Plate 195. 



DENDROBIUM HILLII. 



Mr. HilVs BendroUum. 



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



Hillii ; caulibus 



catis, foliis 4-6 ellipticis vel oblongis crasso-coriaceis atro-viridibus enervns, racemo pcnau u 

 pedali et ultra 4 imcias lato, floribus numerosissimis sepalis e lata basi scnsim subangust. 

 attenuates, petalis liuearibus, labello oblongo transversim fusco-lineato, lobo medio orbiculari, 

 disco subbicarinato. 



Dendrobium Hillii. Bot. Mag. t. 5261. 



r 



In Ills notice of this plant (1861) Sir William Hooker wrote as follows :-" Many 



Mr. J. Smith 



living samples of this fine Ben iroli 



from Moreton Bay to the Eoyal Gardens of Kew, with an opinion expressed that it 

 might possibly be the 1). nndulatum of Brown's Prodr. p. 332. I do not find that they 



but one thin^ is certain, that I possess in my herbarium a spec.men of 



flowered 



the true 3. ,in<Mcami of Mr. Brown, with the correct name 5" M^; C"»'""S''«™;'; 



handwriting; and another specimen from Albany Island, from A. C ^^J^'g^'i' l^"^ 



F. Mueller's Fragm. Phytogr. Anstr. fasc. 4. p. 87) ; and also from Port Curtrs, gath re d 

 by Mr. M'GiUivray during the voyage of the ' Rattlesnake ' (1847) ; it is a ve y rt,ft - 



spedes from that now under consideration. The J), nndulatum has 



«^ ... name 



would imply, singularly undulated petals and sepals of very lund -'^^ -f jj; 



segments to the lobes of the lip, and it is also a native of Java. ^'-"J 



that his D. discolor, from the latter country, figured in Bot. Beg. for 1841, tab. ..i 



) 



identical with Mr. Brown's B. nndulatum 



99 



The present- plant must then be considered a new speoes; and as ou -.„ ^r 

 mens wer derived from the very zealous botanist and snpenntenden f the Bo^ 

 Garden at Moreton Bay, Mr. Walter HiU, Sir William aedicjcd^.t to h.m. J. 



without the flowers this plant standing by the side "* f^J^^I. jobulbs or stems 



gnized as distinct, in consequence of the greater leng ^^^^ ^ ^^^ ^^^^ 



may be 



and of the 



The dense drooping racemes of R timi ana 



