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DENDROBIUM Dalhousieanum. 
Lady Dalhousie's Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE=. $ MALAXEA-DENDROBIDA. (ORCHIDS, 
Vegetable Kingdom, p. 181. ined.) 
DENDROBIUM, Swartz. 
$ STACHYOBIUM. Caules teretes. Folia plana. Flores racemosi. 
D. Dalhousicanum (Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, vol. 11. t. 145) ; caulibus 
teretibus subfusiformibus striatis, foliis ovato-lanceolatis obtusis, race- 
mis horizontalibus 5-7-floris, bracteis squameeformibus, sepalis ovatis, 
petalis conformibus multó majoribus, labello indiviso oblongo medio 
constricto basi foveato parte superiore obtuso glanduloso villoso lateri- 
bus erosis glabris lamellis 3 pro medium brevibus laciniisque utrin- 
que uniseriatis inflexis, cornu brevi obtuso. 
The part of India where this beautiful species has been 
obtained is unknown. It was found in the Botanical Garden, 
Caleutta, by Mr. Gibson, who sent it to Chatsworth, with 
the name which had been given by Dr. Wallich, in compli- 
ment to the Countess of Dalhousie, from whom he had 
received it. 
It is not among the wild specimens in our herbarium, 
unless it should lurk among some of Mr. Griffith’s unex- 
amined collections. 
None of the species exceed it in beauty, for, with the 
large flowers and noble aspect of the ** musk” Dendrobium, 
it is enriched by two large blood red spots on each side of the 
lip which melt into a row of fringes turned towards the 
middle, and looking like a pair of young whiskers fresh from 
the curling irons of the hairdresser. 
It is well figured in Mr. Paxton's Magazine, with a wood- 
cut shewing its manner of growth; and it is there stated to 
have produced strong stems, upwards of 3 feet in length, 
without shewing any inclination to flower. The figure was 
