Tas. 7458. 
. DENDROBIUM Hitpesranptt. 
Native of Burma. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHipem.—Tribe EriIpDENDREZ. 
Genus Denprosium, Swartz.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol, iii. p. 498.) 
Denprosium (Eudendrobium) Hildebrandii ; caule elongato robusto compres- 
so sulcato fexuoso basi folioso, foliis lineari-oblongis inzqualiter obtuse 
2-lobulatis coriaceis deciduis, vaginis persistentibus papyraceis, racemis 
pluribus axillaribus 3-4-floris decurvis, pedunculis brevibus, bracteis 
brevibus tubulosis pedicello appressis, pedicellis cum ovariis 14-pollicari- 
bus, floribus 33 poll. diam., sepalis petalisque patulis lineari-oblongis 
subtortis obtusis v. apiculatis, labello late tubaeformi incurvo longiore 
quam lato primulino tubo dorso gibbo pubescente, limbo explanato 
cordato marginibus erosulis, disco velutino, mento brevi conico obtuso, 
anthera pubescente margine fimbriata. 
D, Hildebrandii, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin (1894), p. 182, and in Orchid. 
ie vol. iii. (1895), p. 49, cewm. Ic. Gard. Chron. (1895), vol. ii. p. 93, 
zgi bo 8 
A native of the mountainous Shan States in Hast 
Burma, where it was discovered at an elevation of 1500 
ft. by H. H. Hildebrand, Esq., in 1893, who sent living 
specimens to Messrs. Hugh Low & Co. of Clapton. 
It is said to grow in huge masses, upon one of 
which its discoverer counted one thousand five hundred 
blossoms. Mr. Rolfe considers it to be most nearly allied 
to D. signatum, Reichb. f., a native of the neighbouring 
country, Siam, and which belongs to the type of the genus 
most familiar to Indian botanists. In colour the flowers 
of D. Hildebrandit vary considerably, and Mr. Watson in- 
forms me that the one here figured is the palest that he 
has seen. Mr. Hildebrand collected specimens with three 
varieties of colour; one with sepals and petals pale green, 
and lip sulphur-yellow; another with sepals and petals 
creamy pink, and the lip yellow, and a third like the last, 
but with two dark chocolate blotches in the throat. 
The specimen figured was obtained from Messrs. Low. 
It flowered in the Royal Gardens in May of the present 
year. | 
_ Descr.—Stem twelve to eighteen inches long by upwards. 
of half an inch broad, compressed, flexuous, deeply groved, 
_ January Ist, 1896. . 
