Tab. 4160 



DENDROBIUM fimbriatum ; var. oculatum. 



Fringe-lipped Dendrobium ; var. with sanguineous eye. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. — Gynandria Monogynia. 

 DENDROBIUM. (Vide supra Tab. 4013J 



Dendrobium fimbrialum; caulibus erectis fertilibus plerumque aphyllis, 

 foliis lanceolatis striatis, racemis plurifloris, sepalis oblongis patentissi- 

 mis integerrimis, petalis majoribus undulatis ciliato-denticulatis, labello 

 indiviso cucullato firabriis laceratis. 



Dendrobium fimbriatum. Hook. Ex. Ft t. 71. Wall. Cat. n. 2011. 

 Lindl. Gen. el Sp. Orchid, p. 83. 



Var. oculalum; labello fauce macula lata atro-sanguinea. (Tab. nostr. 

 4160.) 



A native of Nepal, whence plants have from time to time 

 been sent to our stoves by Dr. Wallich. It first blossomed in 

 the Liverpool Botanic Garden, as stated in the " Exotic 

 Flora :" and the flowers were of an uniform golden yellow. 

 Our present plant, in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, has 

 a dark blood-coloured eye-like spot in the centre of the label- 

 lum, which adds greatly to the beauty of this otherwise very 

 charming plant. This state of it, Dr. Lindley considers thai 

 of the native specimens. It flowered with us in September, 

 1843. 



Descr. Stems a foot or a foot and a half long, jointed 

 and furrowed. Leaves, several confined to the sterile branches, 

 four or five inches long, alternate, striated, sheathing at the 

 base. Racemes from the sterile branches, drooping, bearing 

 five to seven large and exceedingly handsome flowers, of a 

 rich golden-yellow colour. Sepals and petals very patent: 

 the former oblong, more or less waved, entire ; the latter 

 larger and broader, waved, and ciliato-dentate at the margin. 

 Lip large, cucullate, spreading at the mouth, entire, or very 

 indistinctly three-lobcd, and fimbriated, the fimbria- them- 

 selves elegantly divided, the faux having a deep blood-red spot 



