Tas. 6438. 
DENDROBIUM FINDLEYANUM. 
Native of Burmah. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHipzraz.— Tribe DENDROBIER. 
Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 74). 
Denprosium Findleyanum, caulibus articulatis, internodiis 2-3-pollicaribus e basi 
gracili clavatis inferne cylindraceis vaginatis parte incrassato obovoideo 
nudo sulcato, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis submembranaceis caducis, pedun- 
culis lateralibus 1—-2-floris, bracteis parvis appressis, pedicellis gracilibus 2-3- 
pollicaribus, floribus 3—poll. diamet. labello flavo excepto albis roseo suffusis, 
sepalo dorsali lineari-oblongo acuto, lateralibus ascendentibus recurvis paulo 
latioribus, petalis patentibus late oblongis obtusis, labello breviter stipitato 
rotundato-cordato margine undulato, disco velutino callo basi obscuro. 
D. Findleyanum, Parish et Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soe, vol. xxx. p. 149. 
Rteichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1877, part i. p. 334. 
When Dendrobium crassinode, Bens. and Reichb. f. (tab. 
nost. 5766) was first published in England, in 1869, it was 
considered, and very justly, as one of the most remarkable 
species then discovered, on account of the curiously-swollen 
internodes, which are not half the length but double the 
thickness of those of the present species. The latter, indeed, 
in respect of its internodes, form a Jink between that singular 
plant and D. nodatum, Reichb. f. (tab. 5470); and together 
with Bensonie, nob. (tab. 5679), and some others, forms 
a section of the genus of very distinct habit. 
D. Findleyanum is one of the Rev. Mr. Parish’s many 
Moulmein discoveries. It first flowered with Sir Trevor 
Lawrence in 1877; it had, however, been previously described 
from dried specimens and drawings, by Messrs. Parish and 
Reichenbach, in the thirtieth volume of the Transactions of 
the Linnean Society. The specimen figured flowered in the 
Royal Gardens in March of the present year, and was one of 
Mr. Parish’s many valuable donations to this establishment. 
Descr. Stems two feet long, jointed throughout their 
length ; joints green, two to three inches long, club-shaped 
JULY Ist, 1879. 
