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centre of the lip of a rich brownish purple. The colour of the whole, indeed, seems 
not much unlike that of Dendrobium nobile. 
For cultivating the species, nothing is necessary but a suitable rough log of 
wood to support it ; and it can be kept in a warm moist house during spring and 
summer, but may be taken to a colder one in winter. At no time, however, does 
it require a high temperature. The blossoms appear to unfold in December or 
January ; at least, it bloomed at that period in the nursery of Mr. Knight, King^s 
Road, Chelsea, where our drawing was prepared. 
According to Dr. Lindley, L. rubescens is its nearest ally, from which " it 
differs in its large wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, larger and more corymbose flowers, and 
in the different form of the lab^lum." 
