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plant figured was grown in the collection of the late R. I. Measures, Esq. 
D. Bensonz has been successfully hybridised with D. nobile, D. monili- 
forme, D. Maccarthiz, and D. xX Cassiope, giving a group of very pretty 
little hybrids. 
D. ATROVIOLACEUM (fig. 12) is a plant of a totally different type. It is 
one of a group of several species found in New Guinea and the adjacent 
islands, of which the mossy-pedicelled D. macrophyllum is one of the 
earliest and best known. The leaves are usually two or three in number, 
and occur at the summit of the stem, from which point the inflorescence is 
Fig. 12. DENDROBIUM ATROVIOLACEUM. 
produced. D. atroviolaceum was introduced by Messrs. James Veitch & 
Sons, and flowered for the first time in Europe in 1890. It is easily 
distinguished from D. macrophyllum by the absence of pubescence from the 
pedicels. The sepals and petals are cream yellow, with numerous dusky 
brown spots, and the strongly three-lobed lip is deep violet purple, with 
some dull green markings outside. The flowers have a peculiar pendulous 
character, so that the richly-coloured lip is best seen from underneath. 
The New Guinea species should not be rested in a cool témperature, like 
