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86. DENDROBIUM formosum 



f Wallich pi. as. rar. 1 . t. 39. 



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This noble plant, whose large ivory-white flowers are un- 

 rivalled for beauty, in even the rich Flora of India, was sent 

 from Chatsworth on the 12th of May : having been imported 

 for the Duke of Devonshire, by Mr. Gibson, His Grace's col- 

 lector in the East Indies. The flowers grow at the end of a 

 leafy stem, and are between three and four inches in expan- 

 sion, with every part of the purest and most transparent 

 white, except one delicate lozenge-shaped, buff^-coloured 

 blotch in the centre of the lip. Neither the form nor the 

 colour of this is correctly given in Dr. Wallich's work above 

 quoted. It has been sometimes said that the Flora ot bouth 

 America is richer in beautiful Orchidaceous plants than 

 that of India, and an appeal has been made to the Cattleyas, 

 Epidendra. Oncidiums, and MaxiUarias of the former coun- 

 try. But I know of no South American species so admirably 

 G* formed and coloured as India can produce m the case ot 



f Dendrobia of various kinds, Saccolabiums. and species of the 



genera Phaius, Vanda, Coelogyne, and Grammatophyllum. 

 Of these Dendrobium formosum must stand among the 

 , foremost in point of beauty. 



87. EPIDENDRUM ionosmum. 



, _ J , ,, . j:«u-;11;s scauo apice sirapllci racemose brevlori- 



bus. sepalis petalisque eomcei^^^^^^^ columnam amplexan- 



labelli trilob. hben f '^Jl^ ^^^f ^ ,,,lJ Intermedlo subrotundo 



propiore, columna antic^ bicorni. 



The Western world wants no violets where this charming 

 plant is found, for it BU the air with a fragrance as delicate 

 r J J ,. • „. tJiat of our favourite wild-flower. The 



and delicious as that 01 our ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^.^ ^,^^3_ ^ 



dunTddS.' ~ S the Hp delLtely streaked with deep 



mac Messl Loddiges imported it from Essequibo. 



G. July 1838 



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