DENDROBIUM CHRYSOTIS. 
[PuaTe 419.] 
Native of Sikkim and Assam. 
Epiphytal. Stems erect, slender, tufted, somewhat swollen at the base, from 
two to six feet high, green tinged with purple. Leaves distichous, alternate, 
oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, from three to six inches long, and dee reen. 
Racemes axillary, issuing from the stem at the opposite side to the leaves, pendent, 
borne on the leafy stems, and from six to nine flowered, each flower measuring 
from three to four inches across, Sepals and petals spreading, oblong acute, 
entire, nearly equal in size, and uniform in colour, which is rich golden yellow ; 
lip almost cordate, deeply bordered round the edge with a thick bearded fringe 
ee half an inch in length, the surface being velvety and the ground colour more 
of an apricot hue than the petals, whilst at the base of the “lip are two large 
flaked spots of deep velvety-purple. Column short, white. 
DENDROBIUM cHRySoTIS, Reichenbach fil., Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1870, p. 1811; 
Warner’s Select Orehidaceous Plants, iii., t. 6; Florist and "Pomologist, 1871, 
p- 145; Illustration Horticole, 1873, 3 series, t. 155; Williams’ Orchid-Grower’s 
Manual, 6 ed., p. 274. 
Denprosium Hooxertanum, Lindley, Journal of the Linnean Society, iii., p. 8 ; 
oe Magazine, t. 60138; Reichenbach, Gardeners’ Chronicle, i, 8. 3, 1887, 
616. 
This is a grand and free-flowering species of Dendrobium, belonging to a 
section which is well represented by the better known D. fimbriatum oculatum, 
and of which it is a near ally. It was first discovered in Sikkim, in 1848, by 
Dr. Hooker (now Sir Joseph Hooker) whilst collecting seeds of the Rhododendrons of 
that district, and for which his name has become famous throughout the world; 
but to the late Mr. John Day is due the credit of its introduction in a living 
state to this country, through his nephew, Captain Williamson, who sent it from 
Assam; and Dr. Hooker says, “It is stated to come from Assam, which is very 
probable, as I discovered it in the neighbouring province of Sikkim growing on 
trees in a hot valley, at an elevation of 1—5,000 feet above the sea.” It flowered for 
the first time in Europe with the Messrs. Brooks, of Manchester, in 1870, and was 
exhibited before the Royal Horticultural Society in September of that year, when it 
was deservedly awarded a First Class Certificate. In the summer of the following 
year (1871) we imported a large quantity of this species from Assam, with strong, 
robust, rod-like stems, some five and six feet high, many of which flowered in our 
establishment, and proved extra fine varieties; but in spite of the numbers 
distributed from the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries and elsewhere, the species 
