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DENDROBIUM ATROVIOLACEUM. 
THE annexed figure, which represents a good specimen of the beautiful 
Dendrobium atroviolaceum, has been reproduced from a photograph kindly 
sent by Charles Winn, Esq., The Uplands, Selly Hill, Birmingham, who 
flowered it some few months ago. The species is a native of New Guinea, 
and was introduced by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, in whose 
establishment it flowered in 1890, when it was described under the above 
name (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1890, 1., p. 512). It is allied to D. 
Fig. I2.—DENDROBIUM ATROVIOLACEUM. 
macrophyllum, A. Rich., but is readily distinguished by the absence 
of the yellowish-green pubescence on the pedicels and back of the sepals 
so characteristic of that species, and by its far brighter colours. Sir 
_ Joseph Hooker, when figuring it in the Botanical Magazine (t. 7371), 
very well remarked, ‘Of all Dendrobes known to me I cannot recall 
amongst recent discoveries one so strikingly unlike its congeners in 
coloration, and at the same time so beautiful in this respect, as D. 
atroviolaceum.” Fortunately, it has proved thoroughiy amenable to 
cultivation—or perhaps it would be more correct to say that we have now 
