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flowered. Flowers about an inch in diameter, crowded, ivory-white, except 



the anterior lobe of the lip, which is bright amethyst-purple ; sepals and 



petals similar and sub-equal, ovate-oblong, acute ; lip elongate, linear- 



spathulate, apiculate, convex at the middle, and incurved at the margins 



except towards the apex ; spur long obtuse. Column exposed. 



. Dendrobium amethystoglossum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 109. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5968. 



Introduced by us in 1872 from the Philippine Islands, through 



M. Gustav Wallis, who sent a single plant mixed with Dendrobium 



taurinum. It has recently been re-imported in restricted numbers, 



so that it may be presumed to be a rare species. Its beautiful 



racemes of white and purple flowers, which appear in January and 



February, offer a striking contrast to the inelegant habit of the plant. 



D. amoenum. 



Eudbndrobium — Fcisciculatd. Stems slender, 12 — 18 inches long, with 

 internodes 1^ — 2|- inches long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3 — 4 inches long, deciduous. Flowers about 2 inches in diameter, 

 usually solitary, sometimes in twos and threes ; sepals and petals ovate- 

 lanceolate, white, tipped with amethyst-purple ; lip with a convolute claw 

 and broadly ovate limb, minutely notched at the margin, and pubescent 

 towards the base, amethyst-purple bordered with white, and with a 

 yellow blotch near the base. 



Dendrobium amoenum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 78 (1831). Bot. Mag. t. 6199. 

 Gard. Chron. III. (1875) p. 305. 



One of the first Dendrobes known to science, it having been 



discovered in Nepaul by Dr. Wallich, who communicated it to Dr. 



Lindley in 1828; but one of the latest brought under cultivation, 



it having been sent to Mr. Bull, of Chelsea, so recently as 1874, 



by Major- General Berkeley, who found it growing on trees on the 



low ranges of hills between Dhera Dhoon and Mussoone (Himalayas), 



where the climate is temperate the whole year round, with hoar frost 



in winter. Its flowers are of medium size, but they emit a delightful 



violet fragrance, which will secure for the plant a place in many 



collections ; it flowers in the summer months. 



D. Aphrodite. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems 6 — 12 inches long, swollen at 

 the joints. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2 — 3 inches long, deciduous. 

 Flowers 2 inches across, solitary or in pairs from the uppermost joints ; 

 sepals lanceolate, pointed, cream colour ; petals ovate, broader than the 

 sepals but coloured like them ; lip sub-rhomboid, clawed, obscurely 

 three-lobed, the small side lobes incurved, the middle lobe large, saffron- 

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