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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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D. crassinode, D. Dalhouseanum, D. Devonianum, D. Falconeri, D. fimbri; 
atum, D. Jamesianum, D. Pierardii, D.Wardianum, andD. chrysotis (fig.101) 
which has rich yellow flowers, the lip with two deep crimson blotches on 
the centre and closely fringed like D. fimbriatum. 
All the best of the Dendrobes were contained in the general groups, and 
are noted under them, but in the class specially devoted to these Orchids 
W. E. Brymer, Esq., had several good plants, the best being D. Falconeri on 
a block with a number of large richly tinted flowers; D. Jenkinsi, a dwarf 
tions, and is unquestionably a useful Orchid—namely, E. vitellinum, which, 
with its orange-coloured abundant flowers, is a favourite everywhere. 
Another species, by no means so well known as it merits, is E. bicomutum, 
which produces ivory-white flowers of wax-like substance freely, and lasts 
in beauty for a great time. This plant is also interesting from its habitat— 
namely, upon rocks in the West Indies, especially in Trinidad, where it has 
been collected in positions fully exposed to the sea, which in rough weather 
washes over it. E. cinnabarinum, E. nemorale, and E. Cooperianum are also 
Fig. 102.— Cypripedium Lawrenceanum. 
species on a block, with thirteen flowers ; and D. densiflorum, with five good 
spikes ; Robert Whyte, Esq., Pentland House, Old Kent Road, Lee, showing 
a plant of Dendrobium cruentum, which has white petals and petals with a 
deep red lip. 
EPIDENDRTJMS. 
Interesting in several respects is the great genus Epidendrum, though 
amongst its 400 species there are comparatively few that can rank with the 
most useful Orchids. Linnaeus referred to this genus all the epiphytal 
Orchids known in his time, and the familiar E. cochleatum was one of the 
earliest of the family introduced to English gardens, having been included 
in the Kew collection towards the close of the eighteenth century. Scores 
of species have been sent here since then, but the majority bears flowers of 
dull colours, very small, or produced near the apex of an exceedingly long 
flower stalk. One, however, has deservedly found a place in most collec- 
attractive plants. America is the home of the Epidendrams, but they are 
widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions. 
E. vitellinum was the principal species exhibited, and several good 
specimens of this were noticeable, one of the best being that from W. E. 
Brymer, Esq., which had fourteen spikes of eight or ten flowers each. 
VANDAS, SACCOLABIUMS, AERIDES, AND STANHOPEAS. 
Many beautiful Orchids are comprised in the three first-named genera 
and in the last some very peculiar plants are included that were favourite 
when Orchids first attracted attention. The Vandas, with the two related 
genera named after them, are distinguished from many other Orchids by 
their habit of growth, producing a stem often 10 or 12 feet high and bearing 
its leaves in two opposite rows. The flowers vary considerably m size, 
the best-known species, V. tricolor and V. suavis, having small flowers in 
racemes borne in the axils of the leaves; but in the blue V. cserulea and in 
