TaB. 7747. 
DENDROBIUM spectantte. 
Native of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. 
Nat. Ord. OxcurpEa.—Tribe Eripenprea. 
Genus Denprosium, Sw.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 498.) 
Denprosium (Latouria) spectabile; pseudobulbis 1-2-pedalibus cmspitosis 
simplicibus subclavatis flexuosis apice 3-5-phyllis, internodiis sulcatis 
supremis vaginis hyalinis deciduis tectis, foliis 5-8-pollicaribus subsessili- 
bus ovato- v. lineari-oblongis obtusis crasse coriaceis supra lete-subtus 
flavo-viridibus nervis obscuris, pedunculo infra-foliaceo ascendente elon- 
gato viridi basin versus vaginis paucis appressis viridibus obtusis aucto, 
racemo suberecto laxe multifloro, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis herbaceis, pedi- 
cellis cum ovariis 2-pollicaribus viridibus, floribus 3 poll. latis albis purpureo 
striatis et maculatis, sepalis petalisque 14 poll. longis patenti-recurvis 
flexuosis marginibus crispato-undulatis, sepalis e basi lata subulato- 
lanceolatis, petalis angustioribus, labello sepalis paullo longiore, lobis 
lateralibus brevibus lunatis crenatis columnam cingentibus, terminali 
anguste panduriformi in apicem recurvam angustatis marginibus valde 
undulatis, disco basi 3-calloso et lamellis erectis carnosis crenulatis 
instructo, mento brevi crasso, polliniis 2. 
D. spectabile, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii. p. 645. Rolfe Orchid. Rev. vol. iv. 
(1896) p. 356. Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. ii. p. 491, fig. 162. Journ. Hort. 
ser. III. vol. xxxix. p. 562, fig. 97. Cogn. Dict. Icon. Orchid. Dendr. t. 22. 
Kew Bulletin, 1900, App. II. p. 43. Sanders Cat. Orchid. &c., 1899, p. 7, 
cum ic, 
D. tigrinum, Rolfe ex Hemsl. in Ann. Bot. vol. v. (1891) p. 507. 
Latouria spectabilis, B/ume, Rumph. vol. iv. p. 41, t. 195, fig. 1, and t. 199, — 
fig.c. F. Muell. in Victorian Naturalist, vol. i. (1884) p. 52. 
This magnificent Dendrobe was discovered in New 
Guinea by Leschenault de La Tour, naturalist of Baudin’s 
voyage to the Pacific in search of La Peyrouse’s lost 
expedition. La Tour made a drawing of it, upon which 
Blume founded the genus Latouria, which he distinguished 
from Dendrobium by the lateral lobes of the lip, erro- 
neously supposing them to be connate. 
More recently it has been found in the easternmost islets 
of the Solomon Archipelago, namely, in Malaita, whence 
plants were obtained by Sir Trevor Lawrence, and in San 
Christoval, where it was collected by the Rev. R. B. 
Comins in 1890. The specimen here figured was kindly 
lent by J. T. Bennett-Poé, Esq., of Holmewood, Cheshunt, 
in January of this year. 
December Ist, 1900, 
