THE ORCHID REVIEW. 41 
DENDROBIUM AUREUM. 
THE annexed figure shows a remarkably fine specimen of Dendrobium 
aureum, grown by Mr. R. Roberts, gardener to T. Baxter, Esq., Oakfield, 
Morecambe, and to which a Cultural Certificate was awarded by the Man- 
chester and North of England Orchid Society on January 11th last. The 
plant is in a 14-inch pan, and has between seventy and eighty pseudobulbs, of 
which some twenty-five are in bloom, and they bear an aggregate of 377 
flowers. Such an example of this beautiful species we have not previously 
met with, and we congratulate Mr. Roberts on his success. One of 
the racemes, bearing four flowers, is also sent, showing it to be a good 
Fic 6. DENDROBIUM AUREUM. 
form of this rather variable species. It is not asa rule so well grown as 
D. nobile, or the hybrids between the two species, but is worth all the 
attention that can be given to it, being most distinct in colour, exquisitely 
marked on the lip, and deliciously fragrant. It is one of the most widely dis- 
tributed of Dendrobiums, being found in the southern parts of Ceylon, the 
Madras presidency, various localities in Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, the Khasia 
Hills and Upper Burma, also in the Philippine Islands and North Celebes. 
In certain localities in Northern India it grows in company with D. nobile, 
but does not attain so high an attitude; in fact its Sikkim habitat is 
