Tab. 5451. 



DENDROBIUM Farmeri, var. aureo-jlava. 

 Mr. Farmer s Dendrobium ; golden-yellow var. 



Nat. Ord. Orchidej:. — Gynandria Monogyxia. 

 Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Tab. 5303.) 



Dendrobium Farmeri; caulibus ekmgatis clavatis articulatis profunde quadri- 

 sulcatis et obtuse 4-angulatis apice foliosis, foliis 2-4 ovatis coriaceis stria- 

 tes, racemis Iateralibus multifloris pendulis, bracteis parvis ovatis concavis, 

 sepalis (albis roseo tinctis) late ovatis obtusis, petalis conformibus (ejus- 

 demque coloris) majoribus, labello (albo disco luteo) rhomboideo obtusis- 

 simo unguiculato supra pubescente margine subintegerrimo. 



Dendrobium Farmeri. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. p. 15, cum Ic. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

 4659. 



Var. /5. aureo-flava ; sepalisque intense flavis, labello aureo. (Tab. Nostr. 5451.) 



During the course of last year (1863), accompanied by speci- 

 mens of the plant alluded to for the Royal Gardens, and for 

 Mr. Lowe, of Clapton, the following note was received from the 

 Rev. S. P. Parish, of Moulmeine : — " What if I were to say that 

 Dendrobium Farmeri (see our Tab. 4659) and D. chrysotoxum 

 (our Tab. 5053) were one and the same? I know both of them 

 extremely well, having had them growing for three years. There 

 is no mistaking the two without the flowers. Two days ago, 

 on going down into my garden, I was astonished, and could 

 hardly believe my eyes, at seeing a panicle of the golden flowers 

 of D. chrysotoxum proceeding from the bulbs of D. Farmeri ! — 

 the only difference being that the labellum is here rather pointed, 

 and not so round as in D. chrysotoxum." Dr. Lindley, too, has 

 a remark, or rather offers a conjecture, somewhat to the same 

 effect, when he says, in his ' Contributions to the Orchidology 

 of India,'* "D. Farmeri is scarcely distinct from D. chrysotoxum, 



* 'Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London/ vol. 3. p. 7. 

 JUNE 1st, 1864. 



