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DENDROBIUM VELUTINUM (Rolfe). 
In describing this plant, Mr. R. A. Rolfe writes : — 
A dwarf species, with stout terete pseudo-bulbs, not exceeding 1 foot high, and 
bearing three or four oblong coriaceous leaves at the summit. The racemes bear 
two or three deep orange flowers, of unusual substance, nearly 2 inches in diameter 
when expanded, and the three-lobed is of the same colour and very velvety, in 
allusion to which it is named. The spur is extremely short, being reduced to a 
mere protuberance, and the sepals are keeled. 
It is very distinct, and there is only one species with which it can well be 
compared, and that is D. trigonopus (Rchb. f.), which is believed not to be in 
cultivation. 
Price 10s. Gd. to 63 s. each. 
GONGORA CHARLESWORTHII (New Species, Rolfe). 
This charming Gongora was introduced by us from Peru, and named in honour 
of our Mr. J. Charlesworth. In habit it is somewhat like Gongora truncata. The 
leaves are broadly lanceolate, plicate, about 10 inches long, and 2 to 2| inches 
broad. Scape arching, from 20 to 40 inches long, and bears from forty to eighty 
flowers. Sepals and petals are rosy pink, barred and spotted with bright purplish 
red of a peculiar shade; lip and column of a brownish purple shade. 
Price 31s. 6 d. and 42s. each. 
L/ELIA JONGHEANA. 
An extremely rare and handsome species, with small oblong pseudo-bulbs ; the 
scape is two-flowered; flowers 4| — 5 inches in diameter, spreading, nearly flat, of 
a soft rose-purple colour. Figured in the Botanical Magazine, tab. 6038. 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1872, p. 425, fig. 128. 
Price on application. 
L/ELIA PURPURATA ROSEA. 
A most elegant form, sepals and petals of a beautifu} rosy pink hue, very large 
and not reflexing, the large labellum of the same colour, with dark veins radiating 
from the centre. 
Price 52s. Gd. each. 
