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Plate XXXV. 



DENDROBIUM MACROPHYLLUM 



U niftcrophyllum. BoUmical Etgister 1839, misc. no, 46, 



Although die Orchidaceous plant* of the Philippine* have not proved handsome in many cuct, 

 yet it must he confessed that this yields in magnificence of appearance to no specie* thai hove yet 

 been discovered. 



In the specimen now represented the dower* were nine indie* in circumference and tin v will 

 probably be much larger; and a pair of them is produced from Opposite every leaf, except the 

 lowermost, upon all the drooping branches of the stout and numerous sterna In this retpect it 

 resemble* the well-known Oendrobia macrostachyuui, Pierardi. cueullatum. and pulchellum ; but it 

 is far handsomer than even the finest of them. Its flower* indeed are more like those of D. nobile, 

 but they are purple all over, the leaves are full four inches long by two in breadth, and tin* Stems are 

 pendulous not erect, 



The specie* was sent from Manilla by Cuming, and flowered in die possession of the Mem 

 Loddige*, 



•At the base of the lip there is a ihree*lobcd callosity, which lie* across the channel that leads 

 from the apex to the unguis. It is worthy of the especial consideration of Botanists that this callosity 

 is absent in D. caruleseens and nobile, two specie* to which IX mncrophyllum approaches very 

 nearly in many respects ; for we learn from that fact that the alienee or presence of such projection* 

 is not of generic importance, as it has been supposed to be. It i* also to be observed that the hairy 

 ridge winch runs down the middle of the lip in many allied species is here altogether missing. 







