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DENDROBIUM Kingianum. 
Captain King’s Dendrobium. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcuipacex. $ MALAXEX—DENDROBIDE, Veg. King- 
dom. p. 151. ined. 
DENDROBIUM. Supra, vol. 15. fol. 1291. 
Sect. DESMOTRICHUM, (Blume Bijdragen, vol. 1. p. 829.) Pseudobulbi e 
rhizomate articulato nati. Labellum per axin lamellatum (an semper ?) 
D. (Desmotrichum) Kingianum (Bidwill MSS. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1844. 
misc. 18) ; pseudobulbis ovatis in collum longum extensis apice bifoliis, 
foliis ovalibus emarginatis, pedunculo terminali 2-3-floro foliis quali, 
sepalis ovatis, mento emarginato, petalis obovatis apiculatis duplo bre- 
vioribus, labelli trilobi cuneati pubescentis laciniis lateralibus acutis 
intermedia paulo longiore transverse rhombeä angulis lateralibus rotun- 
datis apiculi acuto, axi elevatà trilineatà apice tridentatà. 
This curious epiphyte was bought by the Messrs. Lod- 
diges at the sale of Mr. Bidwill’s New Holland Plants, two 
or three years since. It has pseudo-bulbs between four and 
five inches long, tapered from an ovate base into a very long 
and narrow neck, on thetop of which stand two oblong emargi- 
nate dark-green rather wavy leaves. Between these is a flower- 
stalk having two or three pink flowers gaily spotted with 
crimson in the inside. On some of the offsets the number of 
leaves is four, but the prevailing number is two. 
Among the genera of Orchids proposed by Dr. Blume in 
his Bijdragen was one called Desmotrichum, consisting of 
caulescent epiphytes with “root-shaped jointed bulbiferous 
stems," or rhizomes, leathery leaves growing on the bulbs, 
and fascicled, or solitary or somewhat racemose flowers spring- 
ing out from the base of the leaves. This character was 
accompanied by a description of flowers which hardly distin- 
guished the genus from Dendrobium ; nor did the figure of 
two of the species, given in the same learned author's Tabel- 
len shew any sufficient peculiarity to cut the genus off from 
