47 
O32. 
PL. DLXXIV. 
DENDROBIUM SUAVISSIMUM rcup. F. 
VERY FRAGRANT DENDROBIUM. 
DENDROBIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 13. 
‘Dendrobium suavissimum. Affine D. chrysotoxo; planta humilior et validior majori numero speciminum 
D. chrysotoxi, Pseudobulbi aggregati fusiformes bene stipitati, costis ad novem obtusangulis, vulgo triphylli. Folia 
cuneato oblonga acuta, more illorum Dendrobii palpebrae et D. Griffithiani, laud magna, telae validae. Pedunculus 
racemosus, laxiflorus. Bracteae minutae. Flores longe pedicellati, substantiae valde firmae. Sepala ligulata obtusa, 
mento brevi conico oblique retusiusculo. Petala cuneato oblonga obtuse acutiuscula.. Labellum ab ungue brevi hastato 
dilatatum oblongo transversum retusiusculum, limbo ac disco lamellis bipectinato ciliatis microscopicis tectum; late- 
ribus energetice supra columnam volutis, Columna trigona, apice tridentata, dentibus lateralibus obtuse brevissimeque 
semifalcatis. Basis columnae foveata. Anthera acuto conica. Flores pulchre aurei. Labellum disco macula reniformi, 
in medio sinu postice obtusangulo prominula, ac striis quibusdam subparallelis angustis. Omnes hae signaturae obscuris- 
sime atropurpureae. Callus transversus lineari subsemilunaris ante unguem. : 
Dendrobium suavissimum RcuB. F. in Gard. Chron., 1874, 406; 1876, I, 756. Xen. Orch., II, p. 2, f. 202. 
The Garden, 1878, t. 116. 
Dendrobium chrysotoxum var. suavissimum, VEITCH, Man. of Orch. Pl., Il, p. 30. 
et Co. from the higher regions of Burma, that is to say close to the 
1.443) regions traversed by the Lower Irawaddy and Saluen rivers. 
It was described in the same year by ReicHENBACH, in the Xenia, where the 
celebrated German orchidographist quoted a note adressed to him in a letter 
by Mr. Day, a distinguished orchidist of that period. After the first flowering 
of the plant in his houses, Mr. Day described it by saying that for the purposes 
of comparison it would be necessary to take a long inflorescence of D. ochreatum 
(D. Cambridgeanum) and place it on a plant of D. Griffithianum. 
Comparisons should never be pushed to extremes, and if we recall this 
one made by a most competent connoisseur, it is because it presents an 
example of the analogies that may be easily established between several species 
of yellow-flowered Dendrobiums, which present among themselves many apparent 
similarities, but at the same time differences sufficiently distinct. 
D. suavissimum, for example, bears some resemblance to D. chrysotoxum, 
and as may be seen from the references quoted above, it has even been ranked as 
a variety of it; but it is distinguished by its habitat, period of flowering, habit 
and colour. It is a native of a region somewhat distant from that in which 
D. chrysotoxum is met with, and situated more to the north, and it flowers in 
June, while the other flowers in March. Besides, it has pseudo-bulbs shorter 
con 
