General Catalogue.] 
ORCHIDS. 
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DENDROBIUM BENSONIyE (Hooker). 
Moulmein. 
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This exceedingly pretty variety is a very welcome addition to the I). Pierardii class. 
It was discovered by that persevering collector, Colonel Benson, and was, at his own 
suggestion, named after his wife. It is most nearly congeneric with D. nodatum, 
from which, however, it differs in its flowers being much larger and its petals broader 
than in that variety. The flowers are about 2 inches in diameter, the sepals and 
petals pure white, round and broad, the lip large and circular, adorned with a deep 
golden coloured disc, and two purple spots near the base. 
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DENDROBIUM FALCONERI (Hooker). 
Bhotan and Assam. 
This most beautiful species was discovered in the high mountain ranges of Assam 
and Bhotan, at an elevation of 4,000 feet, therefore may be classed as a “ Cool House ” 
Orchid. And, as it is of easy culture, should, from its extraordinary beauty, be in 
every collection. 
The stems or pseudo-bulbs are long, slender, and branching. The flowers large, and 
produced in quantities at the joints of the long leafless stems. Sepals large, spreading, 
and somewhat undulating, of a pale rose colour, tipped with purple. Petals broad, 
white, tipped with purple. Lip large and cucullate, of a rich orange yellow, with a 
deep reddish purple blotch at the base, and tipped with purple. 
This decidedly ranks among the most beautiful of all the Dendrobes. 
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DENDROBIUM LASIOGLOSSUM (Reicbb. fils). 
Bukmah. 
Professor Reichenbach thus describes this novelty in Gardeners’ Chronicle, June 27th, 
1868 :— 
“ This is a gay and pretty new Dendrobe, very much like Dendrobium Euckerii, 
Lindl. ... I have a few inches of a slender stem with shining, brownish, closely 
adhering sheaths. There are two or three flowers coming from one common, very 
short, peduncle ; they are of a thick texture, milk white, with a brownish apex to the 
mentum, a yellowish tuft of hairs in the middle of the lip, and on the front of the 
column.” This fine new species was discovered by Colonel Benson in Rangoon. 
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MASDEVALLI A VEITCHIANA (Reiclib. fils). 
Cordilleras of Peru. 
This most splendid species was discovered among the Cordilleras of Peru at a high 
elevation, and may, therefore, be considered an addition, of the first class, to that 
useful section “ Cool House ” Orchids. 
Dr. Hooker, in describing it in the Botanical Magazine for November, 1868, Tab. 
5,739, says : — “In point of colour it is not only one of the most beautiful, but most 
singular, of Orchids ; for the vivid hue of the flower is due to the whole inner surface 
of the sepals being studded with minute papillae of a brilliant cadmium yellow coloui ; 
these are largest and most crowded when the colour is deepest. 
An acquisition to every collection. 
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