Plate 150. 



DENDROBIUM HETEROCARPUM 



Various-fruited Dendrohitim, 



Oen. Char. {Vide supra, Plate 102.) 



Dendrobtum heteromripum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongls acufcis planis, floribns grmi- 

 naiis ternatisque odoratis racemum spurium formantibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis acutia, pcfulia 

 ovatis acutis sepalo supremo majoribus^ labello unguiculato, limbo siibpandurifbrmi holosericeo 

 medio elongato acuminate piano. Liyidl. 



Dendrobium heterocai^um. Wall. Gat. n. 20. Lindl. Gm. et 8p. Orchid, p. 78. Bot. Mise.. \BU, 

 p. 49. n. 11. 



Dendrobium aureum. Lind. Gen. et Sp. Orchid, p. 78; and Var. pallidum, T^nc?l Bot. Mifr. 1809, 



i. 20. 



This handsome and fragrant Bendrohium was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 from Assam, through Mr. Simons, in 1852, and it flowered there in January, 1853; the 

 stems at that time, as is usual in the flowerinsr season, being without leaves. Dr. 



Wallich detected it in Nepal; and we have the authority of Dr. IJndlcy for consider- 

 ing his own I), aureum, from Ceylon, as well as the D. mireum, var. pallidum (lindl, 

 Bot. Miscell. 1839, t. 20), as mere varieties of one and the same species, wliich is tlius 

 shown to have a very extensive range. It is easily grown, especially if suspended near 

 the glass in a shallow pan. But it should always have a season of rest. 



Descr. Epiphytal. From several horizontal, fleshy, cylindrical, wavy roofs, spring 

 a cluster of tereti-clavate, ribbed, jointed stems, a foot or more long. Leaves oblong, 

 acute, plane, subcoriaceous, deciduous when the stem has attained its full development 

 and is ready to bear flowers. Peduncles very short, almost none, lateral, from the apex 

 «f a joint, solitary or two or three, and bearing each one, sometimes two flowers, of a 

 good size, and very fragrant. Sepals very patent, cream-colour, oblong, two lateral 

 ones decurrent into a rather long, obtuse spur. Petals also patent, broader and more 

 ovate than the sepals, otherwise resembling them, and of the same colour. Up pen- 

 clent, somewhat unguiculate and articulated on the prolonged base of the labellum, 

 very obscurely three-lobed, lateral lobes obsolete, middle lobe verj- large, ovate or sub- 

 Panduriform, and acuminated, the acumen much reflexed. The disk is cushioned and 



