Tab. 5482. 

 DENDROBIUM Japonic™. 



Japanese Bendrobium. 



Nat. Ord. Okchide^e. — Gtnandria Monandbia. 

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



Dendrobium Japonicum ; caulibus gracilibus elongatis, foliis altemis membra- 

 naceia linearibus obtusiusculis, floribus kteralibus solitariis v. binis albis, 

 bracteolis tumidis basin ovarii cingcntibus, sepali dorsali lineari-oblongo, 

 lateralibus oblongis acutis, petalis ovato- v. oblongo-lanceolatis acutis re- 

 curvis, labelli disco intus pubescente, limbo ovato-lanceolato acuminato 

 recurvo glaberrimo. 



Dendrobium Japonicum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 89. Reichenb. fil. in 

 Annul. Bot. Sy-st. v. 6. p. 294. 



Onychium Japonicum. Blume, Bijd. 328. 



DENDROBIUM castum. Batem. ms. 



Although anything but a showy species of Bendrobium, the 

 delicious fragrance of B. Japonicum at once recommends it for 

 cultivation. It is probably common in Japan, having been sent to 

 the Royal Gardens from Nagasaki by Sir Rutherford Alcock and 

 by Mr. Hoey, and from the island of Tsu-sima, off the Corean 

 coast, by Mr. Charles Wilford, collector for the Royal Gardens. 



Our excellent friend Mr. Bateman, who is of opinion, from 

 some slight discrepancies between Blume's brief character of his 

 Onychium (I)endiobium, Sw.) Japonicum and our plant, that the 

 Two may not be identical, has suggested the appropriate name 

 of B. castrum for it :• — but as it is the only species of the genus 

 we have ever received from Japan, and this from widely different 

 localities, and from three different correspondents ; it may, I 

 think, be reasonably inferred that it is the Japonicum of Blume. 

 Should it prove otherwise, the specific name of castum must be 

 adopted. 



Descb. Stems tufted, six to twelve inches long, slender, pen- 



DECEMBER 1st, 1864. 



