DENDROBIUM INFUNDIBULUM. 
[Puate 448.] 
Native of Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Stems slender, cylindric, furrowed, and from one to two feet in 
length. Leaves distichous, alternate, linear-lanceolate, sheathing at the _ base. 
Peduncles developed from the upper joints of the stem-like pseudobulbs, bearing 
from two to five flowers. Flowers from three inches to four inches across, of a 
very showy character; sepals plane, oblong-lanceolate, acute, the lateral ones produced 
behind into a long curved spur; petals very broad, obovate, all of the purest 
snow-white; lip three lobed, side lobes obtuse, folded over the column, with a 
smooth surface, the front lobe oblong, with a bilobed apex, undulate on the margin, 
white, with a blotch of colour between the side lobes, which varies from bright 
cinnabar to pale yellow. 
DENDROBIUM INFUNDIBULUM, Lindley, in Journal of Linnean Society, ii., p. 16. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5446. The Garden, xxii., t. 368. Illustration Horticole, 
1874, t. 192. 
DENDROBIUM MOULMEINENSE, Hort. Low. 
This beautiful plant was sent from Moulmein to Messrs. Low and Co., of Clapton, 
about thirty years ago, by the Rev. C. Parish, then resident in Burmah, and it 
captivated with its beauty everyone who saw it blooming for the first time. The 
name of Dendrobium moulmeinense was given it by Messrs. Low, they being 
at the time under the impression that it was new; but although the Rev. C. 
Parish was the first one who sent living plants to this country, it had been 
previously found by Thomas Lobb, when collecting plants for Messrs. Veitch 
and Sons, of Chelsea, and from specimens sent home by him, it was named by 
Lindley some four years previous to its introduction in a living state, so that the 
name of moulmeinense had to give way to the one here adopted. This plant 
grows in the mountains of Moulmein, at from 1,600 to 6,500 feet elevation, upon 
deciduous trees, and sometimes upon rocks. At this altitude the temperature 
has a somewhat wide range, varying from about 38° or 40° up to 75° and §0°, 
and it has been found that in this country the plants thrive better under cool 
treatment than when subjected to greater heat. Only a few weeks ago we saw a 
vast quantity of this species growing and flowering in the establishment of Messrs. 
Low and Co., in quite a cool house, much better than others from the same 
importation which had been placed in warmer positions from the date of their . ie 
