

1610 





DENDROBIUM* specidsum. 





Shewy Dendrobium. 





GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje Juss. § Malaxidese Lindl. {Introduction to the 

 natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 



DENDROBIUM. — Supra, vol. l.fol 548. 



D. speciosum ; caulibus erectis apice 2-3-phyllis, foliis ovali-oblongw mte- 

 gerrimis racemo terminali multifloro brevioribus, penantbu foliolis an- 

 gusto-oblongis, labelio infra divisuram carina unica, lobo mtermedio 

 latiore quam longo ecarinato. R. Br. prodr. 332. Lindl. 9™- et *P' 

 Orch. 87. Hooker Bot. mag. 3074. Bauer s illustrations oj Urcma. 

 tab. VI. genera. 



Scarcely any plant is more common than this in collec- 

 tions near London ; so readily is it cultivated, that it rarely 

 happens that a Gardener does not succeed in keeping it 

 healthy, and multiplying it abundantly : tied to a stick oi 

 Planted in earth, preserved in a greenhouse or stimulated 

 jn a stove, in all cases it preserves the deep green ol its 

 leaves and its aspect of robustness.* But it seldom flowers. 

 This is owing to the weakness of the specimens, compared 



with what is 



y: it is 



& h to keep their leaves green and plump, ^ ] s also 



necessary that the plants should grow rapidly, and to ai 

 least twice the size we are accustomed to see them ; tnen 

 and then only will they yield their stately and beautiful 

 racemes of pale-yellow wax-like blossoms. 



The specimen from which the accompanying drawing 

 was taken, was one of five produced upon the same ^cluster 

 ^ stems, in the garden of the Rev. Mr. Huntly, of Kim- 



* See fol. 1239 



