320 ORCHIP-GROWEB'S MANUAL. 



^nd being of a bright yellow with, broad sepals and petals, they are very 

 showy ; the lip is brighter yellow, recurved, with the front lobe concave ; they 

 grow in a Ipng erect raceme, forked at the base, which terminates the scape. — 

 India. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 170. 



C. PUNCTATUM, lAndley.— This, like C. Andersoni, is a noble plant, but it 

 is not so tall, and is a more profuse bloomer. It has cylindrical slightly com- 

 pressed stems 2 feet or more in length, crowned with a tuft of six or eight long 

 linear-lanceolate curved leaves, which render it a striking object in an Orchid 

 collection, even when out of bloom. The scape arising from the base of the 

 stem is erect, nearly 3 feet high, spotted with purple-brown, and bearing a 

 panicle of large handsome flowers, which are yellow, spotted with red, the lip 

 having a broad red-purple margin ; they are produced in April and May. In 

 addition to the flowers the large bracts at the base of each branch are also 

 marked in the same manner as the sepals and petals, which greatly increases 

 the display of colour. — West Indies ; Brazil. 



Tig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3507; Sertnni Oroli., t. 12; rOrchidopldle, 1885, p. 270; 

 Orcliid Album, v. t. 202 ; Lindcnia, viii. t. 344 ; VoUeh's Man. Orch. PL, ix. p. 38. 



Syn. — Epidendrum puactatum. 



C. PUNCTATUM SAINT LEGERIANUM,Hbii.— This variety was discovered 

 in Central Paraguay by M. de St. Leger, and was first exhibited by Mr. 

 Cuming, gardener to A. H. 8mee, Esq., of Hackbridge, before the Eoyal 

 Horticultural Society on March 9th, 1886, when it was awarded a 1st Class 

 Certificate. It is a superior form of the type, having brighter markings on 

 the bracts and flower segments. — Paraguay. 



Fig.— 7o-«;'K. o/ifoj'i., 1886, xii.p. 255, f.46; Gavd. Citron., 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 181, 

 i. 20. 



DENDROBIUM, Swartz. 



(Tribe Epidendreae, subtribc Dendrobieae.) 

 A very extensive as well as magnificent genus of Orchids, partly- 

 consisting of plants with tall jointed stems, bearing lateral or pseudo- 

 terminal racemes of flowers, and partly of pseudo-bulbous species which 

 have their floral racemes terminal. Some of the species produce very 

 large flowers, which are delicate in colour, and delightfully fragrant ; 

 some of them blossom very freely, and are very ornamental ; some are 

 evergreen, retaining their leaves all the year round, whilst others are 

 deciduous, flowering on the ripened leafless stems. Being, however, a 

 large genus, comprising some hundreds of species, it contains also many 

 plants of but little interest to the amateur, though well deserving culti- 

 vation in a botanical collection. Those we describe below are among the 

 .finest in cultivation. Their chief peculiarity consists in the base of the 



