. 50 (specimen plant). 



D. "Wardianum candiduin, Low. — A fine white-flowered 

 variety of this noble species, which first flowered in the collec- 

 tion of E. G. Wrigley, Esq., Broadoaks, Bury, Lancashire. It 

 is very rare, and was a chance importation amongst a large 

 consignment of Orchids from Assam. 



D. "Wardiailimi giganteum, Williams and Moore. — A magni- 

 ficent variety of this grand Orchid, altogether stouter in all its 

 parts than the type, as first introduced. It sometimes produces 

 growths as much as five feet in length and of great thickness, 

 and is altogether more vigorous in its habit as well as more 

 erect in its mode of growth than the original D. Wardianum. 

 The flowers are of the same colours, and similarly marked, 



