AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



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Dendrobium. 



or more flowers which are 3in. wide ; sepals lance-shaped and 

 pointed ; petals as broad again, both coloured rosy-lilac, with 

 darker veins ; lip with two arching side lobes and an oblong, 

 pointed front one, the back, with the lateral sepals, forming a 



Fig. 69. PoRTiox of Flower-scape of Desurobium Phal.'enopsis 



(much reduced). 



broad spur; colour deep maroon in the throat, paler and striped 

 on the front lobe. This plant should be grown in a teak 

 basket, in the hottest and moistest stove, from which it should 

 never be removed, but allowed to rest by withholding water. 



