DENDROBIUM DEVONIANUM. 
| [PLaTE 488.] 
Native of Northern India, &c. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs slender, terete, pendulous and jointed, some three or four 
feet long. Leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat membranaceous, of a light green, and 
deciduous. Flowers singly or in pairs, produced in great abundance; sepals entire, 
lanceolate, white, tipped with bright rosy purple; petals the same colour, but much 
roader, being ovate in outline and ciliated; lip broadly cordate, i at the 
margin, white, with two large deep orange-yellow spots on the disc, and the point 
tipped with rich purple. Column white. Spur short. 
Denprosium Dervonranum, Paston’s Magazine of Botany, iii., p. 169. Botanical 
Magazine, t. 4429. Warner's Select Orchidaceous Plants, ii, t. 11. Flore des 
Serres, iii., t. 649. Illustration Horticole, 1857, t. 145. Belgique Horticole, iii., 
p- 204. Williams’ Orchid Grower's Manual, 6th ed., p. 279. 
This is one of the most beautiful of the Dendrobes which have ever been 
discovered, although when first found it was considered doubtful if it would prove 
any good from a horticultural point of view, on account of its short rigid habit, 
but we have imported it from its native country, and found it always bearing the 
same habit that it has under cultivation. Our old friend Gibson had the 
pleasure of finding this species on the Khasia Hills, and he sent it to Chatsworth, 
where its first flowers opened in 1840. Since that time the plant has been found 
to be widely distributed, having been discovered in various other parts of northern 
India, and also in Siam, in Burmah, and the southern provinces of China, so that 
it has an extensive range. The plant here figured flowered in the Victoria and 
Paradise Nurseries in the summer of 1893. 
Dendrobium Devonianum is a slender-stemmed pendulous plant, producing an 
abundance of its beautiful flowers, which have a charming effect when open; and 
one does not miss the leaves, from the stems being so well covered with blooms. 
It is, however, not seen in collections for many seasons in perfection, and yet it is 
a plant which can be grown with the greatest of ease, provided it gets an abundance 
of water to keep away the red-spider, which is its greatest enemy. For the copious 
supplies of water which the plant is to receive a good drainage should be provided, 
for whatever is given it must be drained away quickly, so that nothing remains 
about in a damp and decaying state, but everything about the Plant must be kept 
in a thoroughly clean and comfortable condition, and all will go well. The 
plants, as their growths begin to ripen, should have the water supply curtailed, 
