ee a eR ee I ee Pe man EO ee ey 
_ Among the many valuable plants which, in the month of 
April last, I had the gratification of seeing at the rich Botanic 
Garden at Liverpool, under the superintendance of my kind 
and valued friends the Messrs SHEPHERD, none interested me 
more than that which I have figured in the accompanying 
plate. It was cultivated, along with many other choice tropi- 
cal orchideous plants, with a degree of success which I have 
never before witnessed in this charming family, and this effect- 
’ ed by no very peculiar mode of treatment. ‘The grand secret 
seemed to be in placing them near the light, and in supplying 
them with a considerable degree of heat and plenty of water: 
to which I may add, that those which had long and rather 
_ trailing stems, were slightly attached to the back wall, whence 
they appeared to derive a degree of moisture and of nourish- 
ment which was useful to them. 
This is the second * species of this beautiful genus which 
- Mr SHeErHeERrp is so fortunate as to have had in blossom ; and 
the individual was, as in the first instance, received from Dr 
Watutiicu of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, being probably a 
native of woods in that neighbourhood. In the general struc- 
ture of its flower, the Dendrobium fimbriatum bears consider- 
_ able affinity with D. Pierardi ; but the color of this i is wholly 
different, being entirely of a deep and bright fulvous orange 
hue. The lip is very short, scarcely forming a tube, most ele- 
gantly fimbriated at its margins, and the two internal leaflets 
of the perianth are -_ ciliated. a : 
Fig. 1. Flowering stem. Fig. 2. Sterile stem, natural size. Fig. 3. Back 
view of a flower. Fig 4. Column of fructification, with the spur, and a 
portion of the Germen. Fig. 5. Column of fructification, with the An- 
_ ther-case separating from the top of the column, but adhering by its fi- 
lament. Fig. 6. Pollen-masses. Fig. 7. Portion of the fimbrize.—All 
more or less magnified. : : 
* The first is the D. Pierardi, figured at t. 9. of the 1st volume of thie work. 
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