The plant named by Reichenbach, and figured in this work (vol. v., t. 221), as 
Dendrobium Jamesianum, in honour of the late Mr. James Veitch, then the head of 
the firm at Chelsea, is considered by many a variety only of this plant, but we think 
it is quite a distinct species. This idea is not based upon the colour of the lip, 
which varies much, as it does in all the members of the nigro-hirsute section of the 
genus, but we have always found the true D. Jamesianum has the inner side lobes 
of the lip rough and asperous, and the spur is straight, whilst in the present, D. 
infundibulum the side lobes of the lip are quite smooth, and the spur is curved, 
so that we feel compelled to accept the dictum of Reichenbach. 
The plant here figured is a very fine variety, and flowered in the hae and 
choice collection of Major-General Berkeley, at Bitterne, Southampton, which is 
under the able care of Mr. Godfrey, and we ourselves have scarcely been without 
blooms of it during the whole season. We grow it in the lightest part of the 
Odontoglossum house, at the warmest end, and have found that a moist atmosphere 
is essential to its welfare during the entire year, but more especially during the summer, 
its growing season. It may be grown in a pot or hanging basket, but the soil should 
be made firm about its roots, taking care not to overload the roots with soil, neither 
should too great an amount of pot room be allowed. The pots should be specially 
well drained, using as soil good brown fibrous peat, and about an equal part of 
chopped sphagnum moss, adding a few medium-sized nodules of charcoal. The 
plants should remain in the house in which they open, taking care to avoid wetting 
the flowers from the syringe, as we have observed that even the most delicate blooms 
last in beauty considerably longer when so treated. 
