Tab. 5459. 



DENDROBIUM eburneum. 



Ivory -flowered Dendrobium. 



Nat. Ord. Orchideje. — Gtnandria Monandria. 

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



Dendrobium eburneum; caulibus erectis brevibus robustis foliosis villis deciduis 

 sparse vestitis, foliis coriaceis lanceolatis oblique obtusis, racemis lateralibus 

 vel terminalibus 2-5-floris foliis brevioribus, sepalis petalisque subasqualibus 

 lanceolatis acutis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus brevibus rotundatis, inter- 

 medio triplo longiore lanceolato apiculato margine crenulato, mento hori- 

 zoutali sepalis vix sequali. /. B. 



Dendrobium eburneum. Reichenbach fil. mss. 



This line Dendrobium was found in Moulmeine by Mr. Parish, 

 associated with D. formomm and other species, of which figures 

 have already appeared in this work. Messrs. Hugh Low and 

 Co. received living plants of it about two years ago ; and one of 

 these having been seen in flower by Professor Reichenbach, he 

 at once distinguished it under the characteristic name of B. ebur- 

 neum, although, so far as we are aware, he has not yet published 

 any technical description of it. The flowers have exactly the 

 appearance of polished ivory, which .is relieved by lines of dark 

 Roman red, which occupy the lower portion of the disk of the 

 lip and the base of the column. It seems to flower at irregular 

 periods; and although evidently of easy culture, has not yet 

 bloomed so profusely as the imported stems, many of which, 

 bearing the remains of half-a-dozen racemes, lead us to expect 

 it eventually will do. 



Our figure was derived from a specimen that flowered in Mr. 

 Low's collection in the month of April last. (/. Bateman.) 



Fig. 1. Flower, from which the sepals and petals are removed. 2. Front 

 view of the column and spur. 3. Pollen-masses : — maginfied. 

 august 1st, 1864. 



