Plate 122 



DENDROBIUM INFUNDIBULUM. 



Fiitmel-lipped Bendrohmm 



Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Plate 105.) 



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I)^^T)ROBWM. infiuidibulum ; foliis lanceolatis angustis acutis, sepalis lincari-oblongis petalis ob- 

 • longis obtasis triplo latioribuSj mento infundibular! pedicello sequali^ labello lobis latoralibns 

 rotundatis integrisj intermedio serrulato emarginato. LindL 



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Dendrobium infundibulum. LindL in Linn. Soc. Trans. Batcm. in Qar<h CI run. 1802, /». 1104. 



The other day (November, 1863), while looking throngli the Nursery of Messrs. 

 Low and Son, at Clapton, I was shown living plants and dried specimens of n Dauhn' 

 Mum, which had been recently imported by the firm from Moulmein, and to which thry 

 had given provisionally the name of D. Moulmeinense, under whicli designation it is 

 already to be found in several collections. I thought the plant was undescribed, hut on 

 looking over Professor Lindley's 'Contributions to the Orchidolotry of India,' T at once 

 recognized in that able botanist's description of D. inrundihulmn (transcriber! above) 

 the very plant that Messrs. Low had distributed under the name of R Monlmeiwnfp* 

 and which they have the honour of being the first to import alive. It is a species of 

 surpassing beauty, and promises to more than rival its nearest relative, B. formof^nn. 

 A dried flower that is now before me measures, when laid flat, four inches across ; and 

 that such glorious blossoms are produced in the greatest profusion is evidenced by tlie 

 withered flower-stalks that crowd the tops of the imported stems. 



The Kev. Mr. Parish, from whom Messrs. Low received the plant, found it flower- 

 ing in February, upon the mountains of Moulmein, where it seems also io have been 

 discovered in a former year, at the height of five thousand feet, by Mr. Lobb. Mr, 



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mentions that he had forty-four blossoms open 



pnn some plan 



that he kept in a small basket, and adds that. they continued a very long time m per- 

 fection. I fear that here, as in the case of R harUtuUm, the form and size rs{ the 



sepals are liable to considerable variation. 



This plant, like all the other Lendrohia belonging to Dr. Lindley's nigro-hir^uto sco 

 tion of the genus, is very impatient of stagnant moisture, although it r^xi hardly hnv<. 



• It seems probable that tbe plant that generally goes by this name is a permnnenfc dwarf mountain 

 Tarietv, the lip of which is rather red than orange.— J. B. (ISCC). 



