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PL. CLXXII. 



DENDROBIUM INFUNDIBULUM, 



FUNNEL-FLOWERED DENDROBIUM, 



nat. okd. ORGHIDAGEAE. 



ETYMOLOGY : from <W pov , a tree, and p ttC| life; growing upon tr,.- 



GENERIC CHARACTER: Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lah'ralibus • 

 connatis. Petala sepalo supremo saepius majora, nunc minora, semper membranaca 7 '' 



connatum , semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, saepius membranaca 



producta. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia. Ihrbv at 



bifero. Folia plana, saepius venosa. Flores solitarii fax* 

 Orchidaceae). 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER : Folia lanceolata angusta acuta; sepala lm™-„l,U. f ,- 

 infundibulare pedicello aequale; labellum lobis lateralibus rotundatis intwgria mtermedio 

 sylvis moulmeinensibus. — T. Lobb. in herb. Hooker. 



Dendrobium infundibulum , Lmdley in Litmean Society journal 1859 

 This beautiful Orchid was first discovered by M r T. Lobb who re-discovered il 

 upon the mountains of Moulmein at an elevation of more as mam U H op Q 

 than 5000 feet above the level of the sea, and was originally Tail 

 described by Doctor Lindley in the Journal of the Linncean \ times, aotablf at K 

 Society of London in 1857. Three years later it was noticed 

 in the Gardeners' Chronicle upon the occasion of a very line 

 specimen flowering at Messrs. Lows', at Clapton, under 

 the name of D. Moulmeinense , but which was really our 

 plant. but 



This species comes near to D. formosum, but greatly formotum and 1 

 exceeds it in beauty, having large flowers, often as much closely allied. 

 as four inches in diameter, beautifully tinted with a bright The plant iigun 

 purple. The erect stems are clothed with black bristly hairs Magastne, baa i 

 at the base , and frequently bear a large number of fully perceptible tinge < 

 expanded flowers at te same time. The Reverend M r Parish, orange, at the base 



INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT FLORENCE. 



Whatever the foreign visitors may have expected to see 

 at Florence on the twelfth of May last , it certainly could 

 not have been a repetition of the floral displays they had 

 witnessed during the past ten years in the great capitals of 

 Europe. The imaginative traveller would readily picture to 

 himself the inhabitants of classic Italy, that land of noble 

 deeds, fine arts and flowers— decking themselves in wreaths 

 of native flowers as in the days of the Roman conquerors, 

 and leaving to the northern peoples their costly and careful 

 culture. It was an overflowing abundance, a rich profusion, 

 combined with an indescribable southern fragrance, and an 

 intensity of glowing colour, developed by the ardent rays 

 of a semi-tropical sun, and not variety, that one looked for. 



But not to dwell too long upon our fancies, we may say 

 at once that we conjured up in our imagination some vast 

 garden of the Hesperides, a fairy orchard of golden apples 

 or orange trees, all bending beneath a grateful burden (in 

 the words of the poet) , " de fruits naissants et murs, de 

 fleurs et de feuillage. „ 



We expected to see Palermo with its grove of purple 

 spathed Date Palms ; Bordighera represented by its" Cardinal 



Palms ■ ; the Citron trees ol 

 Rose garlands of the comic 

 fences, and b< 



carpet the Solfatare of Po 

 of truly Italian national g;ii 

 of maiden-hair fern, groti 



flowers, sucl i 

 from Genoa t 



But this plea-wiit dn-am 

 the Exhibition we arc at 

 grand flower shows of the 

 our old acquaintances am 

 botanical and horticultura 

 selfsame plants which wc 

 Amsterdam and St. Peters 



But we experienced no t 

 are indeed greatly surpri; 

 tropical flow 



gratifying evidence that th 

 the most attractive we have* 



