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DENDROBIUM PIEKARDI, roxb. var. LATIFOLIUM. 
Orchidece § Malaxece-JDendrohics. — Gynandria-Monandria. 
Charact. Gener. — Perigonii membranacei, foliola exteriora erecta v. 
patentia, lateralia majora, obliqua, cum pede columnae connata; interiora 
conformia, exteriore postico majora v. minora. Lahellum cum pede colum- 
nae articulatum aut connatum, sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, saepius 
appendiculatum. Columna semiteres, basi longe producta. Anther a bilo- 
cularis. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia. 
Herhae indicae, epipJiytae, eaulescentes, v. rhizomate repente pseudobid- 
bifero; foliis planis saepius venosis, jiorihus soUtariis, fasciculatis v. 
racemosis, majusculis, speciosis. 
Charact. Specif. — " D. {Eudendrohium § transparentid) caulibus pendu- 
lis, labello spathulato ungue involute." Lindl. 
Dendrohium Pierardi, Roxb. Mss. — Carey Hort Bengb. — Lodd. Bot. Cab 
t. 750.— LiNDL. in Bot. Reg. t. 2584. 
Var. latifolium, Hort. — Caulibus robustioribus, foliis latioribus (flores 
ex icone nobis tantum noti.) 
Our figure represents a new variety of one of tbe earliest introduced 
species of Dendrohium^ but one always considered among tbe most beautiful 
on account of the delicacy of tbe texture and color of its flowers. The type 
of this variety has existed in some of the rare collections in England, since 
1815, a time when the cultivation of epiphytes had scarcely commenced in 
Europe. It was first figured in the Botanical Cabinet, and later (evidently 
in an imperfect manner) in the- Botanical Register. The species inhabits 
the district of Chittagony, and many other points of the Delta of the 
Ganges, from whence Mr. Pierard first introduced it into the botanic garden 
at Calcutta. It belongs to that group of the section Eudendrohium, which 
Dr. Lindley calls transparentia, in allusion to the partial transparence of 
the flowers. The only fault which can be found with these graceful plants 
is, that they generally flower upon stalks entirely deprived of leaves ; for 
although the above-cited figures of Dendrohium Pierardi, represent flowers 
and leaves at the same time on one stalk ; we can easily see that the artist, 
more accommodating than nature, has been the author of this forced arrange- 
ment. As with all allied species, the flowers come in pairs in the axils of 
the fallen leaves. They are of a delicate rose, tinted with flesh-color, with 
a lip, clear yellow in the enlarged part, lightly washed with violet in the 
ground, and striped with carmine on the edge. 
The form here represented, is what is called in gardens, D. Pierardi 
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