DENDROBIUM. 



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pseudobulbs from the summits of the old ones. It is also said to be a robust 

 grower. The most obvious character derived from B. nobile is the absence of 



DEXDEOBIUM VESUS. 



(From the Journal of Horticulture.) 



the yellow disk of the lip " (R. A. Rolfe, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1890, vii. 

 p. 608). — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Journ. of Hort., 1891, xxii. p. 321, f. 59 ; Scichenbac/iia, 2ntl ser., ii. t. .jO. 



D. VIRGINEUM, Schh. /.—This is said to be a, lovely thing in the way of 

 D. infundihulum, with nigro-hirsute stems, the leaves oblong-ligulate bi-lobed at 

 the apex, and nearly twice as broad as those of that species. The flowers, which 

 are numerous, and grow in terminal racemes, are only two-thirds the size of those 

 of D. infundihulum; they are ivory white, greenish on the chin behind, and 

 marked fi-om the base of the three-lobed lip to the base of the roundish emargi- 

 nate crenulate middle lobe by two singular thickened light reddish lines, and 

 having also a reddish tint at the base of the column. Flowers during autumn.^ 

 Burmah. 



D. WALLICHII.— See D. -vobile Wallichiaxum. 



