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while the small lip is transversely blotched with purple. It is a free-flowering 

 and desirable variety, and succeeds well in the cool house after its growth is 

 complete. — Queensland. 



Via.—Bnt. Maff., t. 5261 (2). imUi) ; Gard. Chron. S.S., 1877, vii. p. 112 ; OrcJdd 

 Allm.m, T. t. 19o ; Vcitch's Man. Orch. PI., iii, p. 74. 

 Syn.— i>. milii. 



D. SPLENDIDISSIMUM, Bchh. /.—A handsome hybrid, raised in Messrs. 

 Veitch's establishment at Chelsea. It is a cross between B. nohile and D. aureum, 

 and in growth most resembles the flrst-named parent. The sepals and petals are 

 white faintly tinged with rose, and the lip is white, having a faint tinge of yellow 

 in it, and a rich deep purple blotch in the centre. It flowers in January and 

 February. B. Ainswoi'thii and B. Leechianmn have the same parentage. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



D. SPLENDIDISSIMUM GRANDIFLORUM, Hort. VeHch.— The flowers of this 

 variety are much larger than the preceding, the disk of the lip being unusually 

 large and of a rich Indian-purple colour, with a pale yellow margin and rosy- 

 purple apex. 



Fig. — VeitaU's Man. Oroh. PL, iii. p. 91. 



D. STRATIOTES, Uchh. f. — ^An interesting and handsome species, which is 

 described by the late Professor Eeichenbach as follows': — "This highly curious 

 and marvellous Bendrobe bears a raceme of rather large flowers, surpassing 

 those of B. taurinum ; the dorsal sepal is ligulate, acute, and twisted, as also 

 are the lateral sepals, which have an extinguisher-shaped chin ; sepals linear 

 acuminate, twisted, surpassing the petals in size, lip tri-fid, side-laciniae rhombic, 

 with lateral partly rough veins, and three keels in the mid-line between them, 

 the lateral ones angular in front of the base of the mid-lacinia, mid-lacinia 

 elliptic, acute, without an isthmus ; column with a right-angle on each side at 

 the top. I had a very good inflorescence sent me in spirits. The colour appears 

 to have been white and purple. It comes from the Sondaic Archipelago, having 

 been discovered by the Lindenian collectors, and was kindly sent me by Director 

 Lucien Linden " {Gardeners' Chronicle, N.S., 1886, xxv. p. 266). — Malay Archipelago. 



Fig. — Lindenia, i. t. 43 ; V OrchidopMle, 1886, p. 264 (plate) ; Hill. Hort., xxxiii. 

 t. 602; Gard. C/mw.,N.S., 1886, xxvi.p. 177,f . 34 ; Jwwb. f</'7:?()rt., 1888, xvi.,p. 61,f.9. 



D. STREBLOCERAS, llclib.f. — This species was introduced with B. stratiotes 

 by Mr. Linden. " The flowers are smaller than those of B. stratiotes, like those 

 of B. antennatum ; the sepals and petals are as in B. stratiotes, chin narrower, 

 side laoiniae nearly square, obtuse angled, isthmus well developed; anterior 

 lacinia nearly triangular, basilar angles blunt ; there are five keels over the 

 median area of the lip, median one most obscure, ceasing in an angular elevation 

 in front of the apex of the lip ; the side keels are adorned with two undulations, 

 and cease higher up in the disk of the mid-lacinia ; the outer keels run out into 

 an angulus at each side of the isthmus ; there are two small lamellar auriculae 

 on each side in front of the base; column blunt on each side of anther" (H. G. 

 Reichenbach, in Oardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1886, xxv. p. 266). — Sunda Islands, 

 Malay Archipelago. 



