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DENDROBIUM* chrysanthum. 
Golden- flowered Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncnipEx. Tribus Malaxidee. * Dendrobiese Lindl. 
DENDROBIUM. — Supra, vol, 7: fal, 548. 
$ Caules undique foliosi, cylindracei, sepè penduli. Flores fasciculati 
v. solitarii. E T 4 Pr "uv per mom 
D. chrysanthum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis contortis ovato-Janceolatis 
acuminatis, floribus ternatis inter folia nascentibus, sepalis carnosis 
oblongis obtusis: venis extüs tuberculatis, petalis obovatis retusis car- 
nosis sepalo supremo latioribus, labello cucullato denticulato retuso 
obsoletè trilobo. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. ined. 
D. chrysanthum. Wallich cat. no. 2012. 
Flores intense lutei, carnosi, extús tuberculis crebris minuti; petala 
tamen minis tuberculata. Labellum intús maculá atrosanguined. Ibid. 
This beautiful species is a native of Nipal, whence it 
was introduced into the Botanic Garden, Calcutta, by 
Dr. Wallich, and by that zealous Botanist brought to 
England in the year 1828. The plant from which the 
accompanying figure was taken blossomed in a stove in the 
Horticultural Society's Garden, in February 1829: it had 
been presented to that establishment by the Honourable 
Court of Directors of the East India Company. 
It is difficult to conceive a plant at once more graceful 
and beautiful than this; its pendulous stems, which hang 
from the rugged, deep brown, moss-clad trunks of trees, 
are clothed with lucid leaves of the most lively green, and 
its flowers are of the richest and deepest yellow. At first 
sight the species might be mistaken for D. fimbriatum, 
but it will be found very different upon comparison. 
* See fòl. 1239. 
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