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few and deep groon, these do not appear until after the flowers are past , 

 scape erect, with numerous acute sheathing bracts, few flowered, but these 

 are of a rich and bright azure-blue ; helmet acute, erect, and shortly spurred 

 behind ; lateral sepals oblong, obtuse ; petals smaller than the sepals ; lip oblong, 

 obtuse, toothed at the apex, having several alternate narrow stripes of white, and 

 reddish violet on the disk ; column short, tipped with reddish violet. — Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Fig. — Journ. Linn. Soc, xix. t. 34 ; OroJiid Album, ix. t. 399. 



D. GRANDIFLORA, Linn. — ^This fine plant attains the height of 1 foot or 

 18 inches, bearing on the stems numerous lanceolate acute leaves, and at the top 

 from two to five of its beautiful scarlet flowers, which are 3 to 4 inches in 

 diameter, with the large spreading lateral sepals crimson, and the dorsal one 

 paler on the outside, and within bluish delicately veined with crimson. The 

 blossoms are borne in June and July, and last a very long time in perfection. — ■ 

 South Africa. 



Fig.— Sot. Iteg.t. 926; Bot. Mag., t. 4073 ; Ganl. Cliron., N.S., 1875, iii. p. 441, 

 f. 90 ; Sortum Oi-oh., t. 49 ; Jlouli. First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 96 ; Lindenia, vii. t. 308 ; 

 Gavd. Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 665, f. 94 ; Id., 1891, ix. p. 365, f. 81 ; Reichcnbachia, 

 2nd ser., i. t. 15 ; Gard. Mag., 1893, p. 562. 



Stn. — D. uniflora. 



D. GRANDIFLORA SUPERBA, Jfoore.— This certainly ranks among the very 

 finest of greenhouse Orchids. It has a creeping underground stem which throws 

 up young shoots of a light green colour ; the flower stems grow to the height of 

 2 to 3 feet, bearing the lanceolate leaves, and at the top part from two to eight 

 flowers, each more than 4 inches in diameter, of a bright scarlet and crimson, 

 veined with pink; the blossoms are generally produced in June, July, and 

 August, and continue in perfection for five or six weeks. It makes a fine plant 

 for exhibition on account of its splendid colour. This plant was well grown 

 by the late Mr. Thomas Speed, at Chatsworth. "We remember on one occasion 

 receiving from him a spike which was 2 feet 6 inches in length and bore twelve 

 flowers. — South Africa. 



VlQ.— Warnn; Sol. Oreh.Pl., i. t. 36; Florist and Pom., 1863, p. 105, t. 221 ; 

 L" OrchidopUU, 1885, p. 277 (plate). 



D. INCARNATA, Lindley. — ^An old species which has only lately become 

 known to cultivators. The flowers, which measure about an inch in diameter, 

 are of a beautiful bright cinnabar-orange, except the dorsal sepal, which is deep 

 yellow spotted with bright red. — Madagascar. 



Fia.— Gard. Chron., Srd ser., 1892, xi. p. 618, f. 88; Gard. Mag., 1892, p. 157 

 (woodcat) ; Hot. Mag., t. 7243. 



D. MEGACERAS — See D. csiSsicoKXis. 



D. " PREMIER," Hort. Keiu. — This handsome hybrid was raised in the Royal 

 Gardens at Kew, and is a hybrid between B. Veitchii and D. tripeialoides. The 

 flowers, which are borne on spikes about 2 feet high, are 1^ inch wide, of a 

 beautiful rosy-magenta. It was exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at the 

 Drill Hall, on October 10, IWZ.— Garden hybrid. 



