DENDROBIUM. 



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t J?", ' ^"^^y-—^ very distinct and handsome plant, growing in the way 



ot ^. longtcomu, with upright terete nigro-hirsute stems 1 foot high, furnished 

 with dark green ovate-oblong obliquely-tipped foliage, and producing from the 

 side ot the stem near the top dense seven-flowered racemes of large distinctly 

 spurred flowers, measuring about 2 inches across, of a bright yellow colour, witli 

 SIX red veins on the base of the lip, set off by crimson fringes. This will succeed 

 in a pot or basket, or on a block, provided it has a liberal supply of water when 

 m vigorous growth. We have seen it bloom in summer and also late in autumn.— 

 Borneo. 



Fig.— £ot. Mag., t. 5303 ; Flore den Sevres, t. 2395. 



D. LOWIl PLEIOTRICHUM, HM. /-A variety without the red lines on the 

 lip. 



D. LUNA, Hort. Lain-ence. — This hybrid is a crosis between D. Ainaworl h i i 

 and D. Findlayanum. The growth of this favours the latter parent, but the 

 bulbs are not quite so distinctly noded. The flowers are very delicate and 

 beautiful ; sepals and petals yellowish- white, faintly tipped with pale rose ; lij) 

 white with pale yellow throat. Blooms in January. Sweet scented.— Garden 

 hybrid. 



D. LUTEOLUM, Bateman. — A very distinct and desirable species, in which 

 the stems are erect and terete, and bear lanceolate leaves, and simultaneously on 

 the upper part of the stems a 

 profusion of short lateral two- 

 to four-flowered racemes of pale 

 primrose-coloured flowers, of which 

 the lip has roundish lateral lobes, 

 and the middle lobe a, downj- 

 yellow disk marked by a few 

 red lines. It flowers during the 

 months of January- and February, 

 and lasts several weeks in perfec- 

 tion. — Moulmein. 



YlGr.—Bnt. ]l/ag.,t.5iil ; Veitcli'-i 

 Mini. Oreh. PI., iii. p. 57 ; Journ. of 

 Hort., 18S6, xii. p. 175, f. 29. 



D. LUTEOLUM CHLOROCEN- 

 TRUM, Be]ib. /.—This variety is 

 altogether superior to the type, the 

 flowers being much larger and of 



DENDEOBIUM LUTEOLUM CHLOBOCENTIIUM. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') 



One of 



better substance. It bears tufts of green hairs on the middle of the lip. 

 our own introductions. — Moulmein. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., N.S., xix. p. 3i0, f. 18 : Orehid Album, vii. t. 322. 



D. MACCARTHIAE, Hooher.—The "Rainy-month flower" or "May-flower" 

 of Ceylon, a really splendid species, with terete pendulous stems as thick as a 

 goosequill, green spotted with crimson, and having a bulbiform base; these 



