THE ORCHID REVIEW. 17 



DENDROBIUM SPECTABILE. 

 The annexed illustration shows a very fine example of the remarkable 

 Dendrobium spectabile from the collection of H. F. Simonds, Esq., Wood- 

 thorpe, Beckenham (gr. Mr. Day), which was exhibited at a meeting of the 

 J^oyal Horticultural Society on January 15th, 1901. The plant bore five 

 racemes and an aggregate of thirty-five flowers, a number which is likely to 

 Ibe largely exceeded when it becomes thoroughly established. The history 

 •of the species was given in detail in our pages in 1896, when Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence .received a plant from a correspondent in the Solomon Islands. 



A few years later Messrs. F. Sander & Co. succeeded in making an importa- 

 tion of it, and it flowered almost simultaneously in several collections in 

 December, 1899, as recorded at page 13 of our eighth volume. On Decem- 

 ber 19th a plant bearing a raceme of four flowers was exhibited at a meet- 

 ing of the R. H. S. by Major Joicey, Sunningdale Park, and was awarded 

 a First-class Certificate. The plant here illustrated flowered about a year 

 later, and shows marked progress as the result of another season's culture. 

 The photograph was taken and kindly sent by Mr. H. J. Chapman. It is 

 .remarkably distinct, and requires the same treatment as D. Phalaenopsis. 



