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latifolivmi; it has pseudobulbs 12 to 18 inches long. The sepals and petals are 

 broader than those of B. Pierardii and bright rosy-purple in colour. Lip much 

 deeper in colour than the petals, fringed at the border and margined with white, 

 the whole being veined with purple. It should be grown in a basket or on a 

 block of wood. The variety Emerici differs in having a broader white or pale 

 yellow margin to the lip, and lighter coloured blotches. — Bwnnah. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, vil. t. 299 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1889, vi. p. 244, f. 33 (and 

 var. Dmcrici). 



D. PRIMULINUM, LinAley.—A. beautiful free flowering deciduous species, of 

 pendulous growth ; the stems terete and clustered, furrowed, a foot or more in 

 length, the young ones leafy at the top, the few leaves being oblong obtuse and 

 obliquely emarginate. The flowers are solitary ; the oblong sepals and petals 

 white tipped with pink, the broadly obovate downy lip pale sulphur-yellow, its 

 sides convolute at tte base and streaked with purple ; they are produced in two 

 rows along the stem in April and May, and last in perfection ten days. This 

 species is best grown in a basket with sphagnum, and makes a fine plant for 

 exhibition. — India. 



YiG.— GartenJtora, t. 326 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5008 ; Vcltch's Man. Orch. PL, iii. p. 70 ; 

 Orchid Album., vi. t. 286. 



Stn. — D. nobile pallidiflonm. 



D. PRIMULINUM GIGANTEUM, Eort.—A magnificent variety, the flowers of 

 which are very large, white tipped with pink, the sulphur-coloured lip being 

 particularly fine. This is a free-flowering plant, which ought to be in every 

 collection, and is best grown in a basket, as it is pendulous in habit. It is 

 grown in some collections under the name of B. cucullatum giganteum. — India : 

 Silckim. 



D. PULCHELLUM, lioxb. — An exceedingly pretty dwarf species with terete 

 striate decumbent proliferous stems, oblong- lanceolate leaves, and solitary flowers 

 growing from the joints of the leafless stems ; it loses its leaves after it has 

 finished growing, and generally begins to show flower in February all up the 

 stem, lasting two weeks in bloom. The sepals are pale purple, the petals much 

 larger, oval obtuse, of a deep purple-lilac, and the lip broadly orbicular, concave, 

 villous, with a large blotch of orange in the centre surrounded by a zone of 

 white and tipped with purple, the whole margin being beautifully and finely 

 fringed. The plant does well in a basket with moss. There is some doubt as to 

 this being the true plant of Eoxburgh, who describes it as having flowers in 

 racemes, but it is certainly the D. pulchellum of gardens, as figured by Hooker, 

 Loddiges, and Maund, quoted below. — India ; Sylhet. 



Fig. — But. Mag'., t. 5037 ; Loddiges, But. Cab., t. 1985 ; Maund, Botanist, t. 5. 



D. " RAINBOW." — This is another cross which was obtained by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., between D. Findlayanum a.nd D. Ainsworthii ; pseudobulbs 

 intermediate between those of the two parents. The flowers measure SJ inches 

 across; sepals slightly twisted, rosy-purple; petals broad, white, the extremities 

 veined with rose-magenta; lip white, tipped with rose-magenta; throat deep 

 crimson-magenta, with a light orange zone around it. — Garden liyhrid. 



