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* DENDRÓBIUM cüpreum. 
Copper-coloured Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcupeæ $. Mataxipex, Lindl. (Introduction to the 
Natural System of Botany, p. 262.) 
DENDROBIUM.—Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. 
D. cupreum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis obtusis emarginatis, 
racemis lateralibus laxis multifloris, bracteis ovato-linearibus canaliculatis 
obtusis, sepalis ovatis obtusiusculis petalis oblongis explanatis obtusis mino- 
ribus, labello unguiculato cochleariformi obtusissimo extus villoso intus nudo. 
D. cupreum. Herb. MSS. 
A native of the East Indies, whence it was sent by Dr. 
Wallich to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, about the year 
1825. It flowered at Spofforth for the first time at 
Midsummer 1834, when the drawing was made by Mr. 
Herbert, which we have now the opportunity of publishing. 
It has been suspected that there are two Dendrobia in 
the East Indies, which agree with each other in a sort of 
and a remarkably 
one of these, called 
There is, moreover, 
Catalogue, the specimens that w 
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