. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . d on the young stems, and fall away beforethe flowers are developed. The flowers are of moderate size,and freely produced, the sepals and petals white tipped withmagenta, the lip orange at the base, and slightly tipped withmagenta. It is a most desirable plant, flowering during thesummer months.—Burmah. Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 6319; Xenia Orck., ii. t. 193, L. cupreuin.—See Dendrobium moschatum cupeeum. D. DAlbertisii, —A very pretty and distinct speciesintroduced by us from NewG
. The orchid-grower's manual : containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants . d on the young stems, and fall away beforethe flowers are developed. The flowers are of moderate size,and freely produced, the sepals and petals white tipped withmagenta, the lip orange at the base, and slightly tipped withmagenta. It is a most desirable plant, flowering during thesummer months.—Burmah. Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 6319; Xenia Orck., ii. t. 193, L. cupreuin.—See Dendrobium moschatum cupeeum. D. DAlbertisii, —A very pretty and distinct speciesintroduced by us from NewGuinea. It is rather dwarf inhabit, and has the peculiarityof producing square taperingstems. The flowers are pro-duced in erect racemes, andare distinctly spurred ; thesepals are pure white, and thelip striped with magenta-purple,forming a pleasing contrast tothe long narrow erect twistedemerald green petals, whichhave been compared to thehorns of an antelope. It is dendrobium dalbertisii. said to have an odour like that of D. amcenum.—New —Gard. Ckron., , x. 217, fig. 41 (flower).. 278 oechid-gkowers manual. D. DaHLOUSieanuin, WalUch.—This is a beautiful large-flowered evergreen species, with stoutish terete subfusiformstems from four to eight feet high, elegantly marked withreddish crimson ; it blooms from the old growths in April andMay, producing drooping lateral racemes of from five to sevenflowers. These flowers are large, fully three inches across,with the parts broad and strikingly effective ; the ovate sepalsand much larger petals are of a pale lemon colour edged withrose ; the lip is oblong, constricted in the middle, glandu-larly villous and incurved in front, where it is whitish, thebase pale yellowish, marked on each side with a large oblongpurple-crimson blotch, the inner edge of which passes intocoloured whisker-like fringes; it lasts four or five days inbeauty. This will grow either in a pot or basket, with Dalhousieanum has
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