Tab. 5446. 

 DENDROBIUM infundibulum. 



F"ii n rl-li /,])<■( I /), >,t (h ■(, fj in ,D . 



>>dt. Ord. Orchidace.k. — Gynandkia Monandkia. 

 Gen. Char. (Vute supra. Tab. 5303.) 



DufOlOBIVll iiifuwWmhtm ; foliis lanceolatis nngnstis acutis, sepalis linrnri- 

 oblon«is, petalis oblon^i* obtasifl triplo latinribus, mento infundibulari 

 pedicello sequali. labello lobis lateralibus rotundatis integris, intern 

 KrralatO emargiuato. Lindl. 



DntDKOBItm infundibulum. Lindl. in Lhm. Soc. Trans. Batem.in Gard. { 

 L86S, //. L194. 



Not having seen this noble plant in a recent state, I rely 

 wholly on Mr. Bateinan's determination of the species, and on 

 his remarks, as follows : — " The other day, while looking through 

 the Nursery of Messrs. Low and Son, at Clapton, I was shown 

 living plants and dried specimens of a Dendrobimm, which had 

 been recently imported by the firm from Moulmein, and to which 

 they had given provisionally the name of D. Monlmeinense, 

 under which designation it is already to be found in several col- 

 lections. I thought the plant was undescribed, but on looking 

 over Professor Lindley's ' Contributions to the Orchidology of 

 India,' I at once recognized in that able botanist's description of 

 D. infundibulum (transcribed above) the very plant that Messrs. 

 Low had distributed under the name of J). MotUmeinense, and 

 which they have the honour of being the first to import alive. 

 It is a species of surpassing beauty, and promises to more than 

 rival its nearest relative, D.formosum. A dried flower that is 

 now before me measures, when laid flat, four inches across ; 

 and that such glorious blossoms are produced in the greatest 

 profusion is evidenced by the withered flower-stalks that crowd 

 the tops of the imported stems." 



"The Rev. Mr. Parish, from whom Messrs. Low received 

 the plant, found it flowering in February, upon the mountains 

 of Moulmein, where it seems also to have been discovered in a 



may 1st, 1864. 



