DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS. 
[PLaTE 396.] 
- Native of Northern India. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs stem-like, slender, from a foot to eighteen inches or more 
in- length, and bearing numerous distichous leaves, which are narrowly lanceolate, 
membraneous, from three to four inches long, pale green, and deciduous. Flowers 
appearing when the stems are leafless, two or three together, individual blossoms about 
an inch and a-half across; sepals and petals white, suffused with rosy mauve or ros 
lilac, the petals much broader than the sepals; lip obovate-oblong, ciliolate, three-lobed, 
lateral lobes enclosing the column, creamy-white, with a large blood-coloured blotch at 
the base, the tip purple. 
DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS, Wallich. Lindley’s Genera and Species of Orchids, | Wk 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4663; Lemaire’s Jardin Fleuriste, t. 68; Paxton’s wer 
Garden, i. t. 27; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., p. 304. 
The splendid genus Dendrobium is one of the most showy of the whole family of 
Orchids, the species represented in our plate being a very chaste and pretty one. This 
was first made known to us by Dr. Wallich, whose collectors found it in the vicinity of 
Nepaul, but it did not reach this country in a living state until the Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons sent Thomas Lobb to India, and he found the plant growing on the 
“Garron Hills, at a place called Myrone, 5,000 feet above the sea-level,” and from 
thence it was sent alive to England. This species is abundant in the Himalayas, and 
of late years many of our collectors have sent it home. When well grown, it flowers 
in profusion, and it makes a very distinct plant to decorate our stoves, forming a 
good contrast with other kinds which flower at the same time. Moreover, the plant 
requires but small space to grow it to perfection. The drawing before us was 
taken from a plant in our own collection, in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 
Upper Holloway, in the spring of the present year. 
= DebatrebGie peste i a wey and distinct, somewhat small-flowered plant, 
which is deciduous. It has upright stems a foot or more high, and the Bowers appear 
in pairs or in threes for a considerable length up the well-ripened bulbs, in the same 
manner as those of D. nobile. The individual flowers are about an inch and s-half 
across a W. tr: i - its cific name ; in colour 
? nd are some ha anspi ] op blood-colourec ; | blotch 
ite, su i ilac or pinkish lilac, with : 
they are white, suffused with rosy lilac or pin Se eas ater ao | 
the blooms continuing in full beauty 
mall teak-wood 
at the base of the lip. The blooming season is 
and sometimes it may be found in flower in July, ees 
for several weeks. This species is well adapted = pos 
