56 DENDEOBIUM. 



increasing the confusion. In 1858, Lindley, in "Contributions to the 



Orchidology of India" (Juurn. Linn. Soc), again had to deal with 



D. pulchdlum, which he did by including under that name both the 



plant of Loddiges and D. Deoonianum of Paxton. Finally, Professor 



Eeichenbach, in Walper's Annates, rescued D. Devonianum, which he 



established as a variety of D. pulchellum. The two are, however, not 



only quite distinct in their flowers, but totally dissimilar in habit, 



stature, and leaves, and cannot be regarded as forms of one species." 



Finally, the plant is not a native of India at all, but is of Chinese 



origin, specimens gathered in the island of Hainan having been 



recently sent to Kew by Mr. Charles Ford, of the Botanic Garden 



at Honp'-Kono-. 



D. longicornu. 



Eudexdrobium — Formosce. Stems slender, 8 — 12 inches high. Leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, 2 — 2i inches long, deciduous. Flowers solitary 

 or in twos and threes, not fully expanding ; sepals and petals sub- 

 equal, elliptic-oblong, transparent Avhite ; lip funnel-shaped, with the 

 anterior margin fimbriate, white with a raised broad central band, 

 which is orange-red, but sometimes pale yellow, with divergent lateral 

 streaks of the same colour as the band ; spur slender. 



Dendrobhim longicornu, Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 80 (1831). Bot. Reg. t. 1315. 

 A native of Sylhet and the lower Himalayan zone, from Nepaul 

 to Assam, discovered in the early part of the present century by 

 Dr. Wallich, and introduced by him, in 182S, to the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden at Chiswick, where it flowered in the spring of 

 the following year. It has also been detected by Major- General 



E. S. Berkeley, near Tomyo in Burmah. Although one of the 

 commonest of East Indian Dendrobes, it is not so much in repute 

 among orchid amateurs as the larger- flowered species of its section, 

 Dendrobhim formosum, D. Draconis, etc. 



D. Lowii. 



Eudendrobium — Formosce. Stems slender, a foot or more high, leafy 

 along the upper half. Leaves ovate-oblong, obliquely emarginate. 

 Flowers H inches in diameter, in fascicles of 3 — 5 from the upper- 

 most joints, on pedicels coloured like the perianth; sepals and petals 

 buff-yellow, oval-oblong, the petals undulate and broader than the sepals; 

 lip distinctly three-lobed, the lateral lobes oblong, erect, pale buff-yellow 

 stained with red at the apex; the middle lobe oblong, refiexed, pale 

 bud-yellow traversed longitudinally by six lines of long red hairs 

 springing from a crimson base; spur long, funnel-shaped. 



Detidrobiuni Lowii, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 1046. Bot. Mag, t. 5303. 

 Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serves, t. 2395 (copied from Bot. Mag.). 



