HORTUS VEITCHI1 



DENDROBIUM ANNULIGEEUM, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1871, p. 675 ; Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 625 (W. B. Hemsley's List of 



Garden Orchids). 



Introduced from Marisa. The limits of the internodes along the 

 attenuated stems are marked with obscure bars, from which peculiarity 

 the specific name was derived. 



DENDEOBIUM ANTELOPE, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1883, vol. xix. p. 656. 



A curious species sent from the Moluccas by Curtis, and named 

 antelope by Professor Eeichenbach, from a fancied resemblance between 

 the erect antenniform petals and the straight horns of such antelopes 

 as Antelope Oreas. 



DENDROBIUM ARACHNOSTACHYUM, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 334 ; id. 1877, vol. viii. p. 38. 



Sent to Chelsea by Peter C. M. Veitch. The flowers were thought by 

 Professor Reichenbach to resemble green spiders ; hence the specific name. 

 Of botanical interest only, it does not now appear to be in cultivation. 



DENDROBIUM ATRO-VIOLACEUM, Bolfe. 



Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. vii. p. 512 ; id. 1894, vol. xv. p. 113, f. 12 ; Bot. Mag. 

 t. 7371 ; Orchid Album, t. 444 ; Jour, of Hort. 1894, vol. xxviii. p. 65, f. 10 ; 

 Orchid Review, 1895, vol. iii. p. 305, fig. 12. 



Introduced from Eastern New Guinea, and flowered for the first time in 

 Europe in April, 1890. 



Sir Joseph Hooker writes of this species in the Botanical Magazine as 

 follows : 



" Of all Dendrobes known to me I cannot recall amongst recent dis- 

 coveries one so strikingly unlike its congeners in coloration, and at the 

 same time so beautiful in this respect, as Dendrobium atro-violaceum." 



The sepals and petals are primrose-yellow with numerous dusky brown 

 spots, and the lip inside deep violet-purple, with a few paler radiating 

 lines near the margin. Outside the lip is green, with a large dark violet 

 irregular blotch on either side. 



DENDROBIUM BELLATULUM, Bolfe. 



Orchid Review, 1903, p. 103 j id. 1904, vol. xii. p. 135 ; Gard. Chron. 1904, vol. xxxv. 

 p. 258 ; Bot. Mag. t. 7985. 



This beautiful little plant, much like a miniature Dendrobium formosum, 

 was originally discovered by Dr. A. Henry in Yunnan, and afterwards 

 introduced to cultivation through Wilson, who sent home living plants in 



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