DENDROWUM. 333 



D. CRYSTALLINUM, Edih. /.—A distinct and beautiful species, with terete 

 somewhat slender striate pendulous stems, which are destitute of the knotted 

 joints so conspicuous in some of the allied plants. The distichous linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate leaves are produced on the young stems, and fall away 

 before the flowers are developed. The flowers are of moderate size, and freely 

 produced ; the sepals and petals white tipped with magenta ; the lip orange 

 at the base and slightly tipped with magenta. It is a most desirable plant, 

 flowering during the spring and summer months. — Biirmalt. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 6319 ; Xc'iiia Orch., ii. t. 103 : Orclutl AVmm, x. t. 4-tl. 



D. CUPREUM.— See D. MOScniTUM ctjpreuji. 



D. CYBELE, Rolfe. — This hybrid was raised in the nurseries of Messrs. 

 J. Veitch & Sons, and is the result of a cross between D. Findluyanum and 

 D. nohile. The growth most resembles that of D. nohile. The flowers also 

 much resemble that species ; the sepals and petals are white, tipped with light 

 rose ; lip yellowish-white having a large blotch of deep crimson-purple at the 

 base. — Garden hybrid. 



D. D'ALBERTISII, Rclih. f. — A very pretty and distinct species introduced 

 by us from New Guinea. It is rather dwarf in habit, and has the peculiarity 

 of producing square tapering stems. The flowers 

 are produced in erect racemes, and are distinctly 

 spurred ; the sepals are pure white, and the lip 

 ^^t^iped with magenta-purple, forming a pleasing 

 contrast to the long narrow erect twisted emerald 

 green petals, which have been compared to the 

 horns of an antelope. It has an odour like that 

 of D. amoeniun. — New Guinea. 



■Fia.— Gai-d. Chron., N.S., x. p. 217, f. 41 (flower). 



D. DALHOUSIEANUM, WalUcli. — This is a 

 beautiful large-flowered evergreen species, with 

 stoutish terete sub-fusiform stems from 4 to 8 feet dendeobicm d'albehtisii. 



high, elegantly. marked with reddish-crimson; it ,„ ^i, ^ 7 , ^, • 7 % 

 . ." „ \ , , , _ . ,_ _ A ., (From the Gardeners Cnromclc.^ 



blooms from the old growths m March, April, 



and May, producing drooping lateral racemes of from five to seven flowers ; 



these flowers are large, fully 3 inches across, with the parts broad and strikingly 



effective ; the ovate sepals and much larger petals are of a tawny-yellow coloui' 



edged with rose ; the lip is oblong, constricted in the middle, glandularly villous 



and incurved in front, where it is whitish, the base pale yellowish, marked on 



each side with a large oblong purple-crimson blotch, the inner edge of which 



passes into coloured whisker-like fringes ; it lasts four or five days in beauty. 



This will grow either in a pot or basket, with moss. B. Dalhousieanum has been 



exhibited with forty -three flower spikes and four hundred and forty flowers, each 



4^ inches in diameter. — India. 



Fig.— Paxton, Mnrj. Sot., xi. p. ll'i, with tab. ; Bot. Reg., 1846, 1. 10 ; Flore des SerrrK. 

 t. 698 ; nil. Sort., 3rd ser., t. 423 ; Warner, Sol. Orch. PI., i. t. 22 ; Gnjffith, Icon. PI. 

 Asiat, ti. 5-7 ; Lindenii, vi. t. 251 ; Veiteh's Man. Oreh. PL, iii. p. 36. 



