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* DENDROBIUM Piemidi. 

 3l7\ PicrarcVs Dendrolnunu 



GYNAXDIIIA iliOA'/ixYD/?//l. 



Naf.ord.ORcni-DKiE § MalaxidetE, LindL (Introduction (o the Natural 

 Si/stem of ^^otany, p. 262.) 



DENDROBIUM.—Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. 



D. Pierardi ; caulibus pendulis glabris, foliis ovato-lanceolatls acutis, floribils 

 geminatis racemum spurium fbrmantibus, sepalis acuminatis membranaceis, 

 petalis sepalo supremo majoribus acuminatis, labello cucullato dilatato sub- 

 truncato pubescente ciliato. Gen. et Sp. Orch.p. 79. 



D. Pierardi. Roxb. FL hid. 3. 4S2. Hooker Exot. Fl. t. 9. 



Many years since an Orchideous Epiphyte was sent from Chitta- 

 gong with some other species to the Botanical Gjirden, Calcutta, 

 when Dr. Roxburgh named one of them Dendrohiinn Pierardi., in 

 compliment to the gentleman who discovered it. In his Flora Indica 

 Dr. Roxburo^h adds that it is also a native of various parts of the 

 Delta of the Ganges, where it is generally found on v»Iangoe Trees. 



No one ha? however been able to discover any plant which answers 

 exactly to Dr. Roxburgh's de:?cription of his J). Pierardi; and what 

 is now cultivated under that name in the Calcutta Garden appears 

 from Dr. Wallich's specimens to be the plant defined by Dr. Brown 

 in the seventh volume of the first series of this work under the name 

 of Z). cucidlatum. 



When the fiist part of the Genera and Species of Orchideous Plants 

 was published, we had satisfied ourselves that in all probability Dr. 

 Roxburgh had confounded two or three different species under the 

 common name of Z>. Pierardi; and accordingly we took the species 

 represented by Dr. Hooker in his Exotic Flora, as the authority for 

 the name, and we considered Dr. Brown's Dendrohium cucullatum, 

 to be a mere form of it. 



We have since had an opportunity of comparing P. Pierardi and 

 cucidlatum side by side, in the utmost perfection in the stove of tbe 

 Messrs. Loddiges, where these lovely species flowered in great splen- 

 dour in January last, forming festoons two or three feet long, 

 quite covered with the most delicate pink and yellow blossoms. At 

 first sight they are so entirely the same that one does not immediately 

 perceive in what their differences consist ; but upon a more attentive 

 inspection it is found that D. cucullatum has larger flowers, with a 

 broad roundish-ovate lip, the base of which is rolled up into a sort 

 of short stalk, while in D. Pierardi the lip is rounded and very 

 blunt, and its base is rolled into a much longer stalk, which quite 

 conceals the column ; it is moreover remarkably incurved. These 



* See folio 1239. 

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