52 DENDROBIUM. 



Gualpara, in Assam, and sent by him to Sir Charles Lemon, in 

 1836 ; it was also communicated by that officer about the same 

 time to Dr. Wallich, who sent plants to Messrs. Loddiges, in whose 

 nursery it flowered in 1838; it has since been detected by Major- 

 General E. S. Berkeley in the interior of Burinah, in districts where 

 the rain-fall is much less than in other parts of the country. It 

 flowers profusely in March and April when affixed to blocks of wood 

 suspended near the roof glass of the Cattleya or intermediate-house. 



D. Kingianum. 



Stachyobium — Speciosce. A dwarf tufted plant. Stems pseudo -bulbous, 



2 — 3 inches long, dilated at base, angulate, attenuated upwards and 



bearing at their summit 2 — 5 oblong-lanceolate leaves, 2 — 3 inches long. 



Racemes slender, few flowered. Flowers less than an inch across ; sepals 



and petals whitish edged, and streaked with pale purple, the former 



ovate, acute, the latter similar but much narrower ; lip three-lobed, 



white streaked and spotted with purple ; the side lobes prominent, oblong, 



obtuse ; middle lobe sub-reniform, apiculate ; the disc with three raised 



lines ; spur blunt, yellowish at the tip ; crest tri-lamellate, yellow. 



Dendrobium Kingianum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844, misc. 18. Id. 1845, t. 61. Paxt. 

 Mag. of Bot. XII. p. 97. Bot. Mag. t. 4527. 



A native of South Queensland, Australia, in which colony it was 

 discovered, in 1844, by Mr. J. T. Bidwill, one of the early botanical 

 explorers of Australia and New Zealand, and for many years a 

 correspondent of the late Mr. James Veitch Senior, of Exeter; it- 

 was communicated by him to the Royal Gardens at Kew, and other 

 places shortly afterwards. A sub-variety called •pallidum has white 

 flowers with a few purple stripes on the labellum. 



D lasioglossum. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. Stems slender, 12 — 20 inches long 

 attenuated above and below. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, 3 — 5 inches 

 long. Flowers 1£ inches in diameter, in fascicles of twos and threes 

 from the uppermost nodes, white with some reddish streaks on the side 

 lobes of the lip, on the disc of which is a tuft of orange-yellow 

 hairs ; sepals ovate ; petals a little broader ; lip funnel-shaped, three- 

 lobed, the side lobes rotund with notched edges, the intermediate lobe 

 sub-quadrate, reflexed with undulate margin ; spur two-lobed. 



Dendrobium lasioglossum, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 18C8, p. 682. Bot. Mag. t. 5825. 



" Discovered by Colonel Benson in the forests of Burmah, and 



communicated by him to us, and to the Royal Gardens at Kew, 



where — and in the collection of Mr. Wentworth Buller — it flowered 



