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flush in the tube of the lip. Although they had lost their purple pigment, 
they still retained the peculiar rhubarb scent that is a well-known 
-characteristic of the species, but it was not quite so strong. The variety 
Dearei appeared in the collection of Lt.-Col. Deare, of Englefield Green, in 
1882, receiving a First-class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural 
Society on April nth of the same year under the name of D. macrophyllum 
var. Dearei. It was well figured by Mr. Day in April, 1886 (Coll. Draw, 
xlix. t. 49), from a plant then in Baron Schroder’s collection. The variety 
Burkei named in 1883 has a light purple throat, while in the variety 
Huttoni, first known in 1869, the same part is bright purple. 
Dendrobium superbum was one of the discoveries of Cuming, in the 
neighbourhood of Manila, during his travels in the Philippine Islands, 
1836-40, when many splendid Orchids were discovered and sent to 
European amateurs. Cuming sent this Dendrobe direct to Messrs. 
Loddiges, in whose nursery at Hackney it flowered in 1839. It was 
described in the Botanioal Register of that year under the name D. 
macrophyllum by Dr. Lindley, who overlooked the fact that six years 
previously another species had been described under the same name. 
D. superbum delights in plenty of warmth and moisture, and in some of 
its native localities the bulbs attain a length from 6-7 feet, and have been 
known to carry as many as 100 flowers on each. Under cultivation, these 
figures are not obtained, mainly on account of insufficient heat and moisture, 
-but results quite equalling other Dendrobiums are generally achieved. 
L.BLIA Dayana. —This pretty little species was described by Reichen- 
bach in 1876, from a flower sent by Mr. John Day, of Tottenham, after 
-whom it was named. “ An unexpected and lovely plant,” stages the author, 
Take a Laelia pumila and give the lip a very dark purplish border, similar 
very dark veins covered with dark low lamellae ; this is the Laelia Dayana, 
named in honour of my excellent correspondent, Mr. Day, who most kindly 
sent me seven glorious flowers of this new Brazilian plant.” Two some¬ 
what similar species are L. pumila and L. praestans, but L. Dayana can 
be easily distinguished by the five to seven narrow keels which traverse the 
lip, being higher in the centre and of a rich dark purple colour. The flowers 
•are produced without any protecting sheath, and about the month of 
September and October. A First-class Certificate was awarded to the 
plant exhibited at the R.H.S. by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., in 1877, but 
strange to say it did not flower until the month of January. Of late years 
this neat-growing cool-house species has become very scarce in cultivation, 
and on that account it is pleasing to receive a fine typical example from the 
collection of Dr. Fred. Bedford, who cultivates it successfully at Dover- 
-court, Fulford, York. 
