Plate 102. 



DENDEOBIUM BARBATULUM 



Bearded-lipped BendroMnm. 



G&n. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus majoribns obliquis cum basi 

 producta columns connatis. Petala *sepalo supremo saepius majora, nunc minora, semper mem- 

 branacea. Lahellum cum pede columnas articulatum vel connatum, semper sessile indivisum vel 

 trilobum, ssepius membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colnmna semitcrcs, basi longe productfi. 

 Anfhera bilocularis. PoIUnia 4, per paria collateralia.—HerbBe epiphytce, nvnc caulesccntrs, mine 



mosiy sjpeciosi. Lindl 



hulbifi 



f 



remotis 



racemis terminalibus {lateralibusqne, Lindl.) strictis multifloris, periantliium explanntum 

 album, scpalis lanceolatis, petalis latissime obi)vatis, labollo trilobo, basi barbatulo, lobis 

 lateralibus parvis oblongis incnrvis purpurco-roscis, intermeJio latiKHimo cbcordnto npiculatn 

 intogcrrimo petalorum magnitudine, calcarc obtuso brcviusculo, 



Dendrobium barbatulum. Lindl. in Wall Cat. n. 2013. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 84. Paxton, Fl. 



Oard. V. 3. p. 113, (woodcut.) Batem. in Gard. Chron. 18Gt, p. 269. Bof. May. t. 5114. 



Dendeobium Fytchianum. Batem. in Gard. Chrun. 1864, 2>. 100. 



This very beautiful plant is a native of Moulmein, whence — after having disap- 

 peared from our collections for twenty years— it was reintroduced in 1863, through the 

 exertions of the Rev. C. S. P. Parish,"by whom it was forwarded to Messrs. II. Low and 

 Co., of the Clapton Nursery. 



The flowers are of the most dazzling whiteness throughout, except that the lateral 

 lobes of the lip are faintly tinged with crimson, and its disk adorned with a yellow 

 beard. They are scentless, and borne in graceful racemes a span long, some of them 

 consisting of from ten to twenty flowers. The latter continue fresh for weeks, and arc 

 the more welcome because produced (under ordinary circumstances) in the depth of 

 winter. Unfortunately, the slender linear leaves fall off before the blossoms have had 

 time to expand, but this drawback need not be allowed to interfere with the general 

 effect of the plant in a collection of Orcliids, where what is wanted in foliage may be 

 easily obtained by judicious grouping with other species. It grows freely if suspended 



block of wood, or — which is b 

 dish. It requires a decided season of 



ery shallow earthenware no 



Fig. 1. Column and spur. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Lip: — magnified. 



