DENDEOBIUM LINAWIANUM 



[Plate 141.] 



J^ative of China. 



Epiphytal. Stems erect, club shaped, somewhat flattened, light green, one to 

 two feet high, retaining the leaves for two years, when mature becoming deeply 

 furrowed and swollen below the nodes, the internodes partially sheathed by the 

 withered bases of the leaves: it is these tumid internodes which give the appearance of 

 a necklace, whence the name moniliforme came to be applied, though erroneously, 

 to the plant. Leaves distichous, oblong obtuse, obhquely emarginate, pea-greeii. 

 Peduncles from the axils of the leaves of the two-year old stems, or from the 

 joints whence the leaves have fallen, two to three flowered, with small acute 

 appressed bracts. Floivers bright coloured and pleasing, three inches across; sepals 

 oblong acute, venose, their base produced into a blunt striated spur, white below 

 and of a bright rosy pink in the upper half ; petals ovate, of the same colour as 

 the sepals; lip ovate, cucullate, reflexed, obscurely three-lobed, attenuated at the 

 base, and serrulate on the margin, with an elevated pubescent crest along the disk, 

 white below, having two crimson spots about the centre, the apical portion wholly 

 rich magenta-crimson. Column short, the lip articulated at the end ot its 



prolonged base 



Dendrobium Lin 

 SystematiccB, vi., 284 



Eeichenhach Jil MS. ; M, Walpers' Annales Botanice 



Dexdeobium moxiliforme, Liridley, Botanical Register t. 1314, non ^^'o^''^^ 

 Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 4153; Paxton, Magazine of Botany, m., 77; Mauna 

 Botanist, iv., t. 194; Annales de Gand, 1847, t. 137. 



This Dendrolium Linaivianum is a very old inhabitant of our Orchid houses, and 

 a most distinct and beautiful kind ; it is better known, however, under the^ name 

 of D. moniliforme, which was formeriy applied to it in error, but which it will 

 no doubt long retain. Amongst the older race of Orchid cultivators, we used to 

 exhibit it under the name of D. moniliforme at the Chiswick and Regent s Park 

 Exhibitions, where it was shown in the form of large specimen plants, and formed 

 one of the prettiest and most distinct looking Orchids in the show. 



the numerous novelties, which have since been introduced, there have been 



Althou- 



amonofst 



many which produce splendid flowers as regards size, form, and colour, tnerc 

 been one only that is at all similar to the present species, and that, which ^voK- 



Heichenbach has named D. nohile f( 



and which is very much like D 



Linawianum both in its growth and in its flowers, we imported about two > 



ago 



from the Island of Formosa. The drawing, of our present siibject, -'^^^f^^ 



pecimen growm in the collection^ of G. AV. Law-Schofield, 



from a remarkably fi 



Esq., New-Hall-Hey, Eawtenstall, near Manchester ; the specimen was about two t _ 

 . and as much throngh, and was one mass of Uossoms. Mr. ^^ise, th 



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