Tas. 4477. 
DENDROBIUM Tortie. 
Twisted-petaled Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEm.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.) 
Denprosivm fortile; caulibus clavatis articulatis sulcatis vaginatis, foliis lineari- 
bus retusis subcoriaceis, pedunculo bifloro, sepalis oblongis acutiusculis un- 
dulatis tortilibus (petalis conformibus) 2 lateralibus in calcar retusum decur- 
rentibus, labello magno pubescenti-villoso obovato-cochleariformi basi intus ~ 
pulvinato. 
DEnprostum tortile. Lindl. in Gardener's Chron.* 1847. p. 197. cum. Ic, not 
All. Cunn. 
A native of Moulmain, imported by Messrs. Veitch through 
their collector Mr. Thomas Lobb, exhibited at the Horticultural 
Society’s rooms in May 1847, and presented to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew in April 1849. It produced its handsome and 
long-lived flowers in May. We adopt the name by which we 
have received it, for it is an expressive one, and the D. tortile 
of Allan Cunningham mentioned by Dr. Lindley in Bot. Reg. 
1839, Suppl. n. 31, is considered by the latter to be probably a 
Polystachya, and is, as far as I know, nowhere described. 
Descr. Our present plant exhibits no beauty in its stems or 
foliage. The former (on psewdo-bulbs) are about a span long, and 
club-shaped, jointed, sulcated, and for the greater part sheathed 
with pale brown, striated scales. The eaves are wholly confined 
to the yet unformed pseudo-bulbs, two or three in number, linear, 
channelled, retuse, subcoriaceous, obscurely striated. From near 
the apex of the old leafless pseudo-bulbs the peduncle appears, 
short, two-flowered. Ovary long, pedicelliform, purple. Flowers 
large, handsome. Sepals and petals uniform, oblong, spreading, 
* It is only since this page was in type that Mr. Veitch has referred me to the 
‘Gardener’s Chronicle’ for the name and figure; from which it will be seen that 
our representation is a very unfavourable one, for that six flowers are produced 
at one time on the pseudo-bulb. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1849. 
