Plate 502 . 
DENDROBIUM SCHRCEDERII. 
We have to chronicle another addition to the numerous family 
of Bendrobium , so well suited for the purposes of exhibition, and 
have recourse to the extensive and varied collection of the 
Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, for our illustration. 
The family of Dendrobia furnishes some of our most 
beautiful, and at the same time most easily cultivated Orchids ; 
plants soon forming dense masses from which abundant flower- 
stems issue, so as to give an appearance of great gorgeousness 
to the houses in which they grow. What can be finer than 
the masses of Bendrobium nobile, that we continually see with 
our best orchid growers ? What more pure and ivory-like than 
B. eburneum ? or what more gorgeous than the orange masses 
of Bendrobium densiforum ? 
It is to the latter species that Bendrobium Schrcederii has most 
analogy ; indeed there are many varieties of densiforum, such 
as Albcduteum, which bear a very close resemblance to it. 
There are, however, features about it which shew clearly its dis- 
tinctness. 
There are various methods used for growing the allied species, 
some using pots, others pieces of peeled oak, and suspending 
the plants from the roof. We are informed by the Messrs. 
Veitch, by whose kindness we figure the plant, that they grow 
Bendrobium Schrcederii in this latter mode, at the cool end of their 
Cattleya house. When Dendrobids are grown in pots, they 
