135. ORCHIDACIJE: EPIDENDRES. 11 
(Hancock, 118!) ; mountain gulches, 6000-7000 ft. (Hancock, 
584. Herb. Kew. 
Tropical Himalaya and Khas a. 
9. Dendrobium Gibsoni, Part. Mag. Bot. v. p. 169, with 
plate? ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 746. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, S.E. mountains (A. Henry, 10613!) 
Herb. Kew. 
Northern India. 
The specimen is in fruit, bit so far as it goes is not dis- 
tinguishable from the Indian plant. 
10. Dendrobium hainanense, Rolfe, in Kew Bulletin (1896), 
p. 193. 
Hainan: Lingmen (4. Henry! Ford, 272!); Hongting 
(Ford, 473!). Herb. Kew. 
A species belonging to Lindley’s section Onychium, and closely 
allied to the Philippine D. acievlare, Lindl., which, however, has 
longer internodes, more slender and straighter leaves, a shorter 
mentum, and a shorter and narrower lip. 
11. Dendrobium ($ Eudendrcbium) Hancockii, Rolfe, n. sp. 
Caules graciles, parce ramosi, ;-1 ped. alti, 12-3 lin. lati. Folia 
linearia, obtusa, ineequaliter bidentata, 2-3 poll. longa, 2-3 lin. 
lata. Racemi axillares, breves, biflori v. uniflori. Bractee ovatz, 
acute, 1 lin. longs. Pedicelli 6 lin. longi. Sepala et petala 
subzqualia, oblonga, subobtusa, v. apiculata, 10-11 lin. longa. 
Labellum trilobum, breviter et late unguiculatum, 9 lin. longum, 
8 lin. latum, facie velutino-pubescens ; lobi laterales rotundati, 
obtusi; lobum intermedium reniformi-orbiculare, subobtusum, 
5-6 lin. latum. Columna lata, 2 lin. longa. Mentum breviter 
saccatum, obtusum, 12-2 lin. longum. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, on rocks at 6000-7000 ft. (Hancock, 
581!). Flowers yellow, strongly fragrant of honey. Herb. 
Kew. 
A very distinct species, most nearly allied to D. velutinum, 
Rolfe (from Upper Burma), in floral details, but very different 
in its slender, branching babit. 
{Dendrobium hercoglossum, Reichb. f. (Gard. Chron. (1886) ii. 
p. 487; Hamb. Gartenz. xli. p. 487), is stated by Sir Joseph 
Hooker, in the ‘Flora of British India,’ vol. v. p. 730, to be 
Chinese. The statement is based on a specimen in the Kew 
Herbarium labelled “Canton, Mr. Ford," but on referring to 
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