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Tas. 6013. 
DENDROBIUM HooKERIANUM. 
Native of Assam and Sikkim. 
Nat. Ord. Oncnipem.—Tribe MaLaxipez § DenpRoBIEX. 
Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Gen. § Sp. of Orchid., p. 24). 
Denprosium (Holochrysa) Hookerianum ; caulibus fasciculatis foliosis, foliis 
oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis nervosis, racemis axillaribus paucifloris, 
bracteis minutis, floribus amplis aureis, sepalis petalisque conformibus 
oblongis acutis integerrimis, labello late orbiculato-cordato velutino 
profunde fimbriato, fimbriis barbellatis, intus basin versus maculis 
2 purpureis ornato, ungue convoluto intus calloso, mento conico apice 
rotundato. 
DeEnprosium Hookerianum, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 1859, vol. iii. 
p- 8. 
D. chrysotis, Reich. fil. in Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 1311. 
T am indebted to Mr. F. W. Burbridge, formerly of Kew, 
and now of the Fairfield N urseries, for the opportunity of 
figuring this, which is the largest flowered and freest 
owering species of the section to which it belongs. Mr. 
Burbridge describes it as growing vigorously in a Cattleya- 
house, flowering in September and October, and being 
especially valuable as a decorative plant, because of the habit 
(previously noticed by Dr. Masters, in Zhe Gardener's Chronicle) 
of flowering synchronously with the foliage, which is abundant 
and of a lively green. A specimen grown by Mr. Petch, the 
gardener at Manley Hall, near Manchester, produced at one 
time twenty-five racemes, with as many as nine flowers on a 
raceme, and this ona single plant. 
Dendrobium Hookerianum is stated to come from Assam, 
which 18 very possible, as I discovered it in the neighbouring 
Province of Sikkim in 1848, growing on trees in hot valleys, 
at an elevation of 1-5000 feet above the sea. In an excellent 
JANUARY Ist, 1873, 
