1 6 DENDROBIUM. 



D. albo-sanguineum. 



Eudbndrobium — Fasciculata. A robust erect plant. Stems sub-cylindric, 



6 — 12 inches high and about half-an-inch thick. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 



6 inches long. Peduncles from near the apex of the stems, about as 



long as the leaves, 2 — 3 flowered. Flowers nearly 3 inches in diameter, 



pale buff-yellow with two large maroon-purple raised blotches at the 



base of the lip ; sepals oblong-lanceolate ; petals oblong-oval, as broad 



again as the sepals ; lip with a broad claw and broadly obovate blade ; 



spur short, funnel-like. Column very short. 



Dendrobium albo-sanguineum, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. p. 93, t. 57 (1852). 

 Van Houtte's Fl. des Serres, VII. t. 721. Bot. Mag. t. 5130. 



Introduced by us from Moulmein, in 1851, through Thomas 



Lobb, who found it on the hills near the Atran river ; it occurs 



in several parts of Burmah, almost always on the tops of the highest 



trees. It flowers in April and May from one and two-year old 



stems; its large flowers, produced in twos and threes, are among 



the most striking in the genus. 



D. amboinense. 



Eudbndrobium — Fasciculata. " Stems jointed, tetragonal below, bulbi- 



form at the very base, four to six-angled above. Leaves terminal (1), 



oblong, acute. Flowers in pairs, large ; sepals and petals spreading, 



cream-white, linear-lanceolate (nearly 3 inches long in the drawing) ; 



lip small in proportion to the rest of the flower, concave, scarcely 



spurred at the base, yellowish, edged with a dark purple line, three- 



lobed, the lateral lobes broad, ovate, obtuse, incurved over the column, 



the middle lobe subulate ; the disc ocellated with minute dark orange 



spots, and having a fleshy tuhercle near the base and two lesser pairs 



of tubercles nearer the middle lobe." — Botanical Magazine. 



Dendrobium amboiaense, Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 4937 (1856). Van Houtte's Fl. 

 des Serres, t. 1211 (copied from Bot. Mag.). 



Discovered by Henshall, in Amboyna, and introduced by Messrs. 



Rollisson, in whose nursery at Tooting it flowered in June, 1856 ; 



it seems to have disappeared from cultivation shortly afterwards. 



"This remarkable plant, and one of the most singular of the genus," 



is preserved from oblivion by the plate and description in the 



Botanical Magazine ; the notice of it here may also help to keep it 



in remembrance and to stimulate a desire for its re-introduction. 



D. amethystoglossum. 



Eudendrobium — Colostachyoi. Stems robust, 2 — 3 feet high, and 

 nearly an inch thick, but sometimes much shorter and less robust. 

 Leaves sessile, oval-oblong, sub-acute. Racemes 3 — 5 inches long, many- 



