Plate 166. 



DENDROBIUM EBURNEUM 



Ivory -flowered Bendrohium. 



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



DENDROBIUM e6urn<3um; caulibus erectis brevibus robustis folios.s vilhs deciduis sparse vo.tih., 



foliis coriaceis lanceoktis oblique obtusis, racemis laterali])us ve tcrmmabbus 2-0.fln„. o^^ 

 brevioribus, sepalis petalisque sub^quabbus lanceolatis acutiB lubclli tnlobi U..\^.r.^^2 

 brevibus rotundatis, intermedio triplo longiore lanceolato apiculato marg.uc creu..lato, n,entn 



liorlzontali sepalis vix aequali. 



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This fine DeMroUum was found in Moulmein by Mr. Parish, associntod with J) 



Hugh Low and 



formosum and other species with which we are now familiar. Messrs. 

 Co. received living plants of it in 1862, and one of these having been .con m flower b 

 Professor Reichenbaeh, he at once distinguished it under the charactcMstic namr of i^^ 

 ehumeum. The flowers have exactly the appearance of polished iv^ry winch is rel c^^ul 

 by lines of dark Eoman red, which occupy the lower portion of the disk of the 1 p ann 

 the base of the column. It flowers in the spring, and is of easy culture, requinn,, how- 

 ever, a warm situation durincr its season of giwth and flowenng. 



,.or1 2 Front view of the column 



Fig. 1. Flower, from which the sepals and petals arc remu.cd. I. 



«nd spur. 3. Pollen-masses: — magnified. 



