Tas. 7639. 
DENDROBIUM oapriuuires. 
Native of Burma. 
Nat. Ord. OncnuipE#.—Tribe DENDROBIEZ. 
Genus Denprosium, Swartz, (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.) 
Deypropium (Eudendrobium) capillipes ; pseudobulbis 2-3-pollicaribus erectis 
adultis fusiformis-clavatis ad 3 poll. diam. leviter compressis, internodiis 
5-6 vaginis pallidis membranaceis rubro-fusco marginatis velatis, foliis 
paucis 5-6 poll. longis ad } poll. latis obtuse acuminatis late viridibus, 
pedunculo gracili laterali erecto foliis subequilongo 4-floro vaginis parvis 
distantibus instructo, floribus nutantibus, bracteis lanceolatis pedicellis 
(cum ovario) 4 poll. longis gracilibus dimidio brevioribus, perianthio 
explanato pollicem diametro aureo, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis quam 
petalis orbicularibus brevioribus, mento subcorniforme obtuso, labello orbi- 
culari emarginato, ima basi convoluto et in unguem brevem latam 
angustatos, disco basin versus costa crassa lata elevata postice rotundata 
instructo, anthera mitriforme apice truncata 3-loba. 
D. capillipes, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 997, and 1880, vol. i. p. 
743; Xen. Orchid. vol. ii. p. 164, t. 169. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. v. 
p. 751. Veiteh, Man. Orchid. Pl. Dendrob. p. 26. 
A very attractive little Dendrobe, procured by the late 
Rey. C. Parish, from hills north of Thayet-myo (?Thayetpa- 
mein, on the Sittang river), and of which he sent to Kew 
living and dried specimens in 1872. It has probably a 
wide range in the Burmese mountains, for, on a ticket 
attached to other specimens, he gives as habitat, ** Yanza- 
lin district, 1875, latterly on Ta-ok,” and Sir H. Collett 
collected a large flowered variety of it on the Shan Hills, 
at 3000 feet elevation. 
It may be seen from all the descriptions previously pub- 
lished, that the specimen here figured represents a much 
finer state of D. capillipes than those hitherto cultivated, 
in which the pseudobulb has three or four internodes, and 
the leaves are small and lanceolate. Further, the lip is 
described as having an orange blotch, or as in capillipes, 
var. elegans of Reichenbach (in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. i. 
p. 743) has a dark orange base, which in our plant is 
replaced by a few red streaks on each side of the base 
above the claw. 
Fesrvary Ist, 1899. 
