Tas. 4970. 
DENDROBIUM wererocarpumM; 
var. HENSHALLIIL. 
Various-fruited Dendrobium ; Mr. Henshall’s variety. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEHZ.—GYMNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4352.) 
DENDROBIUM heterocarpum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis acutis 
planis, floribus geminatis ternatisque odoratis raceemum spurium formantibus, 
sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis ovatis acutis sepalo supremo majoribus, 
labello unguiculato, limbo subpanduriformi holosericeo medio elongato acu- 
minato plano. Lindl. 
a. aureum; \abello luteo, disco aureo-sanguineo. 
Denprosrum heterocarpum. Wall. Cat. n. 20. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
p. 718. Bot. Reg. Mise. 1844. p. 49. ”. 11. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4708. 
DenpDRoBiIUM aureum. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 78. 
B. Henshallii ; caulibus gracilioribus, labello albo basi albo, disco maculis duabus 
atro-sanguineis (Tas. Nostr. 4970). : 
y- pallidum ; floribus minoribus, labello albo basi intus aureo. 
DENDROBIUM aureum; var. pallidum. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839. ¢. 20. 
5. immaculatum ; \abello pallide citrino. 
Even in our own stoves this pretty species of Dendrobium is 
liable to great change in the colour and markings of the labellum, 
as the above notice of varieties, that have come under our own 
knowledge, will show. 'T'wo of the above variations have been 
already figured ; a third is here represented ; and a fourth is now 
flowering (February, 1857) in the stove of the Royal Garden of 
Kew, viz. that with a very pale lemon-coloured lip, without any 
blotch of a deeper colour. The range of the species, In its na- 
tive state, is now known to be extensive: Ceylon, the Madras 
Peninsula, the northern (Nepal) and eastern (Assam) districts of 
Bengal; and recently the Messrs. Rollison have imported from 
Java the plant here figured, which, if it had been distinct, we 
MARCH lst, 1857. 
