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Cyrtochilum flavescens — Mexico — 1830 — June. 

 Yellow flowers ; lip marked with red ; a very 

 good species. 



mystacinum — Peru — 1837— October. 



Flowers yellow. 



stellatum— Brazil — 1840 — September. 



Blooms on a beautiful spike of white flowers, 

 with lip resembling Cyrtochilum flavescens ; 

 but its stature is four times as large. 



maculatum — Vera Cruz— 1836 — August. 



Flowers greenish yellow, blotched with deep 

 purple ; lip white, stained with dull red. 

 Cyrtochilums require a moist stove ; they do well 

 in a low temperature, and delight in light tufty 

 peat, sphagnum, and potsherds. 



Class, Gynandria. Order, Monandria. 



Dendrobium moniliforme — China — 1824 — Winter 

 — Division. 



Sepals and petals a fine purple ; lip a beautiful 

 rose carmine. 



Languicornu — India— 1838 — Division. 



This species grows freely in fibry peat, 

 mixed potsherds and sphagnum ; its flowers are 

 white. 



chrysanthum — Nepaul — 1828 — Division. 



Large yellow flowers. This is a fine species, 

 blooming abundantly when grown strong, 



