. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. OECHIDS. 377 B. Cambridgeaniun.—This handsome species suc- ceeds best when grown upon a block of wood or in a basket suspended from the roof, and thrives under somewhat cooler treatment than the majority of the Dendrobiums. The pseudo-bulbs are clustered, pen- dulous, thickened at the joints, and about a foot long; the leaves are sheathing, ovate-acuminate, and dark green; the flowers are produced on the young growths only. Peduncle short, and usually two- flowered : these are two to three inches in diameter; sepals-and petals about equal, and of a cle
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. OECHIDS. 377 B. Cambridgeaniun.—This handsome species suc- ceeds best when grown upon a block of wood or in a basket suspended from the roof, and thrives under somewhat cooler treatment than the majority of the Dendrobiums. The pseudo-bulbs are clustered, pen- dulous, thickened at the joints, and about a foot long; the leaves are sheathing, ovate-acuminate, and dark green; the flowers are produced on the young growths only. Peduncle short, and usually two- flowered : these are two to three inches in diameter; sepals-and petals about equal, and of a clear orange- in pairs, each two to three inches in diameter ; sepals and petals milk-white, tipped with bright rose, the petals being much the larger ; lip entire, velvety- white, tipped with deep rose, and stained with bright orange-yellow on the disc. The winter and spring months. Found in Moulmein, on the AiTakan Mountains, at an elevation of 2,500 feet. B. cnjstaUinum. — A deciduous species of great beauty, producing slender terete stem-like pseudo- bulbs, which are upwards of a foot long. The leaves are only found on the young growths, and the. Dendrobium Wardianum. colour ; lip large, deep orange with a large velvety- black blotch at the base. Spring months. Northern India. D. chrysotoxum.—^^An evergreen erect plant, with clavate or spindle-shaped pseudo-bulbs upwards of a foot high, bearing near the summit three or four dark green oblong-acute coriaceous leaves. Peduncle arising from the side of the pseudo-bulb just under the leaves, bearing a pendulous, rather lax raceme of large rich deep yellow flowers. Sepals and petals— the latter much the larger—all rich golden-yellow; lip deep orange on the disc, the edges beautifully fringed. "Winter and spring months. Moulmein. D. crassinode.—This most beautiful and distinct species produces pseudo-bulbs one to two feet long, which are deciduous. As its name implies, the joints or nodes are very much swollen, whic
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