DENDROBIUM FYTCHIANUM ROSEUM 



[Plate 336.] 



J^ative of Bitrmah, 



Epiph}- 



eudobulhs stem 



oblong-lanceolate, acute; three to four inches 



and light 

 individual 

 obovate. 



green 



Racemes 



slender^ erect, a foot or more high. 



in leno-th, deciduous, thin 



mi 



nearly two inche 



erect, 



1 • ^ 

 bearmg" 



m 



Leaves 



in texture, 

 flowers, which measure 



across 



much broader than the 



lip 



pal 



ipals lanceoLate, pure rose colour 



petals 



and of the same lovely shade of colour; 



imson 



lobed, the lateral lobes small, erect, incurved over the column, purplish 

 anterior lobe large, obcorclate, apiculate, primrose colour, with a few hairs 



at the base, which are purple 



d with 



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Dendrobium Fytchianum, Bateman, Gardeners Chronicle, 1864, p. 100; Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 5444 (Z>. harbatuhim). 



Dendrobium Fytchianum ROSEUM, E. S. Berheley, Gardeners' Chronicle, third 

 series, i., p. 209; Williams' New Plant Catalogue, 1887, p, 22. 



Dendrohi 



is a very extensive g 



m 



we 



M 



have figured in 



previous volumes of the Alh 



species and varieties of which 

 There are many large 



grow 



kinds V 

 beautiful 



hich prod 



y 



show 



blossoms 



and 



there 



are 



also 



some 



kind 



amongst 



the smaller-flow^ered section, to which 



belong; 



' wdiose portrait we h 



pretty 

 tidiim), 



C: Pari 



through 



and 



one 



th 



oducec 

 has b 



The typical Dendroh 



Fytch 



the 



IS a 



very 



one 



H 



very 



founded with an allied species (D. harha 



om 



hich, how 



it is very distinct 



It 



was 



disco\^ 



th 



R 



in the year 1863, 



orrowmo: 



on trees 



overhanging 



the river that flow^s 



the Moulm 



district of Burmah , and it is named in honour of G 



Fytch, who accompanied Mr. Parish on th 



ney. It was sent by Mr. Parish 



to the Messrs. Low & Co., of Clapton, who succeeded in establishing it, 



and through 



hom it was distributed throughout the 



Orchid-growing w^orld 



The variety we here 



figure 



was found by Major-General Berkeley in 1886, 



some 200 miles distant from the habitat of the original species, growing on trees where 



rains 



and d 



are 



abu 



receivmg 



the whole 



portat 



during the growing season. We had the pi 

 ion from this gentleman, which w^e , ij 



of 



commerce last year, and 



our drawing 



, introduced to 

 w^as taken from one of these plants, which 



fl 



in the Victoria and Paradise Nur 



last 



year 



Major-General Berkeley 



is a keen obs 



and has discovered and introduced many new and rare Orchids 



to this country. We are informed by him that this variety is one of the earliest 



of the Dendrobiums to fl 



in the district in which it is g 



some 



plants 



