dO DENDROBIUM. 



lateral lobes small, rotund ; intermediate lobe oval-oblong, with a crisped 



and minutely toothed margin, and traversed by three longitudinal raised 



lines. 



Dendrobium Draconis, Echb. in Bot. Zeit. 1862, p. 214. Id. Xen. Orch. II. p. 130. 

 Id. Gard. Chron. XIX. (1883), p. 598. Williams' Orch. Alb. III. t. 103. D. eburneum, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5459 (1864). Revue hort. 1883, p. 132. 



Also one of the Rev. C. Parish's discoveries in Moulmein. and sent by 

 him to Messrs. Low and Co., in 1862, under the name of Dendrobium 

 eburneum, the name by which it is still best known in British 

 collections; the first published description of the plant, however, 

 appeared in Von Mold's Botanische Ziehing for the same year, from 

 the pen of Professor Reichenbach, under the name of I). Draconis, 

 ■which, therefore, has precedence, and must be retained. D. Draconis 

 has a "wide range in the eastern peninsula of India, it having been 

 reported from Siam, and also from South Cochin China. It usually 

 flowers in May and June. 



D. Falconeri. 



Eluexdrobium — Fasciculata. Stems slender, of various lengths, tumid 

 at the joints, which are 1 — 2 inches apart, and from the uppermost of 

 which are produced short, spindle-shaped, nodose branches with fascicles 

 of filiform roots, the whole plant presenting the appearance of a con- 

 fused plexus of stems, branches, roots, and leaves. Leaves linear, 

 acute, 3 — 4 inches long. Flowers solitary, 2 — 3 inches in diameter ; 

 sepals oblong-lanceolate, white tinged with pale rose, and with a rich 

 amethyst-purple blotch at the tip ; petals ovate, broader than the sepals, 

 white heavily tipped with amethyst-purple ; lip oval-oblong, obscurely 

 three-lobed, the lateral lobes partially turned over the column at their 

 base ; disc rich maroon-purple with a bright orange blotch on each side, 

 and a broad white band in front, the apex rich amethyst-purple like 

 the tip of the sepals and petals. 



Dendrobium Falconeri, Hook, in Bot. Mag, t. 4944 (1856). Tan Houtte's Fl. des 

 Serres, t. 1197 (copied from Bot. Mag.). Lindl. Gard. Chron. 1856, p. 692. Belg. 

 hort. 1874, t. 14. Fl. Mag. n. s, t. 226. 



var. — gigant eum. 



Stems longer and stouter, and furnished with larger and more leaves. 

 Flowers nearly as large again as those of the original type, and 

 remaining much longer in perfection. 



D. Falconeri giganteum, Hort. Williams' Orch. Alb. VI. t. 257. 



Long known as the finest of the Eudendrobium section. Its first 

 appearance in European gardens occurred in 1856, when a plant 

 said to have been imported along with others from the mountains 

 of Bhotan, and which had been purchased at an auction in London, 



