Tas. 6050. 
DENDROBIUM tiruirtorom. 
Native of Tenasserim ? 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipE&.—Tribe Denprosiga. 
Genus Denprosium, Swartz ; (Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid., p. 74). 
Denprosium ituiflorum ; caulibus fasciculatis gracilibus elongatis dependent- 
ibus arundinaceis basi tuberosis, floribus ad nodos 1-5, sepalis patent- 
ibus oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis v.acutis petalisque latioribus ovato- 
oblongis lete purpureis, labelli lituiformis ungue convoluto incurvo, 
lamina orbiculari concava disco intense purpurea, limbo lato stramineo 
velutino margine anguste lilacino integerrimo. 
Denprosivm lituiflorum, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. (1856, May), p. 185. 
». Hanburyanum, Reichb. J. in Bonplandia, vol. iv. p. 329 (Oct. 1856). 
Dr. Lindley, the author of this species, observes that it 
belongs to the D. nobile group, but that besides its different 
habit, it isa much handsomer plant, with a longer lip and 
very acute petals and sepals. Its native country was un- 
known at the date of its publication, and is not now certain ; 
but judging from the number of forms allied to D. nodile that 
have lately been received from Rangoon, Moulinaine, and 
the Tenasserim provinces, it is most probable that it was 
imported from thence. Very shortly after Dr. ‘Lindley had 
published it, it was described as D. Hanburyanum by Prof. 
Reichenbach, and from the. same source—Mr. Hanbury’s 
garden. Our specimen flowered in the Royal Gardens in 
April of the present year. 
The specific name is derived from lituus, a kind of curved 
trumpet or clarion, in allusion to the form of the lip. 
Descr. Stems fascicled, eighteen inches Jong, as thick et 
a goosequill, reed-like, yellow, internodes about an inch 
long, the lowest tuberous at the base; sheaths short, ap- 
pressed, truncate, striate. Leaves not seen. Flowers solitary, or 
auausr Isr, 1873. 
