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young, and terminate in a few ovate-lanceolate leaves, which are also purplish 

 beneath. It grows to the length of 3 or 4 feet, and blooms from the end of the 

 old stems, which continue flowering for years ; the flowers grow in pairs, and are 

 crowded together so as to form a close bunch ; the sepals and petals are pale fawn 

 tipped with deep violet, and the lip is of the same colours. It blooms during the 

 summer and autumn months, and lasts two weeks in good condition. This will 

 do either in a basket or pot, with peat or moss. — Ceylon. 

 Fig.— Bot. Bei;., 18i3, t. 6. 



D. SANGUINOLENTUM SUPERBUM, fforf.— This plant is a great improve- 

 ment on the type, handsome as that is. The variety is much stronger in growth, 

 producing longer spikes of very much larger flowers, which are of a creamy - 

 white tipped with dark rich purple. This variety was sent to us a few years ago 

 with a consignment of Phalaenopsis. — Borneo. 



D. SC ABRILINGUE, Lindktj. — A beautiful sweet-scented Orchid of remarkably 

 easy culture, producing its blossoms in spring. The stems are erect, a span high, 

 and somewhat clavate, with ligulate-oblong unequally emarginate leaves, and 

 numerous flowers produced laterally in pairs on both leafy and leafless stems ; 

 when they first open the flowers have been noted to be green or greenish-white, 

 but after a day or so they change to pure white, except the lip, which has the 

 acute erect side lobes green streaked with purple, and the much longer recurved 

 front lobe yellow with deep orange furrows along the disk, and striped with 

 crimson. They yield a delicious perfume similar to that of Wallflowers. It 

 belongs to the D.formomim section, in which the leaf -sheaths of the young growths 

 are covered with black hairs. — Moulmein. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5515 ; Bateman, Seeond Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 155. 

 Syn. — B. hedyosmmn. ^ 



~ D. SCHNEIDERIANUM, Mclih. /.—This is the result of a cross between 

 D. Findlayanum and B. aureum. The seed was grown in the collection of Oscar 

 Schneider, Esq., of Fallowfield, Manchester, the plants from which were raised 

 by Mr. Holmes, gardener to C. Moseley, Esq., of Grangethorpe, Manchester. 

 The flowers are large and showy, mostly produced in pairs on long pedicels ; 

 sepals and petals creamy- white tipped with rosy-purple ; the lip is acuminate 

 with a rosy-purple point, behind which is a white zone; the base of the lip is 

 downy, rich orange-yellow with numerous veins and streaks of orange or purple. 

 — Oarden hybrid. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ix. t. 411. 



D. SCHRODERI, Williams. — A handsome kind, sometimes called Schroder's 

 variety of D. densiflorum. It grows to the same height as B. Farmeri, which it 

 somewhat resembles in appearance, and has foliage of the same colour. The 

 sepals and petals are white tinged with pale pink, and the lip is bright yellow 

 with a strong orange tint at the base. It blossoms in April and May, and 

 continues about ten days in perfection. It grows best in a pot in peat. This is 

 one of the finest of the Bendrohes; and is still rare. It can be easily distinguished 

 from any other kind by its stems. — India. 



Via.— Floral 3Iag., t. 502, 



Stn. — B. densiflorum SohrSdcri. 



