DENDROBIUM. 



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flowered in the collection of Mr. George Reid, at Burnham, in 

 Somerset. In the following year Dendrobium Falconeri was sent to 

 Europe, with other orchids, by Simons, who had collected it in 

 Assam and the Khasia district, the habitat of the species. It is 

 somewhat variable in the size and colour of its flowers, hence we 

 have an albidulnm* with pallid tips of the floral segments, and a 

 giganteum described above, which first appeared among one of our 

 own importations. The species is named in compliment to Dr. 

 Falconer, for some years Director of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 

 It flowers in May and June. 



Cultural Note. — Dendrobium Falconeri succeeds best attached to a block 

 of wood or tree-fern suspended near the roof glass of the East India house. 

 Its growing season is from March to October, during which time it 

 should be constantly and liberally supplied with water by syringing. 

 "When the season's growth is completed it may be removed to a cooler 

 house, and kept there during the winter months, during which time it 

 should be dipped or syringed once a week, or so often as is sufficient 

 to prevent an excessive shrivelling of the plant. 



D. Farmeri. 



Eudendrobium — Calostachyce. Stems 10 — 18 inches long, clavate, 

 elongated, four-angled, attenuated towards the base into slender foot- 

 stalks. Leaves oval-oblong, acute, 6 inches long, 2 — 4 in number 

 near the summit of the stems, persistent. Racemes pendulous, lax, 

 many-flowered. Flowers 2 inches across, the sepals and petals pale 

 straw-yellow tinted with rose, disc of lip deep ochreous yellow; sepals 

 oblong, acute ; petals broadly oval ; lip sub-orbicular, contracted to a 

 short claw, above which it is sinuate on each side, upper surface downy. 



Dendrobium Farmeri, Paxt. Mag. Bot. XV. p. 241 (1849). Van Houtte's Fl. 

 des Serves VII. t. 741 (copied from Paxt. Mag.). Bot. Mag. t. 4659. Linden's 

 Pesc. t. 4. Belg. hort. I860, p. 321. Jennings' Orch. t. 24. 



sub-vars. — albiflorumj (Belg. hort. 1860, p. 321 ; Regel's Gartenfl. 1868, 



t. 595; Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, 1882, t. 2461), flowers white, with 



disc of lip orange-yellow ; aureo-fiavum (Bot. Mag. t. 5451 ; "Williams' 



Orch. Alb. III. t. 99), flowers golden yellow, with disc of lip deep 



yellow. 



Native of the eastern part of the lower Himalayan zone, and 

 the Khasia Hills, also in the forests of Moulmein in British Burmah, 

 whence it has been frequently imported. It was first introduced 

 in 1847, in which year it was sent by Dr. McClelland from the 



* Rchb. in Gard. Chron. V. (1876), p. 688. 



t This is probably the same form as that known in some British collections under the 

 name of Woolley's variety. 



