[PLaTE 84.] 
THE DARK-EYED FRINGED DENDROBE. 
(DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM ; VAR. OCULATUM.) 
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A Stove Epiphyte, of great beauty, from the East INDIES, belonging to ORCHIDS. 
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Specific Character. 
THE FRINGED DENDROBE. Stems terete, leafy. | DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM (Sracuyosium) ; cauli- 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Racemes lateral, lax, many- b iosis, foliis ovato-lan tis, racemis 
flowered. Bracts herbaceous, minute. Sepals oblong, lateralibus laxis multifioris, bracteis herbaceis minutis, 
spreading flat. Petals larger, toothletted. Lip undivided, sepalis oblongis patentissimis, i 
rounded, hooded, shaggy, fringed ; the fringes lacerated. ticulatis, labello indiviso rotundato cucullato villoso fim- 
iis . 
Var. B. Dark-eyed. Flowers larger, with a deep . B ; oculatum, floribus majoribus, labelli medio 
brown spot in the middle of the lip. piceo aterrimo. 
Dendrobium fimbriatum : Hooker, Exotic Flora, t. 11 5 Lindley, Genera & Species, no. 38. Var. B ; D. fimbriatum ` 
oculatum : Botanical Magazine, t. 4160. 
0" this most beautiful plant our gardens contain two distinct varieties ; one with whole-coloured 
flowers; the other with a deep rich pitch-brown spot in the middle of the lip. In both, the colour 
is otherwise of a rich apricot-yellow, rendered the more brilliant in consequence of the surface and 
edge of the lip being cut up into glittering points innumerable. The first was sent home many 
years ago by Dr. Wallich, and flowered in the Botanic Garden at Liverpool about the year 1822 ; 
the second, now figured from Chatsworth, is of much more recent introduction, and is sometimes 
known under the erroneous name of Paztoni, which is a two-flowered species. The wild specimens 
in our possession, belonging to the second or dark-eyed form, were collected by Griffith in Mergui; 
the whole-coloured form seems to come only from Nepal. 
