DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS ALBUM. 
[Puare 522] 
Native of Assam. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs stem-like, slender, about eighteen inches or more in 
height, bearing numerous distichous leaves which are somewhat broadly lanceolate, 
from three to four inches long, pale green, deciduous. Flowers produced usually 
im pairs from the nodes of the leafless pseudobulbs, the upper nodes usually bearing 
only single flowers, the lower nodes sometimes producing three flowers; they 
measure from one inch to one and a-half inches across, and are pure white without 
the slightest trace of colour anywhere, except the pedicels which are tinged with 
pale green; sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; petals obovate-lanceolate; lip 
obovate oblong, ciliolate, three-lobed, the lateral lobes enclosing the column. 
DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS, Wallich, Lindley’s Genera and Species of 
Orchidaceous Plants, p. 79. Paaton’s Flower Garden, i., t. 27. Lemaire’s Jardin 
Fleuriste, t. 68. Botanical Magazine, t. 4663. Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous 
Plants, part iii, p. 81. Williams, Orchid Album, ix., t. 396; Orchid Grower's 
Manual, 7th edition, p. 365, 
DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS ALBUM, Rolfe, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 3rd_ series, Vi., 
1889, p. 95. Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 366. 
DENDROBIUM TRANSPARENS Souvenir D’ALEC, Journal of Horticulture, xxv., 1892, 
P (3, L160; 
Although Dendrobium transparens has been in cultivation since 1852, and 
frequent importations have arrived in this country, no albino of this chaste and 
beautiful species was recorded until the subject of our plate flowered in the 
collection of Hamar Bass, Esq., Byrkley, Burton-on-Trent. Mr. James Hamilton, 
under whose able management so many fine specimens of Orchids thrive and 
flourish, has obligingly communicated the following particulars regarding _ its 
introduction. In 1888 a number of plants of D. lituiflorum Freemanii were 
purchased by him; on flowering, half of the pseudobulbs in one pot proved to be 
the white form of D. transparens, and it was exhibited by him at a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, in the Drill Hall, Westminster, under the name of 
C. transparens Souvenir d’ Alec, in memory of Mr. Hamar Bass’ son, who had 
died that year. A glance at our illustration will show that the flowers are of the 
purest white, without a trace of colour anywhere except on the pedicels, which are 
slightly tinged with pale green. The flowers also appear to be rather smaller than 
those of the type, but this is amply compensated by the greater number of flowers 
produced by each pseudobulb. 
