Tas. 5037. 
DENDROBIUM puLcHELLUM. 
Showy Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDE®.—GyNnaNDrRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) 
DenpRoBIUM pulchellum; caulibus teretibus striatis pendulis, foliis oblongo- 
lanceolatis subplicatis, pedunculis unifloris (racemis lateralibus strictis mul- 
tifloris, Roxb.), bracteis brevibus ovatis obtusis, sepalis patentibus oblongis 
apiculatis, petalis patentibus sepalis triplo majoribus ovalibus obtusis stri- 
atis, labello basi obtuso breviter calearato unguiculato cochleariformi striato 
villoso pulcherrime fimbriato-ciliato, ungue lobis 2-involutis. 
Denprosrum pulchellum. Roxb. Fl. Indica, v. 3. p. 4862 Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. 
Orchid. p. 82? Hensl. in Maund’s Botanist, v. 1. t. 5. Loddiges, Bot. 
Cab. t. 1935. 
That this is the Dendrobium pulchellum of our gardens, and of — 
Maund and Loddiges, there can be no manner of doubt, but I 
am by no means clear about it being the D. pule 
burgh and Lindley. Dr. Lindley first published the plant, st 
would appear, from the ‘ Icones Pictee’ and MSS. of Dr. Rox- — 
burgh in the possession of the Honourable the India Company, 
but he describes the “ racemes lateral, strict, and many-flowered.- 
Roxburgh, in the last volume of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ does the same, 
as we understand his words: “ Raceme lateral,” in the specific 
character ; and in the description, “ Racemes lateral, from the 
old leafless stems or branches, diverging, flexuose, with one 
large pale pink flower at each of the six or eight curvatures. 
Now this is totally at variance with the inflorescence of our 
plant, and with the figures in Maund and in Loddiges : potwith- 
standing which the specific character and description, 1n Maund, 
make the flowers to be in “ many-flowered racemes.» Loddiges, 
more prudently, gives neither character nor description. Lind- 
ley again, probably deriving his information from Roxburgh s 
drawing, says: “ Sepala alba ; petala rosea ; labellum. lutescens, 
MARCH Ist, 1858. ~ 
hellum of Rox- 
