1779 



DE1NDR(3bIUM cupreum. 

 Copper -coloured Dendrohium. 



GYNANDRIA MO^A^DRIA. 



Nat. ord, Orchide^ §. Malaxide^, Lindl. {Introduction to the 

 Natural System of Botany , p. 262.) 



DENDROBIUM.— Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. 



D. cupreum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis obtusls emarginatis, 

 racemis lateralibus laxis multifloris, bracteis ovato-linearibus canaliculatia 

 obtusis, sepalis ovatis obtusiusculis petalis oblongis explanatis obtusis mino- 

 ribus, labello unguiculato cochleariformi obtusissimo extus villoso intus nudo. 



D. cupreum. Herb. MSS. 



A native of the East Indies, whence it was sent by Dr. 

 Wallich to the Hon. and Rev. W. Herbert, about the year 

 1825. It flowered at SpofForth for the first time at 

 Midsummer 1834, when the drawing was made by Mr. 

 Herbert, which we have now the opportunity of pubhshing. 



It has been suspected that there are two Dendrobia in 

 the East Indies, which agree with each other in a sort of 

 tessellated appearance of the flowers, and a remarkably 

 inflated slipper-like hairy labellum ; one of these, called 

 D. moschatum, has pale orange coloured blossoms, and a 

 lip with 5 crested veins near its base ; the other, to which 

 the name of D. Calceolaria has been applied by Dr. Hooker, 

 has rose coloured flowers with a little yellow in the centre, 

 and is said to be destitute of the crested veins of the lip. 

 There is, moreover, a Z>. clavatum of Dr. Wallich's Indian 

 Catalogue, the specimens that were distributed of which 



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