AXD THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



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For its cultiva- 

 ecomniended lor 



Dendrobium. 



tongue-like front lobe, deep maroon, with a raised white crest. 

 The spur is two-lobed or douljle-chinned, whence the specific 

 name. The blossoms appear late in the autumn. Tropical 

 Australia, 1824. (B. M., t. 4S9S.) 



D. Brymerianum {Rclib. /.). — One of the most remarkable 

 of all Orchids. Pseudo-bulbs erect, as thick as a pencil, slightly 

 swollen in the middle, il't. or more long, yellowish. Leaves lance- 

 shaped, 4in. long, persistent. Flowers m racemes from the top of 

 the pseudo-bulbs, one to three in each raceme ; sepals and petals 

 equal, lin. long, spreading ; lip sometimes 3in. long by i-jin. 

 broad, the greater part of it cut up into long, branching, interlacing 

 filaments, forming a deep fringe to the central part, which is 

 heart-shaped and downy on the surface. The whole flower is a 

 beautiful golden-yellow colour. Lurma, 1S74. 

 tion, the plant requires the same treatment as 

 D. Liureum. It blossoms in 

 February or March. (Fig. 63; 

 B. M., t. 63S3.) 



Var. hisirioiuciDii has much 

 shorter pseudo-bulbs, smaller 

 flowers, and little or no fringe. 



D. cambridgeanum 

 (Paxf.). — A synonym of 

 D. oihreation. 



D. canaliculatum (R. 

 Br.). — A pretty greenhouse 

 species of easy culture. 

 Flowers sweet-scented, dis- 

 posed on a stem about tft. 

 long ; sepals and petals white 

 and yellow ; lip white, with 

 a mauve disk. North East 

 Australia, 1865. (B. M., 

 t- 5537-) 



D. cariniferum (i?£7;Z'./). 

 — Flowers white, in bunches 

 of four or more, from one 

 year and older bulbs; sepals 

 tinged with yellow at the 



tips; labellum orange, tipped with white and furnished with a 

 cinnabar-red crest. Pseudo-bulbs erect, evergreen, ift. long. 

 Burma, 1869. 



D. chrysanthum (IVall.). — A large-growing kind, the pseudo- 

 bulbs often attaining a length of 5ft. or 6ft., semi-erect, somewhat 



Fig. 63. Flower uf De.vdrobiuh 

 Bk\'-\ierianum 



(n^it, size). 



