DENDROBIUM FARMER!!. 
Class. 
GYNANDRIA. 
(Mr. Farmer's Dendrobe. 
Natural Order. 
ORCH1DACEJ3. 
(Orchids, Veg. King.) 
Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
Generic Character. — SepaZ/membranaceous, erect, 
or spreading; lateral ones largest, connate with the 
column at the base. Petals often much larger than the 
sepals, sometimes smaller, always membranaceous. 
Labellum jointed or connate with the foot of the 
column, always sessile, undivided or three-lobed, com- 
monly membranaceous, sometimes appendiculate. 
Column semi-cylindrical, much prolonged at the base. 
Anthers two-celled. Pollen masses four. 
Specific Character.— Plant an Epiphyte." Pseudo- 
bulb angular. Stems jointed, swelling at the joints, 
pendulous, leafy towards the summit. Leaves oblong, 
acute, nervose. Racemes lateral, many-flowered ; 
longer than the leaves. Bracteas situated at the base 
of the pedicels, plicate, recurved. Sepals spreading, 
ovate, obtuse, of a rich and delicate rose colour. Petals 
larger, of a pale straw colour, ciliated. Labellum broad, 
almost inclining to a square, clawed, ciliated, blunt, of 
a pale straw colour, varied with a deep yellow blotch. 
Authorities and Synonymes.— T)en.&Tobixim,Swarlz. 
The specimen of this beautiful species, from which our drawing was prepared, was 
imported by W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., through Dr. McClelland, of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden, who sent it in October, 1847. It was named in the invoice, and labelled as 
Dendrobium densiflorum, which in habit and appearance the plant very much 
resembles ; but the stems are more angular, and the flower-scape is less densely 
laden with bloom ; the flowers too are altogether different. 
Mr. Carson, the intelligent gardener at Cheam, exhibited the plant when in 
bloom, at the Horticultural Society's Room, Regent Street, in March last, when 
it was awarded a Banksian Medal. 
It does not appear to require any other treatment than that given to Indian 
Dendrobes generally. Mr. Carson grows it in chopped sphagnum moss and peaty 
heath mould, with broken potsherds, and an abundance of drainage. It is by no 
means a robust grower, but when in flower is quite a gem, and a great acquisition to 
this lovely genus. 
Our drawing was made in March, 1848, from a specimen which flowered in the 
stove of W. F. G. Farmer, Esq., at Nonsuch Park, Cheam, Surrey. 
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