DENDROBIUM MACROPHYLLUM. 
[PLaTE 339. ] 
Native of New Guinea and Java. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs tufted, about a foot high, terete below, thickening 
upwards, becoming clavate and much furrowed, bearing on the apex two or three 
stout coriaceous leaves, Leaves some six inches long, sessile, oblong, unequally two- 
lobed at the apex, leathery in texture, and light green. cape terminal, erect, 
furnished with numerous linear-oblong membraneous bracts. Raceme nodding and 
many-flowered, individual flowers some two inches across. Sepals and petals 
spreading, the sepals much the larger, ovate-oblong, acute, yellowish green, paler at 
the back, and densely hairy; petals smaller than the sepals, somewhat spathulate 
and undulate, dull white; lip large, three-lobed, lateral lobes erect, almost reniform, 
curved, but not meeting over the column, yellowish green, ornamented with forked 
and radiating lines of reddish purple, anterior portion transversely oblong, apiculate, 
green with a few dots of reddish purple, arranged in regular lines, 
Denproprum MACcROopHYLLUM, A. Richard, Sertum, Astrolabianum, t. 9; Williams, 
Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., p. 292. 
DENDROBIUM MACRopHYLLUM VertrcH1anum, Reichenbach fil, Botanical Magazne, 
t. 5649. , 3 
Denprosium Verrcntanum, Lindley Botanical Register, 1847, t. 25. 
The typical Dendrobium macrophyllum is a native of New Guinea, and 
is a very rare and distinct species; we have had a totally different species in our 
gardens under that name for years ; this, however, some few years back, was 
discovered to have been earlier named D. superbum. It is a bold and handsome 
plant, a figure of which appeared in the first volume of the Orchid Album, 
plate 42. The plant we here figure was introduced by that successful collector, 
Mr. Thomas Lobb, whilst travelling for the Messrs. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, 
and for many years it has been cultivated under the names of D. macro- 
phyllum and D. Veitchianum. From the true D. macrophyllum it is said to differ 
chiefly in its lack of size, and Professor Reichenbach has decided that it is a 
variety only of the D. macrophyllum of A. Richard. This plant was discovered 
by Lobb in the hottest jungles of the island of Java, and although it cannot 
claim to rank with many of the gorgeous beauties of the genus Dendrobium, it 
is nevertheless a welcome addition to a collection where novelties and curious 
flowers are prized, and it is still a rare species, indeed, seldom to be seen, except 
in the best collections. The plant here represented was grown in the well-known 
collection of F. G. Tautz, Esq., Studley House, Goldhawk Road, Shepherd’s Bush. 
