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DENDRÓBIUM* secundum. 
One-sided Dendrobium. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuıpex. $ Malaxidee Lindl. * Dendrobiee. 
DENDROBIUM. — Supra, vol. 7. fol. 548. 
$ Caules undique foliosi, cylindracei, sepè penduli. 
D. secundum; caulibus pendulis, foliis oblongis apice obliquè retusis, 
racemis lateralibus terminalibusque secundis, sepalis ovatis : lateralibus 
basi in cornu longo obtuso incurvo connatis, petalis supremo pauló 
minoribus, labello integerrimo acuto apice tumido.—Lindley, Genera and 
Species of Orchideous Plants, part 1, ined. 
D. secundum. Wall. in cat. herb. ind. 
Pedilonum secundum. Blume Bijdrag. p. 322. 
For an opportunity of presenting the public with a figure of this 
fine species, we have to thank Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Street Nur- 
sery, by whom a plant in flower was communicated in July last. 
It had been collected at Rajah Bassa, in Sumatra, by William 
M‘Killigin, Esq. 3 E 
It appears, from Dr. Wallich's drawings, to be a most lovely 
species in its native places of growth, forming long pe stems, 
which throw ont an Ae ad of one-sided racemes of purple flowers 
5 or 6 inches long. The specimen now represented blossomed 
imperfectly, as its stems had been allowed fo remain in an erect, 
instead of pendent position. The habit of this, and many other 
Dendrobriums, being to hang down from the trees on which they 
grow, it is impossible to cultivate them with any success unless they 
are suspended in the air in pots, or pr managed that they 
can shoot freely in the way that is natural to them. 
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If we are right in Dr. Blume's synonym, which we can scarcely 
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* So called from Jð, a tree, and Sw, to live; the species all 
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