DENDROBIUM. 



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The original Dendrobium fimbria turn was discovered by Wallich 011 

 the lower ranges of the Nepalese Himalayas in 1820, and was sent 

 by him to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where it flowered for the 

 first time in Europe in 1822. The variety oculatum was sent by 

 Gibson to Chatsworth from the Khasia Hills in 1837; it had, 

 however, been gathered by Griffith in Burmah in the year pre- 

 ceding, and where, many years afterwards, it was found by Colonel 





Dendrobium flmbriatum. 



Benson in the plains and on the mountains east of Prome, so that 

 the geographical range of the species is very considerable. The 

 typical D. fimbriatum, the finest of the orange-yellow Dendrobes, is 

 not now often seen in British collections, but the variety oculatum 

 is generally cultivated ; it is remarkably floriferous, as many as 123 

 racemes bearing 1,216 flowers having been counted on a single 

 plant.* 



D. Findlayanum. 



Eudendrobium — Faseiculata. Stems 15 — 20 inches long, with yellowish 

 green, compressed, club-shaped joints, 2 — 3 inches long, very slender at 

 their base. Leaves from the base of the swollen nodes, oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, 3 inches long, deciduous. Flowers 2 — 3 inches in 

 diameter, generally in pairs, on pale lilac pedicels, produced from the 

 upper end of the swollen nodes, pale lilac suffused with white, 

 except the lip, which is ochreous yellow, fading off to white at the 



* Communicated to us by Mr. Bland, gardener to S. K. Mainwaring, Esq., of Oteley Park, 

 Shrewsbury. 



