THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
May, 1845. 
DENDROBIUM MACRANTHUM. 
WITH AN ENGRAVING. 
[For the opportunity of figuring this splendid species we are 
indebted to Messrs. Rollison of Tooting Nursery; and for the 
description and management we refer to our old and respected 
correspondent’s subjoined letter. This plant was originally called 
by Dr. Lindley macrophyllum; this name, as will be seen from 
the description, was so far objectionable as to be altered some 
time after, and in the Botanic Magazine it is called Macranthum; 
as it is the largest flowered species yet known, we have con¬ 
tinued it.— Ed.] 
A fine figure of this splendid plant is given in the present 
number of the Florist Journal, and I am sure that every lover 
of this beautiful tribe will be happy to have a few hints respect¬ 
ing its cultivation, and also a slight description of its general 
habit: although this has been done in an early number of this 
work, still I think that a description of the plants should 
attend the figure. The stems or pseudo-bulbs are pendant, 
thick, and rounded, the leaves alternately placed on the pseudo¬ 
bulb ; they are broadly ovate at the base, and tapering towards 
the apex, of a bright green, and beautifully veined ; the flowers 
are produced on the stem opposite the leaves, coming in twos 
and fours, but never I believe producing more in one bunch; 
the sepals and petals are broadly lancet-shaped, with a very long 
acumen or point; the sepals are of a stronger texture than the 
petals, and of a darker colour, the petals being transparent, and 
of a delicate pink; the lip is acuminate and recurved at the 
apex, and is covered with a mossy pubescence which gives to 
the flower a pretty appearance. The colour of the base of the 
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