DENDROBIUM JAMESIANUM. 
[PLaTE 221.| 
Native of Burmah. 
Epiphytal. Stems slender, jointed, terete, furrowed, one to one and a half foot 
long; the internodes clothed with the membranaceous sheaths of the leaves, the 
Sheaths bemg nigro-hirsute when young. Leaves oblong lanceolate, acute. Scapes 
blotched with brownish red, about two-flowered, terminal. Flowers three and a 
to four inches across, of a very showy and attractive character; sepals plane, 
, lanceolate-triangular acute, spreading, the lateral ones produced behind into 
cal spur, of a pure snow white; petals much broader, one and a quarter inch 
, the surface asperous, the front lobe quadrate with the apex dilated and retuse, 
late, the margins wavy, white with a large cuneate-oblong blotch of deep 
ar red on the discal area between the lateral lobes, the sides being marked 
divergent streaks of the same cinnabar red colour. Column thickened at the 
sharply eared on both sides of the apex. ; 
Dexprostum Jamustanum, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1869, 554; 
‘412; Moore, Florist and Pomologist, 1869, 187, with fig.; Williams, Orchid- 
rs Manual, 6 ed., 228, with fig. 
The Species we figure on the accompanying plate is for decorative and exhibition 
€s, one of the most chastely beautiful, as well as one of the most lasting, 
2 mmodating, and useful of the genus. It is of a free habit of growth, and can 
oe cultivated either in a cool house with Odontoglots or in a warmer compartment 
in mre i gets licht and heat. This species is a great deal like D. infundibulum 
— gtowth, its flowers and its requirements, though the stems of the latter are 
T and Seneraily taller and more slender: it blooms in the same way, and is of the 
duration as regards the effectiveness of its blossoms. We had several hundred 
S produced during our Orchid exhibition’ last year, and found them most useful 
Placing in masses among the Ferns, Palms, &c., and for mixing with the brighter 
the other Orchids. White flowers are, indeed, always in request. This 
be can now be bought at a moderate price, so that it is within reach 
ace eultiv ator. Our drawing was taken from one of the plants which bloomed 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. 
‘ronum Jamesianum was imported from Burmah. It is one of the nigro- 
“Pecies—those with black hairs on the membranaceous sheaths of the stems— 
from a foot to a foot and a half in height, producing its flowers several 
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