Plate 189. 



DENDROBIUM LOWII. 



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Mr. Low's JDendroUum. 



Gen. Char. {Vide siqjra, Tab. 102.) 



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apice obliquis subtus nigro-pubescentibus, racemis densis multifloris (floribns nnrois), pctulis 

 oblongis obtusis undulatis dorsali duplo longioribus, labello trilobOj lobis latariilibus brcvibns 

 lineari-lanceolatis incurvis paullo super basin insertisj intermedii loiig(^ ungniculati, liinbo 

 subrotundo convexo decurvo barbato, mento infundibuliformi^ columna semicylindrica O-dcn- 



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From Dr. Lindley's description of this plant in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle' 1 qn 



following remarks: — "A most attractive species, imported by Messrs. I/nv, of 



Clapton, from Borneo, and exhibited by them at a meeting of the Floral ( 

 the Horticultural Society. Fragments of what appears to be the same plant occur 

 among Mr. Motley's Orchids {n. 201), gathered at Banjarmassing. Tliu flowers are 

 admirably beautiful, produced in dense racemes as many as seven togother, and are 



fully two inches in diameter, of a charming yellow colour, set off in a strikin 



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SIX red lines on the lip, bearing long crimson fringes. The stem is upright, about a 

 foot long, covered with black, which also occurs on the under side of the leaves in the 

 shape of fine down. The species is evidently an ally of D. for moswn, of which it bns 

 samewhat the habit, but is slenderer, and has an entirely different flower in structure- 

 as well as colour." The plant is no doubt, as Dr. Lindley supposed, abundantly distinct 

 from n. formosum but the yellow colour cannot now be regarded as one of its distm- 

 guishing marks, some varieties having produced %vMfe flowers. 



It is rather a slow grower, and requires the constant heat of the Kast Indian 

 house, in which it usually flowers in the autumn or winter months. It grows on tre**" 

 in exposed places 3000 feet above the sea level. It was discovered in Borneo by 

 Mr. Low's son, to whom Dr. Lindley dedicated it; and well did he desenT the honour. 



Fig, 1. Column, lip, and b^wi ■-magnified. 



