DENDROBIUM MOSCHATUM CUPREUM. 
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Nate of Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Stems terete, striate, three to four feet high and as thick as a 
stout pencil, the internodes invested with a pale brown membrane, representing the 
sheathing bases of the fallen leaves, the older leafless stems floriferous. UVES 
oblong-lanceolate acute, subdistichous, dark green. Peduncles issuing from the nodes 
of the leafless stems, bearing a drooping raceme of about eight flowers, which have 
an ovate scarious bract, half-an-inch long, at the base of each pedicel. Flowers 
expanded, about three inches across, with a slight but agreeable coumarin odour, of 
a bright apricot-yellow, the lip somewhat darker; sepals oblong acute, narrowing 
upwards from a broad base, the dorsal one an inch and a half long by half-an- 
inch broad, tessellately veined, the lateral ones produced behind at the base (but 
not united) into a blunt spur; petals broader, obovate-oblong obtuse, tessellately 
veined, the spaces hetween the veins almost transparent; lip calceiform, about an 
inch long, closely folded back on itself, the edges incurved, these and the front part 
sib of a rather deeper tint of dull apricot, with a dark coppery orange 
lotch on each side near the base, the claw suffused with the same colour, the 
disk bearing a erest of five raised veins clothed with short coloured hairs. Column 
very short, concave, stained with a coppery red tint below the stigma, the lid 
Spotted with purple. 
DENDROBIUM MoscHATUM cUPREUM, Reichenbach fil. MSS. 
Denprosium cupreuM, Herbert, in Botanical Register, under t. 1779. 
Denprostum Catceoius, Williams, Orchid Growers’ Manual, ed. 5, 166; and 
of many gardens, | 7 . 
There is in gardens considerable misapprehension respecting the name of the 
Plant we now figure, which is generally known as D. Calceolus. The species properly 
80 called, is, however, the same thing as D. moschatum, which name has the 
precedence, and thus D. Calceolus should drop out of use. The plant which has 
been so called is, no doubt, as will be seen by our illustration, sufficiently different 
for D. moschatum to be grown alongside of it, and is, in truth, a very distinct 
and beautiful example of the great group of showy Dendrobes. It is =_™ — 
from Professor Reichenbach, the D. cuprewm of Herbert, but, as he is not yet 
convinced of its specific distinctness from D. moschatum, he prefers to regard it as 
@ variety under the name we have adopted. ae a 
figure of this Dendrobium brings many old associations to our minds. 
We recollect blooming the plant very many years ago, when there were not so 
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