46 DENDROBIUM. 



inches in diameter, deep orange-yellow with two maroon spots at the 

 base of the lip ; sepals and petals nearly equal and similar, broadly 

 oblong ; lip oblate-orbicular, villous on the surface, fimbriate on the 

 margin."* 



Dendrobium fuscatum, Lindl. Jour, of Linn. Soc. III. p. 8 (1858). Bot. Mag.t. 622(3. 



Discovered by Sir J. D. Hooker in the hot valleys of the Sikkim 

 Himalayas and on the Khasia Hills in 1848 — 50, where it is far from 

 common. Its nearest affinities are Dendrobium ehrysanthum and D. 

 fimbriatum, from both of which it may be distinguished by its smaller 

 flowers of a less bright hue, and from the latter chiefly by the 

 double spot on the lip. 



D. Fytchianum. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. Stems slender, erect, 12 — 18 inches high. 

 Leaves oblong lanceolate, acute, 3 — 4 inches long, deciduous. Kacemes 

 pseudo-terminal or lateral, 10 — 15 flowered. Flowers 1| — 2 inches in 

 diameter, white, except the side laciniae of the lip which are tinted 

 with rosy purple ; sepals lanceolate ; petals obovate, nearly three times 

 as broad as the sepals ; lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes small, incurved ; 

 the intermediate lobe broadly obcordate, apiculate, and having tufts of 

 yellowish hairs at the base. 



Dendrobium Fytchianum, Batem. in Gard. Chron. 1864, p. 100. Bot. Mag. t. 5444 

 (D. barbatulum). 



var.— roseum. 



"Sepals and petals rose colour; the lateral lobes and base of middle 

 lobe of labellum crimson-purple ; the villous process at the base deep 

 purple tipped with orange." 



D. Fytchianum roseum, E. S. Berkeley, in Gard. Chron. I. s. 3 (1887), p. 209. 



A beautiful species, much resembling the better known Dendrobium 

 barbatulum,, with which it has sometimes been confounded, but from 

 which it is clearly distinct in its more slender stems that are 

 not swollen at the base ; in its naiTOwer sepals, broader petals, 

 and totally different lip with coloured side lobes. It was discovered 

 in 1863, by the Rev. C. Parish, growing on trees over-hanging one 

 of the rivers that flow through the Moulmein district of British 

 Burmah, and introduced by Messrs. Low and Co. soon afterwards. 

 It is named in compliment to General Fytcli, who was accom- 

 panying Mr. Parish at the time of the discovery. The variety was 

 gathered by Major-General E. S. Berkeley, in 1886, in Burmah, in 



* Abridged from Bot. Mag. sub. t. 6226. See also note under Dendrobium Oibsonii. 



