DENDROBIUM SCHNEIDERIANUM. 
[PLaTEe 411.] 
Garden Hybrid. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs erect, stem-like, compressed, nodose, the internodes 
streaked with white. Leaves deciduous. Flowers borne upon long pedicels, mostly 
in pairs, between three inches and four inches across; sepals lanceolate, acute, the 
edges plain; petals much broader than the sepals, undulate, the ground colour 
creamy white, suffused with rosy purple at the tips; lip somewhat cordate at the 
base, the front lobe drawn out into an acuminate point, side lobes rolled over the 
column, the base downy, stained with orange-yellow, through which run numerous 
radiating lines of rich purple; in front of the orange-yellow is a zone of creamy 
white, the acuminate point being coloured, the same as the points of the sepals and 
petals. Column hidden, white, streaked with darker lines. 
DENDROBIUM SCHNEIDERIANUM, Rehb. fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1887, i. Third 
series, p. 209.  Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, iii., p. 90 
The genus Dendrobium is now a very large one, and the number of species 
and varieties which adorn our stoves are both numerous and beautiful. The 
one whose portrait is here produced is most chaste and elegant, arguing well 
for the rich combinations which we may hope to see when the many seedlings 
which now are in their infancy have arrived at a flowering stage. Natural 
hybrids amongst the species of this genus would not appear to be common, 
but some examples have from time to time appeared, to which a hybrid origin 
has been ascribed; these, however, have been collected in sufficient quantities to 
cast a doubt upon this supposition, and they have, moreover, been collected in wide 
and distant localities. Our specialists at home have produced a few very beautiful 
kinds, but it must be confessed that this genus has not received the attention at 
their hands which the ‘“ Lady’s-slipper” family has done. The first hybrid Dendrobium 
was obtained by an old and respected friend of ours, Mr. Dominy, when engaged 
in the nursery of the Messrs. Veitch, at Exeter, and it very deservedly bears the 
name of Dominianum. It is a very bright and cheerful flower, raised between D. 
‘mobile and D. Linawianum, the latter being then known under the erroneous name 
of D. moniliforme; since then we have had D. Ainsworthit and D. Ainsworthii 
roseum, raised by Mr. Mitchell, the last-named variety being figured in_ these 
pages, t. 20. The same forms were also obtained by Mr. Osborne, when gardener to 
H. J. Buchan, Esq., at Southampton. Grander forms of the same cross have also 
been obtained by Mr. Seden, at Messrs. Veitch’s, in D. splendidissimum and D. 
splendidissimum grandiflorum. D. Leechianum is also a superb form, raised by Mr. 
