ORCHID SPECIES 



DENDEOBIUM GLOMEEATUM, Rolfe. 



Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. xv. p. 653, fig. 80; Orchid Review, 1894, vol. ii. p. 169. 



A species imported from New Guinea, producing in small bunches from 

 unpromising-looking pseudo-bulbs flowers of a warm rosy purple tint, with 

 an orange-coloured labellum. 



This species is without doubt the finest of the Pycnostachyate or 

 " cluster-flowered " Dendrobes yet introduced. 



DENDBOBIUM GOULDII, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1867, p. 901. 



One of the numerous Polynesian introductions of the late John Gould 

 Veitch, in honour of whom it was named by Professor Eeichenbach, but 

 now unfortunately lost to cultivation. 



DENDEOBIUM HUTTONII, Bchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 686; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 49. 



Discovered in Timor, one of the islands of the Malay Archipelago, by 

 Henry Hutton in 1868, and an exceedingly rare, beautiful species with 

 pure white sepals and petals, now seldom to be found. 



DENDEOBIUM INFUNDIBULUM, Lindl., var. JAMESIANUM. 



Syns. D. Jamesianum, Rchb. f. 



Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 50 ; Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 554 ; PL and 



Pom. 1869, p. 187. 



Introduced through Colonel Benson, by whom it was discovered in 

 British Burmah, and dedicated by Eeichenbach as a distinct species to the 

 late Mr. James Veitch junior. 



The type species was collected by Thomas Lobb when travelling for 

 us in British Burmah, but was not introduced on that occasion. 



DENDEOBIUM JOHANNIS, Bchb. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1865, p. 890; Bot. Mag. t. 5540. 



A peculiar species having brown twisted sepals and petals, and a bright 

 yellow lip, discovered in 1865 in North-East Australia by the late 

 John Gould Veitch, who sent plants to Chelsea, where it flowered in 

 August of that year. 



DENDEOBIUM JOHNSON!^, F. Muell. 



Syns. D. Macfarlanei, Rchb. f. 

 The Garden, 1897, vol. li. p. 262, pi. 1113 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 59, fig. 



Ee-introduced in 1889 through the Eev. S. M. Macfarlane, who sent 

 plants from New Guinea, in which country he laboured as a missionary. 



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