4 I DENDROBIUM. 



margin ; sepals oblong-lanceolate ; petals elliptic-oblong, much broader ; 



lip clawed, with an ovate-cordate blade. 



Dendrobium Findlayanum (lapsu calami, Findleyanum), Parish et Rchb. in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. XXX. p. 149, 1873. Rchb. in. Gard. Chron. VII. (1877), p. 334. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6438. 



A remarkable species discovered by Mr. James Findlay, a merchant 

 trading in Burmah, while on a journey to Zimme, in 1867 — 68, 

 and who brought a single plant to the Rev. C. Parish, at Moulmein, 

 by whom it was sent to Kew as a dried specimen. Its habitat 

 is on the rocks on the higher parts of the mountain range separating 

 Burmah from Siam, whence it was imported some years later. It 

 flowered for the first time in this country in the collection of Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Burford Lodge, in the spring of 1877. 



D. formosum. 



Eudendrobium — Formosce. Stems 12 — 18 inches long, cylindric, nearly 

 as thick as the little ringer, leafy, and clothed with blackish hairs 

 when first developed, but furrowed and bare when mature. Leaves 

 ovate-oblong, 5 inches long, amplexicaul, unequally bilobate at apex. 

 Flowers white with an orange-yellow blotch on the lip, 3 — 4 inches hi 

 diameter, produced in fascicles of 3 — 5 from the axils of the uppermost 

 leaves ; sepals elliptic-oblong, apiculate, keeled behind ; petals obovate, 

 apiculate, as broad again as the sepals ; lip obovate-oblong, retuse, 

 turned over the column at the base, with a broad raised longitudinal 

 central band and erose anterior margin. Column triquetral, white. 



Dendrobium formosum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. p. 485 (1832). Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 1839, t. 64. Paxt. Mag. Bot. VI. p. 49. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serres t. 226. 

 Id. t. 1633-4 (var. giganteum). Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 308. 



Dewlrobium formosum has been long known as the finest of the 

 white Dendrobes ; individual flowers have been brought under our 

 notice, of which the petals were 2h inches broad, and the 

 funnel-like lip 4 inches long. It was introduced to European 

 gardens from the Khasia Hills by Gibson, who sent it to Chats- 

 worth in 1837, where it flowered in May in the following year. 

 It is widely distributed over north-eastern India and Burmah, from 

 Sylhet and the Garrow Hills southwards as far as Tavoy on the 

 Tenasserim coast. Roxburgh, its first discoverer, gathered it in Sylhet 

 and on the Garrows. In British Burmah it is abundant from 

 Moulmein to Tavoy, especially about Amherst, where the native women 

 use the flowers as an ornament for the head. Some of the finest 

 forms are found in the Mangrove swamps of the Andaman Islands, 





