Tas. 4663. 
DENDROBIUM TrRansPaARENs.. 
‘ Transparent Dendrobium. 
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Nat. Ord. OncHIDE#.—GYNANDRIA MonoGyNIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TAB. 4352.) 
Dznprogrvum (Budendrobium) transparens ; caulibus elongatis teretibus articu- 
latis strictis, foliis subdistichis lineari-lanceolatis curvatis, floribus geminatis, 
sepalis acuminatis, petalis obtusis sepalo supremo paulo majoribus, labello 
obovato oblongo obscure trilobo apice recurvo ‘undulato ciliolato intus 
striato pubescente. a a 
DENDROBIUM transparens. Wall. Cat. n. 2008. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
p. 79. 
Specimens in our herbarium from Dr. Wallich show that this 
is the Dendrobium transparens of that author, a native of Nepal, 
which Dr. Lindley compares with D. Pierardt, a similarity more 
apparent in the dried than in the recent state. It is a native of 
Nepal, and probably many other parts of Eastern Bengal. Our 
plant was received among a collection of living Orchidee, sent 
to us from Assam by Mr. Simon. Few species are more 
lovely, even among the oriental Epiphytes, which are proverbial 
for their beauty over those of the New World. | The ground- 
colour is a transparent white, but all the petals and sepals and 
lip are tinged with rose-colour towards the apices, and the inside 
of the labellum has a large deep blood-coloured blotch passing ~ 
into strie at the edges. With us the species flowers profusely 
during the summer months, and the flowers are copious on the 
stem. ; 
Descr. Stems eight to ten inches long, as thick as a swan’s 
quill, clustered from a fibrous roof, and at the root swelling into 
a kind of bulb or tuber, about the size of a pea ; striated, jointed, 
the young ones bearing a /eaf at the joints, three to four inches 
long, linear-lanceolate, more or less acute, recurved, the bases 
of the leaves sheathing the whole stem, and striated. The old 
aveust Isr, 1852. 
