Tab. 5649. 

 DENDROBIUM macrophylltdi ; var. Feitchianum. 

 Large-leaved Dendrobe ; VeitcKs var. 



Nat. Ord. Oechidb^. — GtYkandbia Monandbia. 

 Oen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 4755.) 



Dendbobidm macrophyllum ; caulibus basi teretibus superne clavatis pro- 

 funde sulcatis 2-3-phyllis, foliis sessilibus oblongis apice oblique 

 2-fidis v. emarginatis, racemo terminali erecto elongato apice nutante 

 multifloro, bracteis membranaceis acutiusculis, pedicellis sepalisque 

 ovato-oblongis extus birsutis, petalis spathulatis acutis flavidis, labello 

 maguo 3-lobo, lobis lateralibus adscendentibus reniformibus purpureo- 

 flabellatim striolatis, interraedio transverse dilatato convexo flabella- 

 tim maculato obscure 3-dentato. 



Denbbobitjm macropbyllum. A. Hick. Serf. Astrolab.p. 22. t. 6. 



Var. VeitcManum ; foliis minoribus. D. Veitchianum. Lindl. Bot. Req. 

 1847, sub. t. 25. 



The true D. macrophyllum of A. Kichard, a native of New 

 Guinea, is one of the finest of Orchids, having leaves up- 

 wards of a foot long and a spike twice as long : the plant here 

 introduced differs only in the smaller leaf from Richard's 

 figure and description, and is clearly a variety of that species. 

 It was named after its introducers, Messrs. Veitch, by Dr. 

 Lindley, who seems to have overlooked Richard's plant, or 

 he would surely otherwise have alluded to it as a close ally 

 at any rate. Our specimen of var. VeitcManum was flowered 

 by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, in February of the present 

 year, and I am indebted to my friend Dr. Reichenbach for 

 its identification, as also for the information that I), ferox, of 

 Hasskarl, is another of its many varieties, which inhabit 

 the Javan and Sumatran hills. 



The var. VeitcManum is a native of Java, whence it was 

 sent to England by the late Mr. Thomas Lobb, one of the 

 most indefatigable and successful of Messrs. Veitch's collec- 

 tors. It inhabits the hottest jungles of the hottest climate in 

 JUjfE 1st, 1867. 



