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D. mesochlorum. 



Eudendrobium — Fcisciculata. Stems tufted, slender, 15 — 20 inches 



long. Leaves linear, acute, 4 — 5 inches long. Flowers 1J inches across, 



in fascicles of twos and threes on pale purplish pedicels ; sepals and 



petals white more or loss tinted with pale rose-purple towards the 



tip, the former linear-oblong, the latter oval-oblong ; lip clawed, broadly 



oblong, rolled over the column into the form of a funnel, white with 



a few purple streaks near the base, and with a large yellow-green 



disc. 



Dendrobium mesochlorum, Lindl, in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub. t. 36. Paxt. Fl. Gard. 

 I. p. 63, icon. xyl. only. 



First introduced by us from India, in 1847, through Thomas Lobb, 



and recently re-introduced to the Royal Gardens at Kew and other 



places.* The pleasant violet fragrance of its medium-sized flowers, 



which are produced in profusion in May, renders it a very desirable 



plant. The specific name, from /neaog (mesos), " middle," and ^Xwpog 



(chloros), " green," refers to the greenish disc of the lip. 



D. Moorei. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. A dwarf tufted plant. Stems terete, 4 — 6 



inches long, with 3 — 5 oval-oblong, leathery leaves at their apex. Scapes 



hliform, bearing at their extremity a raceme of 6 — 10 pure white 



flowers. Sepals and petals linear-lanceolate ; lip similar but shorter, 



and with a small triangular lobe on each side below the middle. 



Dendrobium Moorei, F. Muell. Frag. Phytol. Austral. VII. p. 29 (1869—71). 

 Benth. Fl. Austral, VI. p. 281. Rchb. in Gard. Chron. X. (1878), p. 139. 



A small white-flowered species sent to us, in 1878, by Mr. Charles 



Moore, Director of the Botanic Garden at Sydney, New South 



Wales, to whom it is dedicated. It is a native of Lord Howe's 



Island, where it was discovered, in 1869, by Mr. Fitzgerald, author 



of a fine illustrated work on Australian orchids, growing " on 



precipices, among the mountains, and on the mossy branches of 



trees which hang over the cliffs." 



D. moschatum. 



Eudendrobium — Calostachyce. Stems cylindiic, erect, 4—6 feet high, 

 leafy throughout. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, leathery, 4 inches long, per- 

 sistent two years. Eacemes from the uppermost joints of the previous 

 year's shoots, 7 — 15 flowered. Flowers 3 — 4 inches in diameter, with 

 a faint musk fragrance ; sepals oval-oblong, pale nankeen-yellow, veined 



* We regret that the above meagre information respecting the habitat of Dendrobium 

 mesochlorum is all we can give, the records of Lobb's orchid collections having, unfortun- 

 ately, been lost many years ago. 



