Tab. 6383. 

 DENDROBIUM Brymerianum. 



Native of Burma. 



Nat. Ord. QbohiDe£, — Tribe Dbmsbobikx. 

 Genus Dbndbobiom, Swartz (Lindl. Oen. *f ; 8p. Orchid, p. 71). 



Dendrc-bium Brymerianum; caulibus teretiusculis leviter sulcatis supra basin 

 incrassatis, fbliis lanceolatis acuminatis, racemo iaterali paucifloro, bracteis 

 triangulari-ovatis, floribus 3-poll. diam. aureis, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis sub- 

 acutis, petalis eequilongis lineari-oblongis obtusiusculis, labello explanato 

 circumscriptione late ovato-triangulari v. cordato obtuso disco subpaleaceo- 

 papilloso, lobis lateraLibus bfevibus fimbriato-ciliatis ciliis subulatis margine 

 ciliolatis, lobo-terminali ovato fimbriis ipso longioribus dichotome ramosis 

 ciliolatis elegantissime circumdato, columna brevi, authera 3-loba. 



D. Brymerianum, Roichb.f. in Oard. Ohron. 1875, part 2, p, 323, and 1870, p. 3CG. 



This is certainly the most beautiful of the orange-coloured 

 Dendrobes, and the most singular ; nothing can exceed the 

 elegance of the long-branched fimbriation of the lip, and the 

 flowers themselves are the largest of the section. Reichcn- 

 bach first described it as a connecting link between the 

 sections Stachyobium and Dendrocoryne. One of its nearest 

 figured allies is the well-known D. fimbriatum (tab. 4160), 

 from which it widely differs in the narrower longer sepals and 

 petals, and in the form and enormously long fimbriation of the 

 lip. Dr. Reichenbach further remarks that all the six flowers 

 he examined had a strong tendency to become triandrous, 

 which seems to be the case in our specimen also ; he describes 

 the bracts as half as long as the pedicel and ovary, which is 

 not the case in the specimen here figured. 



D. Brymerianum was dedicated by its describcr to W. E. 

 Brymer, Esq., M.P., of Islington House, Dorchester, who 

 first flowered it in 1875, the plant having, it is supposed, been 

 one of Mr. Lowe's importations from Burma. It has since 

 then been flowered in great perfection by Mr. Salt, of Ferni- 

 <•] lurch, Shiply, and of .Messrs. Veitch, to whom I am indebted 

 for the opportunity of having it figured. 



Descii. Stems a foot high and upwards, terete, faintly 



URSMBBB 1st, 1878. 



