Tab. 6903. 



DENDROBIUM clavaitm. 

 Native of tin Himalaya and Aaam. 



Nat. Ord. OucHiDEiE.— Tribe Ei'ini 

 Qenaa Dendbobh-m. Swarf*/ [lit nth. <■( Hook./. tit,,. /'/. vol. Hi. p. IUH.) 



hi nm;m:MM (Staclivuliimn) rtunilnw ; i"iuliluin I'lnti^atis n.linstis miI.m' 



perne Poliosis, internodiu taratibu raginii mbappreafit fate obteetia, fbliia 

 ooriaoeia oblongia oblongo-lanceolatUvo obtnais, raosmia lateralibu« plurifloria, 

 pedanoulo ocbre&a tranoatii raginato raehiqm robosto, bnoteia oblongi*, 



Horibui 2-3 ]M)1I. di.nn., senilis oblODgil p<-t :ili-« |U<- fen ort -icu I -it is obttnia 



aurast iacia, labeUo infra medium tabuloao dein la lafninam orbieularem iaboam< 



panulatam dilatato aurco intM tMgnineo, OW dilatato patanta etanulato fatal 



tomentoao, masajfaubui cbaevn bbatia fimb riat o-oi i la t i a. 

 D. davatam, Walk Cat N«>. 8004j UMLif Past. PI Gari. vol. (L p. 104, 

 fig. L89; H'irhii.f. in Walp. Ann. fol vi. ].. 298. 



Tins magnificent species has never been described or 

 figured in all its beauty as here represented, and yet it Is 



one of tin- curliest discovered of the golden Dendroh 

 India, having been found by Wallich in Nepal in L821, and 

 subsequently by his collectors in Silhet. Unfortunately 

 the specimens he distributed were not in flower, and the 

 species was hence passed over by Lindley in his "Genera 

 et species Orchidearuin." It was for some time Bupposed* 

 to be a variety of J), moschatum. The first description of 

 it is that in Lindley and Paxton's " Flower Garden, drawn 

 ii]) from Assam specimens that flowered in England;" it is 

 accompanied by a woodcut of the flower. Though baring 

 a wide range in distribution it must be a rare species ; 

 Strachey and Winterbottom found it in the North-Wesl 

 Himalaya in the province Kumaon, west of Nepal, which 

 i rhaps the westernmost limit reached l.y the vasl genus 



to which it. belongs, but it has not been recorded from 



Sikkim or Bhotan, and very few collectors havemef with 

 it in Silhet or Assam. It must not be confounded with 

 the h. clavatum of Roxburgh (It. sulcatum, Lindl., 



B much more common species, and to which, 



from its club-shaped stemj the specific name of elavaium 



MAY 1ST, 18^ 



