DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM GIGANTEUM 



[Plate 113.] 



KaUvG of Bminali. 



Epiphytal. Stems stout, pendulous, deciduous, attaining tlireo feet in Iciigtli, knotty 

 at the nodes. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at the npex. Racemes two or 

 three flowered, issuing from the nodes of the matured stems. FIo<r^s Inrge nnd 

 conspicuous from their striking colours; sepals oblong-lnnccoLite, 1)lunti8h, wliitc tipped 

 with magenta-rose, the margins reflexed ; petals oblong-ovate, obtuse, white more 

 deeply tipped than the sepals; Up cucuUate, the base folded over the eoluniii, the 

 anterior portion ovate-obtuse, recurved at the tip, entire, the surface^ covered Willi 

 crystalline processes, the colour golden yellow at the base with a pnir ..f mnr.H.u- 



thc maroin and middle portion creamy wliiff, tlie apex ti]ipcd like 



imson ..,.w.^, ^^^ ......^ 



the petals with deep magenta; spur short. _ Cohmn short, depressed, ahnnst Indd.n 

 in the base of the lip, the anther-case white. 



Dendrobium Wardiaxum, E, }\arner, Select Orchidaceous Plan f<^, Ror I, t 10; 

 Jennings' Orchids-, t. 2 ; nillustratwn Ilortlcolc, scr. 3, t. 277 ; Gardeners Chronicle, 

 N.S., viii., 241, fig. 50. 



Var GIG WTEUM —Habit more vigorous and more erect than in the ordinnry 

 form; sterna stouter and less nodose, foui- to five feet long; flowers larger, and of 

 stouter substance, otherwise as in the type. 



Dendrobium Wardianum giganteum, Williams & Moore, suprn. 

 DEXDr.OBiuM Wardiaxum Lowii, Smith, Floral Magazine, n.s., t. 212. 



■ The flowers of the plant we now bring under the notice of our rcad^-ns are of 

 the most perfect form, of the richest colours, and also of very large size. It ls 

 altogether a stronger grower than the type of the species named in complinieiit to 

 Dr. Ward, of Southampton, and of which a fine figure is published m J>latc 19 of 

 the first series of Warner's Select Orchidaceous Plants. By a compnnson of the two 

 illustrations, it will be seen that the typical plant has much thiiH..r and more 

 tapering stems, and that the flowers are of a smaller size than in the variety now 



upon, though the colour and marking are equally brillinnt m both. Ihc 



ated 



larger {orm. air/anteum, cdso comes from a different country, the smnlW kin.l Laving 

 been introdueed from Assam. wMe tlie larg.r one comes from _ Bu,m.,h, wh.el, 



diff. 

 a i>l 



may account for the difference in their growth. Our sketch w.^takcu U 

 the collection of D'.Uroy Salamon, E,q., of rinph.m T.rk where .t has 



bloomed two years in succession. There is in cultivation a variety of V. II a.dui 

 with white flowers, which has been bloomed during the kst two or three years from 

 imported plants. It is quite interesting to find that in most of the prmcpal genera 



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