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Plate XIX. 



DENDUOBIUM FIMBIUA'ITM OCULATUM 



A noble epiphyte <>f grail beauty, with erect jointed stems, which grow from three to four feel high, and arc 

 clothed with alternate distichous lanceolate leaver four to «x inches long, The Bowers are produced in lon^ 

 pendulous racemes from the upper joints of the ripened and then leafless items. The sepals are oblong, entire 

 spreading, and of ft rich golden yellow, Tlio petals are broader ihan the sepal*, edged with minute teeth, and 

 also of a golden yellow: and the lip Ulnrgc, cucullatc, undivided, spreading at the mouth, of* somewhat pale 

 yellow, with a large deep Wood-red »|*ot near the baw\ the wholoofit* surface and of the margin being villow- 



fimbriate. 

 l)i;si>noniuM ruiBRUTtni WT- oculatuh, Ilmltr, Botanical JAtyttftw, t-4160; Lindhg+in Paxtoti$ Ffotctr Gard™. 



iii t. 84; Sdckcnhach fil % in Watpm' Annates Itotmlm Sgstmfftic&j vi. 293. 

 Dendrohum Paxtosi, PoxioU) Sfeg&dnt of Itotrnty, vi. 109, with plate; not of Lmdlej : Pfanofom, wi Vm Houttfo 



Ffore ctet Strrtx, vii. t. 726* 



This beautiful species is most nearly related to Dendrohlmn etm*t*m t nm\ Detidrolhm Gib&om % both 

 of which differ in not having fringed petals, the former also in the long membranaceous bracts homo tm its 

 inflorescence, and the latter in producing smaller and more fleshy flowers which arc not so much expanded. 

 XffO varieties are known ; the one first figured in the - Exotic Flora ' by Sir William Hooker, and which has 

 Ihc flowers whole coloured or unspotted; the other, represented in our Plate, which has larger blossom*, and 

 u rich deep rcddish-biown spot towards the base of the lip. Tliis latter is not un&equently grown in gardens 

 under the erroneous name of Demlrotiam /VuAW, which error, singularly enough, seems to have originated 

 with Mr. Paxton himself, in Ins ' Magazine of Botany, 1 and to have altogether puzzled Dr. Wanclion when 

 describing the plate transferred from that work to the 'How dtt Sen*.' In truth, Ikndrobium Patfoni 

 belongs to a different group, and bean a two-llowcml inflorescence, as originally described by Dr. Lindley, 



This beautiful plant is a native of India, and was introduced to the Chatsworth collection through Mr. 

 Gibson, by whom so many fine Dcndrobcs were for the first time sent to Euro]*. Dr. Lindley refers to 

 it as a native of Meigui. It has now become somewhat plentiful in ibis country, but is none the less 

 worthy of cultivation on that account Indeed, few Orchidaceous plants contribute more towards the em- 

 bellishment of our plant stoves than the various species of Dcttdrobwm, and in this respect the line variety 

 represented in our present Plate, drawn from a specimen which bloomed in our own collection, certainly 



stands in the very first rank. 



Bendrobium fmbrialum ocuhtum is a plant of erect growth, attaining a height of from three to four 

 feet- The leaves are arranged upon the stems in a distichous manner; and from near the apex of the two- 

 year-old growths, the long drooping racemes or spikes of flowers an; produced. The same sterna or growths 

 continue lo produce flowcr-apikce, at various times, for several years in succession. The flowers in this 

 variety are of a rich deep orange colour, the petals being minutely toothed at the edge, whilst the broad 

 expanded lip. which is of a paler yellow, is beautifully fringed, and marked near the base with a semicircular 

 blotch of deep velvety bluckish-purplc. 



This fine plant produces its very attractive flowers at various seasons, but principally during the months 

 of Mnv and June, on which account it forms a beautiful object for public exhibitions. By many Orchid 

 growers il is pronounced difficult to bloom, and as a consequence it is discarded for exhibition purp< 



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