28 DENDROBIUM. 



from yXujpog (chloros), "green," and b\p (ops), "the eye," refers 

 to the greenish centre of the flower. The flowers usually appear 

 in the orchid houses of Europe in January and February. 



D. chrysanthum. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems slender, 5 — 7 feet long, slightly 



flexuose, leafy throughout. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 4 — 6 inches 



long, f — 1| inches wide at the broadest part, deciduous. Flowers in 



racemes of 4 — 6, produced from the current year's growth, while the 



leaves are still fresh, of firm wax-like texture, bright orange-yellow 



with two maroon spots on the lip ; sepals oval-oblong ; petals broadly 



obovate ; lip orbicular with fimbriate margin, rolled over the column 



at the base. Column very short. 



Dendrobium chrysanthum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1299 (1829). Kegel's Gartevfl. 

 t. 446 (1864). D. Paxtonii, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, misc. No. 56, not Paxt. 

 Mag. Bot. VI. p. 169. 



Native of the hot valleys of the lower Himalayan zone, whence 

 it was introduced into the Botanic Garden at Calcutta by Dr. 

 Wallich, who brought it to England in 1828; it is also widely dis- 

 tributed throughout Upper Burmah, varying somewhat in the size 

 and brilliant colouring of its flowers. It flowered for the first 

 time in this country in the Horticultural Society's Garden at 

 Chiswick, in 1829. The specific name is literally golden-flower, 

 from xpvaeoq, "golden," and avBoq, "a flower." 



Dendrobium chrysanthum is one of the handsomest of the late-flowering 

 Dendrobes. The grand specimen at Burford Lodge, probably the finest 

 in Europe, is grown in a teak basket, suspended close to the glass near 

 the ridge of the East Indian House In September, 1884, the flowering 

 stems, upwards of fifty in number, were loaded with golden blossoms, and 

 presented one of the most gorgeous orchid displays imaginable. The 

 plant begins to grow immediately after it has flowered ; more root room 

 is then given if it needs it, and as it continues to grow through the 

 winter months the temperature of the house is never allowed to fall 

 below 15° C. (60° F.), and the compost in which it is growing is 

 at no time allowed to get dry. 



D. chryseum. 



Eudendrobium — Calostachya>.. Steins much tufted, terete, somewhat 

 slender, erect, 12 — 24 inches high. Leaves from the uppermost joints 

 only, linear-lanceolate, acuminate or emarginate, 3 — 4 inches long. 

 Flowers from the leafless stems, sometimes solitary, but more com- 

 monly in racemes of twos and threes, of a rich golden yellow, almost 

 orange, with a few faint crimson lines on the side lobes of the lip ; 



