we 
Tas. 5130. 
DENDROBIUM  axpo-sanGuiNeuM. 
Wihite-and-sanguine Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. Orncurpex.—GyYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.) 
Denprosrum (§ Stachyobium) albo-sanguineum ; caulibus crassis erectis foliosis, 
racemo terminali 4—5-floro, bracteis squameeformibus, sepalis oblongo- 
lanceolatis lateralibus in mentum breve obtusum productis, petalis ovalibus — 
obtusis pluries latioribus, labello obovato subrotundo plano retuso apiculato 
integerrimo. Lindl. 
Denprosium albo-sanguineum. Lindl. in Paxton’s Flower Garden, v. 2. t. 5. 
Paxton’s representation of this rare Dendrobium, exhibits the 
flowers twice the size of ours, and the peduncles one- to two- 
_ flowered, coming out of old withered pseudobulbs; but Dr. 
Lindley’s notes which accompany it, throw suspicion on that 
figure, which is probably made up from imperfect dried speci- 
mens ; for he says, “If it really forms racemes (as stated by oe i 
Lobb), it will have to be removed from the section Ludendro- 
bium, to Stachyobium.” It is a native of Attran River, in Moul- 
mein, and was imported by Messrs. Veitch and Sons, of the Exeter 
and Chelsea Nurseries. Our plant flowered in the stove of the 
Royal Gardens in April, 1859. ee 
Duscr. Caulescent, forming elongated, terete, jointed, nearly 
erect stems, rather than pseudobulbs, a foot and more long, 
leafy at the extremity. Leaves five to six or seven inches long, 
subdistichous, lineari-lanceolate, sheathing at the base. Peduncle 
not so long as the leaves, erect, slender, clothed with short, 
sheathing scales, and bearing five to seven rather large yellow- 
ish-white flowers, each about two inches broad (four inches, it 
would appear, in the dried native specimens). Sepals spreading, 
: oblong-lanceolate, the two lateral ones at their base forming a 
short, conical, straight spur. Petals oval, twice as broad as the 
sepals, very obtuse, with a few sanguineous streaks at the base. 
AUGUST Isr, 1859. 
