DENDROBIUM ALBUM. 
[Puate 407 ] 
Native of Southern India. 
Epiphytal.  Pseudobulbs stem-like, pendulous, from a foot to two feet long, 
light green. Leaves some five inches in length, and an inch and a half in 
breadth, oblong, acute, membraneous, and rich green. Flowers borne upon the 
current year’s growth, in company with the foliage, and mostly in pairs; the 
dorsal sepals and petals nearly equal; the lateral sepals somewhat larger and more 
triangular, all of a creamy white; lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, enclosing 
the column; middle lobe somewhat acute, deflexed in front, the surface downy, white 
stained with yellow on the disc, the margin bearing a slight fringe. 
DENDROBIUM ALBUM, Wight, JIcones, t. 1645; Pazxton’s Flower Garden, 
un, p. 176. 
DENDROBIUM AQUEUM, Lindley, Botanical Register, t. 54. Botanical Magazine, 
t. 4640 
In the present species we have a member of the Dendrobes which has 
hitherto been at a discount with growers, although it has been known to cultivation 
for nearly fifty years; but in these days when white flowers are so much in 
demand, it should be considered an acquisition, more especially as the flowers are 
produced with its rich ereen leaves, and not upon bare and leafless stems. We 
have adopted Wight’s name in preference to that of Lindley, for we are under the 
impression that the learned Doctor was misled by some poor flowers which opened 
first in the establishment of the Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, and caused him 
to call them green and watery flowers, a description which those figured by us 
in this place certainly do not deserve. : 
For the opportunity of figuring this species, and thus making it more known 
to the Orchid growers of this country, we are indebted to the kindness of 
Thomas Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Whitefield, Manchester. It is a species which, 
we believe, deserves more extensive circulation, and we have little doubt that some 
fine varieties will be found to exist amongst the plants recently introduced. 
Dendrobium album is a_ beautiful species, which maintains its foliage until 
after the flowers are fallen. The flowers last some time in beauty, and are of a 
soft creamy white, except the base of the lip, which is stained with light 
yellow; they are produced singly, or in pairs, on the opposite side of the 
stem to the leaves, and it thus makes a pretty ornament, backed as the flowers 
are by its bright green leaves. The flowers are mostly produced at the 
end of summer, or beginning of autumn; but when the growth has been made 
late, we have known the plant to flower as late in the season as the month of : 
