178 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
by Gibson, who had been sent to India by the Duke of Devonshire to 
collect Orchids. It was found hanging from trees at about 4,500 feet 
elevation, and being out of flower it was a question whether it was worth 
collecting. Some flowers, however, appeared on the way home, where it 
arrived in 1837, and the following spring it flowered well at Chatsworth, 
being figured in 1840 by Paxton (Mag. of Bot., VII, pp. 169, 170, with 
plate and woodcut), who dedicated it to the Duke of Devonshire. It was 
afterwards figured at Plate 4429 of the Botanical Magazine. Lindley called 
it the King of Dendrobiums (Bot. Reg., XXX., Misc., p. 48). Singularly 
enough this author afterwards made it a synonym of D. pulchellum, Roxb. 
(Journ. Linn. Soc., II., p- 12), and even Reichenbach called it D. pulchellum 
var. Devonianum (Walp. Ann., VI., p. 284), though in reality it is very 
distinct. D. pulchellum also includes two very distinct plants, whose 
history is given at page 173 of our last volume. 
D. Devonianum ranges from Bhotan, the Khasia and Naga Hills, 
Assam, and southwards to Tenasserim. The typical form has white flowers 
with amethyst purple tips, and two large orange-yellow blotches at the base 
of the beautifully fringed lip, but two or three varieties are known, including 
the albino candidulum, and one called rhodoneurum, in which the sepals and 
petals are veined with purple. They are very beautiful, and succeed under 
the treatmént usually given to other species of the deciduous group. 
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SACCOLABIUM MINIATUM. 
SoME curious mistakes have been made in recording the localities of various 
garden Orchids, and it now appears that the beautiful little Saccolabium 
miniatum has not escaped this misfortune. It was described nearly half-a- 
century ago as a native of Java (Lindl. Bot. Reg., 1847, sub t. 26), but no 
one has been able to confirm the record ; and many years later Reichenbach 
added a variety citrinum, a supposed native of the Philippines (Gard. Chrom-» 
1884, xxi., p. 542), which is equally doubtful. It is iriteresting to note that 
one of the plants recently sent to Kew by Dr. Watt, from the Naga Hills 
(east of Khasia), at 6,000 to 9,000 feet elevation, proves on flowering to be 
this species, and as until quite recently very little was known of the Flora 
of this district, there is little doubt that the habitat of the plant has now 
been discovered. The species was originally described as “a Java plant 
imported by Messrs. Veitch and flowered by both Mr. Rucker and Mr. C- 
B. Warner.” Dr. Lindley, however, added that it was not to be traced 
among Blume’s Javan plants, and afterwards Miquel was only able t? 
include it in the Javan Flora on the authority of Lindley. Messrs. Veitch 
state—“ Introduced by us from Java in 1846 through Thomas Lobb, but 
