DENDROBIUM CILIATUM. 
[Puate 454.] 
Native of Burmah. 
Kpiphytal. Pseudobulbs tufted, terete, slender, striated between the leaves, 
from six inches to eighteen inches in length. Leaves sub-terminable, sessile, oblong- 
acute, from two to three inches long, pale green, thin in texture and deciduous. 
Racemes terminal and lateral from the upper nodes, some twelve inches or more 
in length, many-flowered. Flowers about an inch across, dorsal sepal linear-oblong, 
the lateral ones being slightly falcate; petals oblong-spathulate, all of a uniform 
yellowish green; lip three-lobed, yellow streaked with bright brown; side lobes 
incurved, erect, but not covering the column; front lobe triangular, furnished on 
the edges with long clubbed hairs; disc bearing three equidistant raised fleshy 
plates. 
DENDROBIUM ciLiatuM, Parish in Hort. Low, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5430. 
The present species is neither a gay-flowered nor a showy plant, and it would 
not attract the attention of an ordinary observer, but to a trained and_ scientific 
eye it possesses beauties in its singular-formed’ and somewhat sombre-coloured 
flowers which are not observed by the ordinary amateur. It is now about thirty 
years ago since the plant was first discovered in Burmah, and sent home to 
Mr. Stuart Low, then the head of the Clapton Nurseries, with whom it flowered 
for the first time in the month of November, 1863, when it caused some excite- 
ment in the botanical world. The plant from which our drawing was taken grew 
and flowered in the choice collection of M. Finet, Argenteuil, near Paris. 
Dendrobium cihatum is a tufted species, forming stems from a few inches 
to a foot or eighteen inches long, and when the shortest of the plants have 
- flowered we have seen them distinguished by the varietal name of breve, but this 
we do not think is worthy of being made a variety, for the flowers are identical, 
and we have seen the plants which have been called breve, making pseudobulbs 
eighteen inches in length, thus proving the instability of the variety. It is a 
slender-growing plant, producing racemes as long as its bulbs, bearing from six to 
eighteen flowers, which are an inch across, the outer segments nearly alike, and all 
of a yellowish green, the lip being yellow streaked with reddish brown, and the 
edges ornamented with a row of hairs, which are clubbed at the points. The 
flowers appear during the autumn and winter months, lasting a considerable time in 
perfection. The plant may be grown in a pot, basket, or upon a block of wood; 
it is best to keep the variety breve upon the latter, for we have observed that 
when transferred to a pot or basket, it receives more nourishment than upon the 
