68 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [MaARcH, 1908, 
ten inches high. It is a very fine example of good culture. The species is 
very accommodating, and is often grown remarkably well in an ordinary 
stove or cucumber house, and rested in a vinery. It is invaluable for 
cutting, and lasts a long time in water if the stems éan be cut with the 
flowers attached. 
D. BENSON (fig. rr) is another very handsome species, having ‘creamy 
white flowers with a yellow disc to the lip, on which usually occur two 
maroon eye-like blotches. It is a dwarfer plant than the preceding, and 
equally floriferous, though it often has the reputation of being difficult to 
grow, which is evidently the result of unsuitable treatme: nt, for Mr. James 
Cypher once remarked :—‘I have grown it for eight years, and at the end 
Fig. 11. DENDROBIUM BENSON&, 
of that period had finer bulbs than those imported. I believe that many, or 
nearly all, are lost | by having too much 
and even when os new growths are several inches high they should receive 
very little water.” It js particularly liable to the attacks of red spider, 
which, however, can be kept in checl 
water during winter or early spring, 
k by sponging with the usual insecticides: 
It isa Burmese species, and was originally discovered by Colonel Benson, and 
introduced by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in 1866. The locality was given 
as mountains near rales west of Prome, at an altitude af alas 1,500 feet, 
vards as far as the latitude of Mor iimein. The late 
Major-General perkaley stated th 
whence it extends southw: 
at the form found in the Kareen hills, not 
= om ( r icq j mencaly c« ric > ? 
lar from Shoaghyn, is immensely superior to the Arracan form. The 
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