Tas. 4708. 
DENDROBIUM HETEROCARPUM.: 
Various-fruited Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. Oncnipace#.—Gynanpria MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.) 
DENDROBIUM heterocarpum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis acutis — 
planis, floribus geminatis ternatisque odoratis racemum spurium formanti- 
bus, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutis, petalis ovatis acutis sepalo supremo ma- 
joribus, labello unguiculato, limbo subpanduriformi holosericeo medio elon- 
gato acuminato plano. Lindl. 
Denprosium heterocarpum. Wail. Cat. n. 20. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. 
p. 78. Bot. Mise. 1844. p. 49. 2. 11. ; 
DENDROBIUM aureum, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 18; and Var. pallidum, 
Lindl. Bot. Mise. 1889. t. 20. : 
This handsome and fragrant Dendrobium was received at the 
Royal Gardens at Kew from Assam, through Mr. Simons, in 
1852, and it flowered in our Orchideous Stove in January, 1858 ; 
the stems at that time, as is usual in the flowering season, being 
without leaves. Dr. Wallich detected it in Nepal; and we have. 
the authority of Dr. Lindley for considering the D. awreum of © 
that author (Gen. et Sp. Orchid., from Ceylon) a deep-flowered — 
variety of this, and the D. awreum, var. pallidum, Lindl. Bot. 
Miscell. 1839, t. 20, as a more than usually pale-flowered variety 
of the same. Thus it is a native of woods in Ceylon, at the 
southern extremity of the Madras peninsula, as well as of the 
northern and eastern boundaries of Bengal. Much new light 32 
will be thrown upon the limits of species of Orchideous plants eee 
Dr. Lindley’s most laborious new work, the ‘ Folia Orchidacea,’ — 
and so important a task cannot be entrusted to better hands. — 
Drscr. Epiphytal. From several horizontal, fleshy, cylindri- 
cal, wavy roofs, spring a cluster of tereti-clavate, ribbed, jointed — 
stems. Leaves oblong, acute, plane, subcoriaceous, deciduous 
when the stem has attained its full development and is ready to 
APRIL Ist, 1853. 
