54 DENDROBIUM. 



does it appear to Lave been since imported, or if so but very 

 seldom, as the plant has always been a comparatively rare one both 

 in British and continental collections. Dr. Lindley described it in 

 the Botanical Register under the name of Dendrobium wonili forme, 

 quoting Swartz as the author, the name by which it is still best 

 known in gardens ; Professor Reichenbach failing to identify it with 

 the D. moiiilifonne of Swartz, gave it the name under which it is 

 here described.* 



D. lituiflorum. 



Eudendrobitjm — Fasciculata. Stems 18 — 24 inches long, greyish 

 white, pendulous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3 — 4 inches long, deciduous. 

 Flowers 2 — 2| inches across, usually in pairs from the uppermost joints, 

 but sometimes 3—5 fascicled; sepals oblong-lanceolate, acute, amethyst- 

 purple, much paler at the base ; petals ovate-oblong, much broader and 

 more richly coloured ; lip curved like a trumpet with the bell upwards ; 

 claw broad, convolute over the column ; disc of limb downy maroon- 

 purple surrounded by a white zone, anterior margin purple. 



Dendrobium lituiflorum, Lindl. in Gard. Cliron. 1856, p. 372. Warner's Sel. Orch. II. 

 t. 3. Bot. Mag. t. 6050. D. lituiflorum robustius, Kchb. in Xen. Orch. III. p. 36, 

 t. 214. D. Hanburyanum, Rclib. in Bonpl. IV. p. 329. 



var . — candidum . 



Flowers larger, with sepals and petals pure white and lip pale 

 sulphur-yellow. 



D. lituiflorum candidum, Rehb. in Gard. Cliron. XIII. (1880), p. 585. D. litui- 

 florum albiflorum, Hort. 



var. — Fr eemanii. 



Stems short, stiff and erect ; sepals and petals deep purple ; zone of 

 lip sulphur-yellow. 



D. lituiflorum Freemanii, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. VIII. (1877), p. 744. D. Freemanii, 

 Hort. 



A beautiful species, nearly allied to Dendrobium nobile. It first 



became known in British gardens in 1856, when it flowered in the 



collection of the late Mr. Robert Hanbury, at The Poles, near Ware, 



but its native country was not recorded at the time. It is now known 



to occur in the warm valleys throughout Arracan ; it has also been 



collected in Assam, whence it spreads eastwards as far as Bhamo, in 



Upper Burmah. The variety candidum, which is in cultivation at 



Burford Lodge, is distinct and beautiful; Freemanii is the Assamese 



* The following is Swartz's diagnosis of Dendrobium moniliformc, published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Stockholm Academy of Science, in 1800:— " D. moniliformc— Caule tereti 

 simphci basi tnberoso, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, spicis erectis, floribus remotis alternis solitariis 

 pn.ccssil.us ,,l,uis]s. ' It cannot lie said that this brief description is applicable to the D. moni- 

 i.iforvu ol Lindley, nor is it raw to Bay which known species is referable to it. 



