18 DENDROBIUM. 



yellow, with the interior edge cream colour, and Avith two maroon-purple 



blotches at the base ; spur short and obtuse ; anther case purple. 



Dendrobium Aphrodite, Ifohb. in Bot. Zeit. 1862.* D. nodaturn, Lindl. in Gard. 

 Cliron. 1862, p. 717. Bot. Mag. t. 5470. Van Houtte's Fi. des Sevres, t. 1582. 



One of the numerous discoveries of the Rev. C. Parish, in the 



Moulmein district of British Burmah, and introduced by Messrs. Low 



and Co., of Clapton, in 1862. It is found on the tops of the 



highest trees in company with Dendrobium albo-sanguineum. Its 



flowering season is July and August in the orchid houses of Europe. 



D. aqueum. 



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



stoutish, yellowish-green when young. Leaves ovate-oblong, acute, 3 — 5 



inches long. Flowers solitary or in pairs, produced along the distal 



half of the current season's growth, but not all appearing at the same 



time, cream-white except a yellowish disc on the lip ; dorsal sepal 



elliptic-oblong, acute, lateral sepals sub-triangular, falcate ; petals broadly 



ovate, spreading ; lip sub-rhomboid, obscurely three-lobed, the lateral 



lobes small, erect, the middle lobe deflexed, with the upper surface 



downy and the margin ciliolate. 



Dendrobium aqueum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 54. Bot. Mag. t. 4640. D. album, 

 Wight, Icon. PI. Ind. or. t. 1645 (1852). Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. p. 175. 



Introduced by Messrs. Loddiges, from Bombay, in 1842. Its 

 habitat is on the Nilghiri Hills, in southern India, where it was 

 gathered a few years afterwards by our collector, Thomas Lobb, and 

 quite recently by Major-General B. S. Berkeley, who found it 

 ' ' growing in great quantities on the extreme tops of Coffee bushes 

 of deserted plantations." In this part of the Western Ghauts the 

 rainfall is excessive, as much as 10 inches a day during many suc- 

 cessive days having been noted. It usually flowers in August or 

 September. The species was named aqueum by Dr. Lindley, on 

 account of " its pale green watery flowers," an expression that 

 scarcely does them justice. 



D. arachnites. 



Eudendrobium — Fasciculata. A dwaif-tufted plant. Stems terete, 

 about as thick as an ordinary writing pencil, 2 — 3 inches long. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, \\ — 2£ niches long. Flowers in fascicles of twos 

 and threes, but sometimes solitary, 2£ inches across when spread out, 

 of a uniform bright cinnabar-red, the lip veined with purple ; sepals 



* Reichenbach's name with description of the plant appeared August 1st, 1862 ; Lindley 's 

 was published 24 hours later ; Lindley's nodaturn must therefore sink as a synonym of 

 Kcichenbach's Aphrodite. 



