Tas. 5303. 
DENDROBIUM Lowi. 
Mr. Low's Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OrcH1pE®.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vy. patentia; lateralibus majoribus obs 
liquis, cum basi producta columnze connatis. Petala sepalo supremo sepius 
majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. Labellum cum pede columne arti- 
culatum v. connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, seepius membrana- 
ceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anthera 
bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbe epiphyte, nunc caules- 
centes, nune rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, sepius venosa. Flores 
solitarii, fasciculati v. racemosi, speciosi. Lindl. 
Denprositm (§ Eudendrobia, nigro-hirsuta) Lowii ; caule erecto nigro-hirsuto, 
foliis ovato-oblongis apice obliquis subtus nigro-pubescentibus, racemis 
densis multifloris (floribus aureis), petalis oblongis obtusis undulatis dor- 
sali duplo longioribus, labello trilobo, lobis lateralibus brevibus lineari-lan- 
ceolatis incurvis paullo super basin insertis, intermedii longe unguiculati, 
limbo subrotundo convexo decurvo barbato, mento isifundibuliformi, co- 
lumna semicylindrica 3-dentata. Lind. 
Denprosium Lowii. Lindl. in Gard. Chron. for Nov. 30, 1861. p. 1046 a. 
A splendid and remarkable new species, deservedly dedicated 
to Hugh Low, Esq., of Labuan, who found it on a mountain, 
“on the north-west coast of Borneo, at an elevation of 3000 
feet above the sea-level, growing on trees in exposed situations,” 
whence it was introduced to his father’s nursery at Clapton. 
It flowered in November, 1861. 
Not having the opportunity of examining this in a living 
state myself, I gladly avail myself of the remarks of Dr. Lindley:— 
“A most attractive species, imported by Messrs. Low, of Clap- 
ton, from Borneo, and exhibited by them at a meeting of the 
Floral Committee of the Horticultural Society. Fragments of 
what appears to be the same plant occur among Mr. Motley’s 
Orchids (x. 201), gathered at Banjarmassing. ‘The flowers are 
admirably beautiful, produced in dense racemes as many as seven 
together, and are fully two inches in diameter, of a charming 
MARCH Ist, 1862. 
