This is a high-resolution digital download of Plate 4153 from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. The original illustration was hand-colored in the 1800s. This listing includes both the botanical image and its accompanying description tab.

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bas olging diy boy DENDROBIUM MONILIFORME. nothoyong mg site plging Necklace-stemmed Dendrobium. dal ode Still of nived Nat. Ord. ORCHIDEE.-GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. DENDROBIUM. Sw. (Vide supra TAB. 4013.) Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 74. DENDROBIUM moniliforme; caulibus erectis clavatis ramosis foliosis inter- nodiis demum tumidis, foliis distichis oblongis obtusis oblique emargi- natis, floribus ex articulis supremis caulium geminatis folio longioribus, sepalis oblongis acutis petalisque ovatis striatis, labello ovato reflexo obscure trilobo basi attenuato margine serrulato, disco elevato pubes- cente. DENDROBIUM moniliforme. Sw. Act. Holm. 1800, p. 245. Willd. Sp. Pl. p. 136. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 8. p. 738. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1314. Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 83. LIMODORUM moniliforme. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1352. FU RAN. Kampf. Amen. Acad. t. 865. A native, it is said, of China and Japan, and first introduced to Europe through the instrumentality of the Horticultural Society. The plant from which our figure was taken was sent by Dr. Wallich to the Royal Gardens of Kew. It pro- duced its truly handsome blossoms in November, 1844, and again in February, 1845, each time the flowers continuing long in perfection. It is indeed one of the most lovely of our Epiphytes. The specific name is not at first very apparent; but is considered to be derived from the tumid internodes of the stem in age, giving the appearance of a necklace, some traces of which may be observed in our figure.

Botanical Description Stem erect, scarcely a foot high, branched and

rooting; when young terete and striated; when old strongly articulated, losing the leaves, and then deeply furrowed, and swollen at the internodes, the articulations partly sheathed by the withered bases of the leaves. Flowers in pairs from the articulations, or from the axils of the leaves, but the flowering stems are frequently destitute of leaves. Germen very long, Thrifty Whiskers slender, colored, pedunculiform. Perianth large, handsome, varied with purple and white. Sepals and petals spreading, white, the upper half purple-blush: the former oblong acute; the latter ovate, all of them striated. Lip small, in proportion to the rest of the flower, white tipped with deep purple, and having two purple spots on the disk. Column short, very decurrent, the lip articulated at the end of the prolonged base.

Figures

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