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stems bear a few lanceolate acuminate leaves on their upper part, and opposite to 

 them at the nodes a four- or five-flowered raceme of extremely beautiful flowers, 

 which are flattened vertically so as to appear half expanded, and consist of 

 lanceolate sepals, oblong lanceolate broader petals of a bright pinkish-rose, and a 

 spathulate-trapeziform lip, which is white in the lower part, with small purple 

 spots in the throat, a large purple blotch on the disk, and an ovate rosy-pink 

 front lobe marked with lines of darker rose. This splendid Orchid is diflScult to 

 grow, and should be kept in a small basket or on a block with sphagnum, as near 

 the light as possible. It is one of the finest of the Bendrohes, blooms during the 

 summer, and has the advantage of lasting six weeks or two months in perfection. 

 The flowers are nearly 3 inches long. — Ceylon forests. 



Fig. — Sot. Mag., t. 4886 ; Batein. Second Cent. Orch. PL, t. 158 ; Oreldd Album, vii. 

 t. 319; Lindenia, viii. t. 349; VcitcKi Man. Orch. PL, iii., p. .58. 



D. MACFARLANEI, Rchh. /. — The pseudobulbs are stated to resemble those of 

 B. Farmerii. It was introduced by the Bev. S. M. Macfarlane from New Guinea 

 in 1882. A glance at our illustration will give a good idea of the size and form 



DENDEOBIUM MACFABLASTEI. 



(From the Gardening Woj'ld.) 



of the flower. The sepals and petals are pure white, lip also white with a purple 

 area around the purple callus, and a large purple spot at the end of each side 

 lacinia. — New Guinea. 



Fig.— Gardening World, iii. p. 247 (woodcut) ; Journ. of Hort., 1890, xx. p. 1 77, f .;26 ; 

 Peio/tenbachia, 2nd ser., ii. t. 61 (_D. Johnsonlae') ; Gard. Mag., 1892, p. 102. 



SyK — D. Jnhnsoniae ; P. niveum. 



