50 DENDROBIUM. 



D. Infundibulum. 



Eudendrobium — Funnuste. Stems cylindric, 15 — 24 inches long, some- 

 what thicker than an ordinary writing pencil. Leaves varying from 

 ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3 inches long. Peduncles pseudo- 

 terminal, 3 — 5 flowered. Flowers 3 inches in diameter, white with a 

 blotch on the lip that varies in colour from cinnabar-red to pale 

 sulphur-yellow ; sepals elliptic-oblong, acute ; petals sub-rhomboidal, more 

 than twice as broad as the sepals ; lip oblong when spread out, three- 

 lobed ; the lateral lobes convolute over the column, giving the lip the 

 form of a wide-mouthed funnel ; spur extinguisher-shaped, nearly as 

 long as the pedicel. 



Dendrobium Infundibulum, Lindl in Jour, of Linn. Soc. III. p. 16 (1858). Batem. 

 in Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 1194. Bot. Mag. t. 5446. lllus. hort. 1874, t. 172. The 

 Garden, XXII. (1882), t. 368. D. moulmeinense, Hort. Low. 



var. — Jamesianum. 



Stems stouter and more rigid. Lip of flower differently formed, 

 especially the side lobes, which are asperous on their inner surface ; 

 disc cinnabar-red.* 



D. Infundibulum Jamesianum, supra. D. Jamesianum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1869, 

 p. 554. Fl. and Pomol. 1869, p. 187. Williams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 221. 



Discovered by Thomas Lobb on the mountains of Moulmein, while 

 collecting' orchids for us in British Burmah, and from whose speci- 

 mens it was partially described by Dr. Lindley in the Journal 

 of the Linneean Society No. 9, 1858. It does not appear to have been 

 introduced to European gardens till 1862, when it was sent to 

 Messrs. Low and Co. by the Rev. C. Parish. It occurs on the moun- 

 tains of Moulmein at 2,500 — 5,000 feet elevation, on deciduous or 

 partially deciduous trees, and also in some places on rocks; under the 

 last-named circumstance its growth is considerably modified, the stems 

 being compressed and thickened into almost globular pseudo-bulbs. 

 At the above-mentioned elevation the thermometer ranges in the 

 shade from about 24° C. (75° F.) in the mid-day to 5° C. (40° F.), or 

 even lower in the morning at sun-rise ;\ the annual rainfall is there 

 exceedingly heavy, being more than 200 inches in the lower part of its 

 range. The variety Jamesianum was sent to us, in 1869, by Colonel 

 Benson, from the mountains west of Prome. It was subsequently 

 found by Major- General E. S. Berkeley, on the hills which separate 

 Burmah from Siam, where it grows on rocks with plumper and 

 shorter stems than on the Arracan Mountains, and where it affixes 



* Fide Rchb. loc. cit. + Colonel Benson in Gard. Chron. 1870. p. 763. 



