DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM. 
Since first sent home by Gibson in 1837 this splendid species has 
held its own as one of the most delicately, lovely, exquisitely-colored 
species in the genus. The flowers are borne in twos and threes for 
three-parts of the length (often four feet) of the slender pendulous 
stems. The individual flowers are large, having cream-colored rose- 
flushed sepals ; yellowish, magenta tipped, ciliated petals, and a broad 
handsome lip, white, with two large rich orange blotches, a deep blotch 
of purple on the tip, the whole margin enriched with a dainty feather- 
like fimbriation. It grows freely in any stove, requiring plenty of 
moisture when growing, and a cooler rest. The plants offered are in 
splendid order, only just to hand, and present a very varied appearance; 
in fact, from the size of many of the bulbs, we suspect that the beautiful 
Dendrobium Pierardii is among them. Many of the bulbs are quite as 
large as that species, while many others are intermediate, though, so far 
as known, no natural hybrid occurs between the two, though there is no 
reason why such should not exist, and certainly such a cross would be 
both beautiful and interesting. We offer the plants as received ; our 
man sent them all as D. Devonianum, and they are certainly a fine lot, 
but, as we have said, with many distinct-looking plants among them. 
DENDROBIUM FALCONERI. 
A magnificent species, among the most beautiful in the genus, pro- 
ducing its large flowers the whole length of the stems, each flower 
between four and five inches across. The sepals, petals and lip are 
white, sometimes with a delicate blush, the lip further ornamented with 
a broad orange-colored disc, marked by a large central dark purple spot. 
It is always admired, its distinct elegance of habit, the size and beauty 
of its blossom adding greatly to the ornamentation of our stove houses, 
in which it grows freely, requiring abundance of moisture during the 
autumn and winter. 
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