HORTUS VEITCHI1 



Malay Archipelago, with bright cinnabar-orange-coloured flowers which 

 opened for the first time in July 1894. 



DENDEOBIUM SUPEKBIENS, Bchb.f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1876, vol. vi. p. 515 ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 76. 



One of the most striking of the Australian Dendrobes, a native of York 

 Peninsula and some of the islands in Torres Strait, whence it was 

 introduced by us in 1876, through the late Sir William MacArthur of 

 Sydney, New South Wales. 



DENDEOBIUM SUPEEBUM, var. ANOSUM, Rchb. f. 



(a) Hutton's var. 



(b) Burke's var. 



Gard. Chron. 1884, vol. xxi. p. 306 (Burke's var.) ; Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 1206 

 (Hutton's var.) ; Veitchs' Man. Orch. PI. pt. iii. p. 77. 



The variety anosum was introduced to this country by the collector 

 Cuming, and is remarkable for the almost entire absence of the rhubarb- 

 like odour which characterizes the species. 



Burke's variety is a very beautiful one, introduced in 1883 by the 

 collector whose name it bears. The flowers are large, of a pure white 

 colour, with the throat of the lip delicately pencilled with pale purple. 



Hutton's variety was sent home in 1869 from one of the islands in the 

 Malay Archipelago, and resembles Burke's variety, but the throat of the 

 lip is deep purple. 



DENDEOBIUM TAUEINUM, Lindl, var. AMBOINENSE. 



Orchid Review, 1897, vol. v. p. 304. 



A form of the Philippine " Bull's Head " Dendrobe, introduced through 

 David Burke from the island of Amboina, and first flowered at Chelsea 

 in 1897. 



The colour of the flowers differs from that of the type, the sepals 

 being greenish-yellow suffused with bronzy brown ; the petals are deep 

 purple-brown, as are the side lobes of the lip, the front lobe more 

 nearly resembling the sepals in colour. 



DENDEOBIUM TETEACHEOMUM, Rchb. f. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1880, vol. xiii. p. 712. 



Introduced from Borneo through Curtis, and named tetrachromum 

 by Professor Eeichenbach from the " four colours " of its flowers. 



DENDEOBIUM TIPULIFEEUM, Rchb. /. 



Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1877, vol. vii. p. 72. 



A species, of botanical interest only, introduced from the Fiji Islands 

 through Peter C. M. Veitch, and apparently lost to cultivation. 



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