. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. en inches long, terminal, erect racemes, pro-duced from the matured pseudo-bulb, the longest racemebeing one and a half feet long and bearing ten flowers andbuds. The flowers measure two and a half inches across,and they are described as being lilac in color, with a fewsmall dark calli on the disk of the labellum, and two whiteglands at the base of the column. There is a family like-ness between D. Phalasnopsis and D. bigibbum, D. super-biens and D. Goldiei, but, as Fitzgerald points out, the first-named is easily dist
. Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry. en inches long, terminal, erect racemes, pro-duced from the matured pseudo-bulb, the longest racemebeing one and a half feet long and bearing ten flowers andbuds. The flowers measure two and a half inches across,and they are described as being lilac in color, with a fewsmall dark calli on the disk of the labellum, and two whiteglands at the base of the column. There is a family like-ness between D. Phalasnopsis and D. bigibbum, D. super-biens and D. Goldiei, but, as Fitzgerald points out, the first-named is easily distinguished from these three in the formof its flowers and the shape of the labellum. The nameD. Phalcenopsis was given by Fitzgerald from the likenessof its flowers to moths as well as to those of the genus Phalae- November 4, 1891.] Garden and Forest. 521 nopsis. The plant in Captain Broomfields collection flow-ered the following April, and produced 300 blooms. In 1882 Mr. Forbes visited some of the islands north ofQueensland on behalf of the Geographical Society of Lon-. Fig. 80.—Nothochtaena rigida, n. sp.—See page 519. don. He brought back with him several living plants, andamong them was a plant of this Dendrobium which he ob-tained in Timorlant. This plant came to Kew, where itflowered in September, 1884, and a figure of it was pub- lished in the Botanical Magazine, t. 6817. There is a de-cided difference between the plant flowered at Kew andthat figured and described by Fitzgerald, the scape of thelatter being erect, while that borne by the Kew plant waspendent : the lip of the latter was maroon-crim-son, whereas Fitzgerald figures and describeshis plant with uniformly lilac-purple , Sir Joseph Hooker considered anddescribed them as identical. Several plants ofD. Phalcenopsis had been distributed from Kew,and these are now known as the Kew varietyto distinguish them from an exceedingly beau-tiful form of the same species. This was namedD. Phalcenopsis,
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