Plate 137. 



DENDROBIUM FALCONERI. 



Br, Falcone/ s DendroUum, 



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



{§ Dendrocoryne) Falconerij caulibus hie illic ramosis elongatis pendulis gracil 



paryis 



am 



ovatis ssquilongis patentibus apice purpureo 



undulato 



m 



calcnrc 



brevissimo. 



The sample here figured is only part of a stem, which was three to four feet long, 

 with upwards of sixty flowers upon it, and which first bloomed in the collection of 

 George Keid, Esq., of Burnham, Somerset, in the spring of 1856, almost immediately 

 after its importation. It is a native of the mountains of Bootan, at an elevation of 

 4000 feet. Mr. Reid purchased it, under the name of Bendrohium Falconm, at an 

 auction in London. It certainly is among the most lovely of the genus, and very dis- 

 tinct from D. Wardianum (Warner's ' Select Orchids '), with which it is sometimes 



unaccountably confounded. . , 



It should be grown in a mixture of potsherds, peat, and sphagnum, and suspended 

 in a shallow pot or pan full of holes. The ordinary temperature given to Dmlr^uia 

 ^'iW suit it, but it should be allowed two or three months' rest in tlie spnng, by bcmg 

 removed to a cooler and drier situation (a vinery will do), where it 

 till it begins to show flower. Care, however, should be taken that the stems ao 

 not shrivel. 



Descr. Stem, rather than pseudobulb, long, slender, branched, pendulous, joint e^^, 

 the joints contracted in the middle, and consequently nodose at their point ot junc lo , 

 striated. Leaves few, one to three, terminal, very small and ^"^f ^'^'""';^j"''^'; 

 J^lowers large, copious upon the branches. Peduncles solitary, arising from a ?^^^^^^^^ 

 tion, slender, single-flowered. Se:pals spreading, oblong-lanceolate, so^le^^nn ^ ^^^^, 

 acuminate, pale rose-colour, tipped with' dark purple. Petals eqim in le ^^^^^ ^ 



should 



'"pais, but much broader, ovate, acute rather than acuminate, wn ic-u, , . 

 troad patch of deep purple spreadhig horizontally. Lip large, cucuimtc ^_ 



fe«.-«« obscurely three-lobed, cordate, acute, waved ; the ground-colour « , 



