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D. AINSWORTHII, Moore.~A beautiful and free-blooming hybrid, between 

 D. noUle and D. aurevm (heteroca/rpwm) ; the stems resemble those of JD. nobile, 

 and the plant is quite as free a grower as that parent, blossoming from the 

 mature stems; the leaves are linear-oblong; the flowers, which are produced 



DENDEOBIUM AINSWOETHII. 



(From the Gardeners' Chroniele.') 



from Januar3- to March, are deliciously scented, the sepals and petals pure 

 white, the lip marked with a large central feathered blotch of rich bright 

 amaranth or claret-purple. This plant was raised by Mr. Mitchell, when gardener 

 to the late Dr. Ainsworth, of Manchester. — Oarden hybrid. 



FiG.— Gard. Cliron., N.s.,i. p. 443, figs. 93, 94 ; ld.,v\n. p. 166, figs. 30. 31, 32 (specimen 

 plant) ; Id., xvi. p. 625, f . 1 25 ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., 1. 196 ; FlorM and Pom., 18/4, p. 1 14, 

 with figs. ; Lindcnia, vii. t. 297 ; Wanti-r, Sd. Orch. PI., iii. t. 30 ; Veitch's Man. Orch. 

 PZ./iii. p. 186. 



D. AINSWORTHII ROSEUM, Moore.— A. very handsome deeper coloured 

 variety of the preceding, in which the sepals and petals are of a bright clear 

 rosy magenta, and the lip amaranth crimson with a dark spot, feathered at the 

 edge, and traversed by deeper crimson veins. It flowers in February and 

 March, and was raised, we believe, in the same batch of seedlings as the 

 foregoing. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Orohid Album, i. t. 20. 



D. ALBO-SANGUINEUM, Lindley. — A distinct and compact-growing plant, 

 with thick erect knobby stems a foot high, and thicker upwards. The leaves are 



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