DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM ALBUM. 
[Puate 450.] 
Native of India. 
__ Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs stem-like, terete, pendent, swollen at the nodes, from 
eighteen inches to two feet or more in length, and furnished with oblong-lanceolate 
acute leaves, which are about three or four inches long, bright shining green, and 
deciduous. Flowers usually in pairs, although three are sometimes produced on the 
raceme, each measuring from three to four inches across, thick and waxy in texture ; 
sepals lanceolate, with blunt ends; petals oblong-ovate, much broader than the 
sepals, and all of the purest white; dip sub-orbicular, rolled over the column at 
the. base, which is of a deep orange-yellow, the anterior part pure white. 
DENDROBIUM WARDIANUM ALBUM, supra. 
The plant here figured is a remarkably handsome form, differing entirely from 
the variety known as Dendrobium Wardianum candidum in being quite destitute 
of the two velvety eye-like spots at the base of the lip. This plant, too, is more 
slender in its growth, and it has more the resemblance of the Assam plant than 
the Burmese one, the former being the typical plant, though some assert that the 
latter is the type, and the former a variety of it. The plant from Assam, 
however, flowered and was figured some twevty years before the late Mr. Stuart 
Low introduced the stout-growing kind from Burmah, which is called by some 
Wardianum Lowii, and by others Wardianum giganteum. By the latter name we 
have figured it in this work, Vol. ii, t. 113. Both forms produce magnificent 
flowers, but the Assam form would appear to bring forth flowers having richer 
and brighter colours, but. somewhat smaller in size. The latter plant, however, is 
somewhat more difficult to manage in a satisfactory manner. The plant we now 
have under consideration flowered with W. R. Lee, Esq., Beech Lawn, Audenshaw, 
= Manchester, in the spring of last year (1891), in whose garden are gathered together 
many choice and new species and varieties of Orchids, all of which are admirably 
managed by Mr. Billington, his gardener. 
In the variety candidum, the flowers are similar in size to those of the plant 
here figured, the sepals and petals being of a pure waxy white, and the lip 
stained with orange at the base; it has in addition two velvety eye-like spots 
in the orange, which the variety album is quite without, neither is the latter plant 
so strong in its growth as the variety candidum. 
