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beautiful rosy lilac, with a large deep purple-crimsou spot at the base of the 

 lip. It blooms during the spring months, the blossoms lasting two or three 

 weeks in perfection. Even now this is a scarce plant, and is best grown in a 

 basket, as it is drooping and deciduous. — Manilla^. 



Fia.—Paxtoii, Mag. But., xv. p. 97, with tab. ; Lliulenia, vi. t. 264. 



BYjST. — D. superbuvi anosmum. 



D. APHRODITE, Jlohb. /. — A charming species, with slender branching 

 stems, nearly a foot long, swollen at the joints, i.e., nodose. The leaves on the 

 younger stems are oblong-obtuse, but these fall away before the flowers are 

 developed; the latter are produced singly from the joints, 2|- to 3 inches across, 

 the smooth oblong-obtuse white sepals and petals spreading, the lip clawed, 

 with a white callous disk oh the claw, the sides inflexed, with a deep blood red 

 spot at the base, and the front lobe large, sub-rhomboid acute, deep orange with 

 a white margin and apex. It is a free and rapid grower, and very gay-looking 

 when in blossom, but is a shy bloomer, flowering for se\-eral seasons upon its 

 old growths. Blooms in spring. — Mouhnein. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5470 ; more diis Serves, t. 1582. 



Syn. — B. nodatum. 



D. AQUEUM. — See Dendrobium album. 



D. ARACHNITES, Rchh.f. — A very beautiful and distinct species, discdvei'ed 

 by Mr. Boxall, when travelling for Messrs. Low & Co. It is of a dwarf habit of 

 growth, and produces in profusion its very bright cinnabar-red flowers; the 

 sepals and petals are broad, linear, equal in size ; lip broader than the petals, 

 sometimes ligulate, and other times with a very attenuate anterior part ; flOwers 

 about 1 inch in diameter. We saw this plant well flowered in the collection of 

 W. Lee, Esq., late of Leatherhead. — Burmah. 



D. ASPASIA, Hort. — This handsome hybrid is a cross between D. aureum, 

 and D. Wardianum, and was raised both by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons and 

 C. Winn, Esq., of Birmingham. It is said to be a free grower and very floriferous. 

 The following description is taken frora.the Orchid Review ; — " The sepals and 

 petals are creamy white, tipped with light rosy purple, which is most distinct 

 on the petals; the lip has a. very large orange disk, on which is an irregularly 

 pencilled crimson blotch, in front of this is a cream-white area, and finally the 

 apex is rose-purple." — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Orchid Beview, i. p. 137, f. fl. 



Syn. — B. Wardiano-aureum. 



D. ATRO-VIOLACEUM, Rolfe. — A new and distinct species, introduced by 

 Messrs. James Veitch & Sons from Eastern New Guinea. It belongs to the 

 same group as D. macrophyllvmi. The pseudobulbs are clavate, tapering 

 downwards, persistent, furrowed, having near the apex two or three stout 

 leathery leaves ; flower spike terminal, erect ; sepals and petals fleshy in 

 texture, creamy-white, regularly and densely spotted with deep purple; the 

 lip is three-lobed, rich violet-purple within, green without. Flowers in spring. 

 — New Guinea. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, x. t. 444; Journ. of IIoH., 1894, xxviii. p. 65, f. 10; Gard. 

 Chrvn., 3rd ser., 1894, xv. p. 113, f. 12. 

 Syn. — D. Foriesii, Midleij. 



