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of the following year; these plants were collected on the Khasia 

 Hills, at an elevation of near 4,000 feet, where they were found 

 attached to trees and to rocks. 



Dendrobium ochreatum, better known in gardens under the name 

 of D. Cambridgeanum, is one of the few Dendrobes of the Fasciculata 

 group that produces its flowers from the young growths before they 

 are fully matured, and while the leaves are still fresh; they usually 

 appear in March and April. 



Cultured Note. — As one of the most showy and beautiful of the 

 yellow-flowered Dendrobes, and being of manageable size, D. ochreatum 

 has received assiduous attention from cultivators. A remarkable instance 

 of successful cultivation was brought under our notice not lono- ao-o 

 at Ashton Court, near Bristol, where a plant bore upwards of 180 

 flowers in one season. This plant is taken into a cool vinery after 

 it has completed its growths, and kept there during the summer months 

 till the new shoots begin to push, when it is taken back to the East- 

 India house. The plant had not been removed from the basket in 

 which it was growing for several years, but had received an annual 

 top-dressing of sphagnum, peat and charcoal. It has been observed 

 of D. ochreatum, that if the young shoots are very vigorous they fail 

 to produce flowers, a circumstance that may be due to more causes 

 than one, as hypertrophy, immaturity of stem at the season of 

 flowering, etc. 



D. Palpebrse. 



Eudendrobium — Calostarhyce. Stems clavate, four-angled, attenuated 



below, 7 — 9 inches long, with 3 — 5 oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves at 



their summit. Eacemes loose, 6 — 10 flowered, produced from the joints 



immediately below the leaves. Flowers with a faint hawthorn fragrance, 



Trench white with an orange-yellow disc near the base of the lip ; 



sepals oblong ; petals oval, broader than the sepals ; lip oblong, with 



a short convolute claw, downy above and with a fringe of long hairs 



near the base ; column yellowish. 



Dendrobium Palpebrse, Lindl, in Jour, of Linn. Soc. V. p. 33 (1849). Paxt. Fl. 

 Gard. I. p. 48 (1850—51). 



Introduced by us, in 1849, from Moulmein, through Thomas Lobb. 



Its nearest affinity is Dendrobium densiflorum, from which, however, 



it is thoroughly distinct, especially in its more lax racemes of smaller 



white flowers, which usually appear late in the summer. The specific 



name, Palpebroe, {C eyelids," refers to the fringe of long hairs like 



eyelashes near the base of the lip. It is found sparingly throughout 



Burmah, varying in colour from white to dark rose. The finest 



and most floriferous varieties come from the Kareen , Hills.* 



* Major-General E. S. Berkeley, MS. 



