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broad and firm, and the very large flowers grow in pairs, from the joints near 

 the top. The flowers have thfe sepals and petals creamy white, while the very 

 large squarish flat lip is of the same colour, with a crimson blotch on each side 

 near the base. It blooms in May and June, lasting a long time in perfection, 

 and is a distinct Orchid, and a fine showy plant for exhibition. Mr. Lobb 

 describes the wild plant as producing the flowers in racemes of five or six 

 together. It thrives well on a block with sphagnum moss, or it will do well 

 grown in baskets with sphagnum, and seems to be quite at home, for the bulbs 

 become very strong. It requires plenty of water during the growing season, 

 enjoys an abundance of light, and likes the warmest house. — Moulmein. 



Fig.— Pa-vton, M. Gard., ii. t. ,57 ; Flon- dcs Sn-ivn, t. 721 ; Zem. Jard. Fl., t. 203 ; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 5130 ; Batem. Second Cent. Orch. PL, t. 173. 



D. ALBUM, Wight. — This distinct species was introduced by Messrs 

 Loddiges as far back as 1842. The pseudobulbs are pendulous, from 1 to 2 feet 

 , long ; the flowers are produced on the current year's growths in company with 

 the foliage ; sepals and petals nearly equal in size, all of a creamy white colour ; 

 lip three-lobed, white stained with yellow on the disk. Flowers in August and 

 September. — Neilgherry Hills, India. 



Fig. — Wight, leones. t. 164.5; Paxton's Fl. Gard.,ii. p. 17.5 ; Bot. Reg., t. 54 ; Bot. 

 3fag., t. 4640 (J?, aduexim) ; Orchid Album, ix. t. 407. 



Syn. — D. a^uemn. 



D. AMOENUM, Wallich. — A very pretty species, producing long slender 

 fascicled pendulous stems 2 feet long, linear-lanceolate acuminate wavy 



leaves, and short racemes, one- 

 to three - flowered, from the 

 nodes of the stem. The sepals 

 and petals are pure white, 

 tipped with magenta, the lip 

 broadly ovate with a trumpet- 

 shaped mouth, white, with the 

 tip deep magenta-purple mar- 

 ked with three deeper coloured 

 veins, and the concave base 

 yellow with a velvety surface. 

 The flowers are very fragrant. 

 — East Indies : Nepaul and 

 Sikkim, 6,000 feet elevation. 



¥ia.— Bot. Mag., t. 6199 ; 

 Xnoiolen and Westc, Floral Cab., 

 iii, t. 117; Gard. Chron., U.S., iii., 

 p. 305, figs. 57, 58 ; Id., xvi. p.625, 

 f. 126. 



DENBEOBIDM AMOENUM. 



D. ANOSMUM, Lindley.—A. magnificent species, in the way of D. superbum, 

 but not having the rhubarb scent which is characteristic of the flowers of that 

 species ; the sepals and petals, moreover, are broader, thus forming fuller and 

 better-shaped flowers; the long thick pendent stems are like those of 

 B. superhum, and the foliage and general aspect of the plant are similar ; the 

 flowers are large, and produced in pairs at the nodes, the colour being a 



