tfO DENDEOBIUM. 



lobed, the side lobes basilar, oblong, white with a large purple spot 



at the anterior margin; intermediate lobe ctmeate-oblong, acute, white, 



purple at the base, as is the ligulate furrowed callus. Column white, 



bordered with purple on each side of the stigmatic cavity. 



Dendrobium Macfarlanei, Rcbb. in Gard. Ckron. XVIII. (1882), p. 520. Id. 

 XXVI. (1886), p. 811. 



A beautiful species sent to us, in 1882, from the Papuan 

 Institute, in Torres Straits, by the Rev. S. M. Macfarlane, to whom 

 it is dedicated by Professor Reichenbach. Its discoverer was the 

 late Mr. Hartman, of Toowoomba, Queensland, to whom botany and 

 horticulture are indebted for many plants gathered by him for the 

 first time in North Australia, and in the south-east peninsula of 

 New Guinea, the supposed habitat of this Dendrobe. Owing to the 

 exhausted condition in which the few plants that survived the long 

 journey reached us, none have yet flowered, but one derived from 

 another source flowered in the autumn of 1886, in the collection 

 of Mr. J. N. Hibbert, at Chalfont Park, near Slough, from which 

 the accompanying woodcut was taken. 



D. macrophyllum var. Veitchianum. 



Eudendrobium — Galostachyce. A robust plant. Stems clavate, com- 

 pressed, furrowed, attenuated below, 12 — 20 inches high. Leaves sub- 

 terminal, 2 — 3 on each stem, oblong, 6 — 10 inches long, persistent 2 — 3 

 years. Racemes erect, many-flowered. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; 

 sepals ovate-oblong, pale greenish yellow, hairy at the back, as is also 

 the ovary ; petals spathulate, smaller, whitish ; lip three-lobed, lateral 

 lobes rotund, ascending, greenish yellow streaked with purple ; middle 

 lobe transversely oblong, greenish yellow with radiating dotted purple 

 lines. 



Dendrobium macrophyllum Veitchianum, Bot. Mag. t. 5649 (1867). D. Veitch- 

 ianum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1847, sub. t. 25. 



The plant described above was first sent to the Exeter Nursery, 

 in 1846, by Thomas Lobb, who discovered it in the hottest jungles 

 in the island of Java. The typical Dendrobium macrophyllum, of 

 Achille Richard, which had been detected some years previously in 

 Western New Guinea, and which appears to have never been intro- 

 duced into Europe in a living state, is described as being " one 

 of the finest orchids, having leaves upwards of a foot long, and a 

 spike twice as long." * The flowers are deep yellow and very 

 hairy. 



* Bot. Mag. sub. t. 5649. 



