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DENDROBIUM cucuUatum. 



Lady JBanks's Dendrobium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANTiRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orcuidr£. Jussieu gen. 64. Brovmprod. 1. 309. Sect. 

 V. Monandne. Anthera terminaJis, mobilis, operculiformis, decidua. 

 Poilinis massee cereaceae, iaeves. Parasitica, pauctB Terrestres. Brown 

 loc. cit. 330. 



DENDROBIUM. Labellum ecalcaratum, articulatum cum apice pro- 

 cesses unguiformis, cujus lateribus petala antica adnata, calcar emulantia. 

 MasstB poUinis 4, parallelee. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. % 5. 212. 



Obs. Genus f<man dividendum. ^ecies enim labello pottico C^oribu$ 

 resupinatis secund. Anct.) aliguantulvm differunt structura anthera. Ad 

 hanc phalimgem fere omnea species Novcb HoUandia pertinent, in quibiu 

 racemi oppositifoHi, nee axillares vel veri terminates sed instar ramontm ex 

 opposite latere articuli caulini orti. Brown prod. 1. 332. 



D. cueullatnm, caulibus pendulis, foliis bifariis lanceolatis acumiaatis, pe- 

 dunculis oppositifoliis subbifloris, labello indiviso circumscriptione onto 

 basi cucuUato. Brown MSSl 



We were favoured with this curious and handsome 

 plant from the collection of Lady Banks at Springrove; 

 where- it is cultivated, like the other tropical parasites of 

 that establishment, by being suspended in a wicker basket 

 from the rafters of the hothouse; and, we believe, has 

 never been known to have flowered any where else in this 



country. 



It is said to be in several collections, and to have been 

 generally conceived to be Dendrobium Pierardi of the un- 

 edited part of Roxburgh's Flora Indica ; and which, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Brown, to whom, as in so many instances, 

 we are indebted for all we have to say of the subject, it is 

 possible it may really be; but finding by both figure and de- 

 scription, the flowering stems of that species represented as 

 leafless, the lamina of the labellum of an obovate form, and 

 leaves as emarginate, while in the present plant the flower- 

 ing stems are in full leaf, its labellum of an ovate outline, 

 and its leaves taper-pointed, he has deemed it safer to re- 

 gard the pt«sent sample as belonging to a distinct species. 



