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DENDROBIUM. 



Calcutta Botanic Garden to Mr. W. Gr. Farmer, of Nonsuch Park, 

 in Surrey, to whom it is dedicated. The sub- variety albiflorum is 

 from the plains and low hills near Moulmein, and first appeared 

 in the collection of Messrs. Jacob Makoy and Co., at Liege, in the 

 spring of 1860 ; aureo-flavum is from the Arracan Mountains, and 

 was introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. in 1863, through the Kev. 

 C. Parish ; it closely resembles Dendrobium chrysotoxum, from which 





Dendrobium Farmeri. 



it may be distinguished by its quadrangular stems, looser racemes, 

 and differently shaped lip. Ever since its first introduction, D. 

 Farmeri has been regarded with high favour amongst horticulturists 

 as one of the most distinct and beautiful of the genus, and has 

 thence received especial attention at the hand of the cultivator, the 

 grand specimens in the collection of Baron Schroeder, at The Dell, 

 near Staines, being a conspicuous instance of success in that direction. 

 It usually flowers in May and June, but not infrequently much earlier. 



D. fimbriatum. 



Eudendrobium — Oalostachyce. Stems 4 — 5 feet long, sometimes less, 



cane-like, furnished along the upper halves with broadly lanceolate, acute 



leaves, 6 inches long. Kacemes loose and pendulous, G inches long, 



bearing 7—12 flowers, 2 — 3 inches in diameter. Sepals elliptic-oblong; 



petals oval-oblong, ciliolate, broader than the sepals, both sepals and 



petals bright orange-yellow ; lip orbicular, with a short convolute claw 



and fimbriate margin, bright yellow with an orange-yellow disc. 



Dendrobium fimbriatum, Hook. Exotic Fl. t. 71 (1831). Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. 

 p. 83. Paxt. Mag. Bot. II. p. 172 (1836). Id. Fl. Gfard. III. t. 84. 



var. — oculatum. 



Sterna usually shorter, more slender, and bearing somewhat smaller 



flowers, which have a large maroon-red spot on the lip. 



D. fimbriatum oculatum, Bot. Mag. t. 4160 (1845). Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. t. 84 

 (1852). Ill us. hort. I. t. 15 (1854). Warner's Set. Orch. II. t. 19. D. Paxtonii, 

 Paxt. Mag. Bot. VI. p. 169 (1839), not Lindl. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serres, VII. 

 t. 725 (1851). 



