Tab. 5444. 

 DENDROBIUM barbatulum. 



Bearded-lipped Dendrobimn. 



Nat. Orel. Orchipea:. — Gynandria Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tar. 5003.) 



Df.ndrobidm barbatulum; caulibus erectis cylindricis vaginalis, foliis remote 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, racemis terminalibus (lateraHbusque.Zi/Mft.) strictis inul- 

 tifloris, periauthium explanatutn album, sepalis lanceolatis, petalis latissime 

 obovatis, labello trilobo, basi bavbatulo, lobis lateralibus parvis oblongis in- 

 curvis purpureo-roseis, intermedio latissime obcordato apiculato integerrimo 

 petalorum magnitudine, calcare obtuso breviusculo. 



Dendrobium barbatulum. Lindl. in Wall. Cat. n. 2013. Gen. et Sp. Orchid 

 p. 84. Paxton, Fl. Gard. v. 3. p. 113. (woodcut). Batem. in Gard. 

 Chron. 1864, p. 269. 



Dendrobium Fytchianum. Batem. in Gard. Chron. 1864,;?. 100. 



This very lovely plant has recently been introduced to this 

 country by Mr. Parish, from Moulmein, through Messrs. Low, 

 of the Clapton Nursery, from whom the specimen here figured 

 has been received in January of the present year (1864). It 

 appears to have flowered previously in the collection of Aspinal 

 Turner, Esq., at Pendlebury House ; and believing it to be new, 

 Mr. Bateman named and described it as D. Fytchianum, m com- 

 pliment to Colonel Fytch, the companion of Mr. Parish at the 

 time it was found. But afterwards, notwithstanding some dis- 

 crepancies, he satisfied himself of its being specifically the same, 

 and corrected the error in a succeeding number of the same work. 

 Mr. Bateman remarks, "The flowers are throughout of the most 

 dazzling whiteness, except that the small lateral lobes are tinged 

 with crimson. They are scentless, and borne in graceful ra- 

 cemes a span long, proceeding from the extremity of the upright 

 stems, the latter being about a foot long, and of the thickness ot 



MAY 1st, 1864. 



