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DENDROBIUM cretaceum. 
Chalk-white Dendrobe. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEÆ. (ORCHIDS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 187.) 
DENDROBIUM.—Supra passim. 
$ EuDENDROBIUM. Stems slender ; leaves thin and flat ; flowers in pairs, 
or threes, opposite the leaves. (Grastidium, Blume.) 
D. cretaceum ; folis lanceolatis apice oblique emarginatis obtusiusculis, 
floribus solitariis (7), sepalis lineari-lanceolatis patentissimis obtusius- 
culis, labello subrotundo indiviso cucullato fimbriato-dentato utrinque 
pubescente basi foveat et obsoletě trilamellato, mento brevi obtuso. 
Several plants of this new Dendrobe have appeared in 
gardens during the last summer, in consequence of its having 
been sold by Messrs. Veitch, who received it among Mr. 
T. Lobbs' Moulmein collections, and who communicated it 
to us in July last. 
It is a very distinct species, remarkable for the dull 
chalky whiteness of its flowers, which are, nevertheless, 
neatly pencilled with crimson on the lip; this is owing to 
the whole surface of the lip, inside and outside, being covered 
with a short close white fur. It appears to possess the 
additional peculiarity of bearing its flowers singly, not in 
pairs; at least the wild specimens which were commu- 
nicated to us by the late Mr. Griffith, from Mergui and 
the Khasiya hills, are in that state, as well as the cultivated 
plant. 
Fig. l. represents the inside of the lip, near the base of 
which is a small honey pore, and above the pore three obscure 
elevated lines. 
