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Dendrobium.] CXLVI. ORCHIDEE. (J. D. Hooker.) ` 727 
Stem 12-18 in., as thick as a crow-quill, internodes 1-13 in. „Leaves 2-3 by 4 in. 
Flowers } in. long, nearly straight; column with rounded tips. 
- 6. D. bambusefolium, Parish & Reichb. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
Xxx. 149; leaves linear-lanceolate unequally 2-fid, flowers 1-3 on a leaf- 
Opposed tubercle, pedicel slender, dorsal sepal oblong-lanceolate, petals 
linear-lanceolate acute, mentum as long as the ovate acute lateral sepals 
cylindric-conie obtuse, lip narrowly spathulate entire or oblong membranous 
veined, tip rounded or emarginate, sides involute. 
TENASSERIM, Parish. 
; Stem 2 ft., stouter than in D. conostalix, polished. Leaves 5-6 by } in., sheaths 
minutely granulate. Flowers 4 in. long, green or white with purple on lip, which is 
described by Parish as “ strangely different ox one and the same specimen.”—Habit 
and foliage of D. gemellum, of which it may be a var. Parish figures a more oblong 
lip, notched at the end, unlike that which I examined; he informs me that the lip is 
_ Very variable. 
07. D. hemoglossum, Thwaites Enum. 429; habit, size and 
characters of D. bambusefolium, but pedicels shorter, flowers smaller, petals 
ovate lanceolate, and mentum very short depressed conical, lip tongue- 
Shaped acute undulate. 
MALABAR, Jerdon. CEYLON; at Matele and the Dolosbagey district, alt. 3000 ft., 
Gardner, Thwaites. 
. So like D. bambusefolium that without the flowers the specimens seem to be 
iseparable. 
68. D. Cathcartii, Mook. f.; leaves linear-lanceolate unequally 2-fid, 
flowers in leaf-opposed pairs vellow with purple on the lip, pedicel slender, 
orsal sepal ovate-lanceolate ‘acute, petals similar but narrower, mentum 
stout incurved shorter than the lanceolate lateral sepals, lip elliptic-oblong 
acute quite entire. 
Stkxmm HIMALAYA (Ic. Cathcart and Ic. Hort. Bot. Calc.). . 
Stem 12-18 in., internodes 1 in. Leaves 4-6 by 3-3 in. Flowers lin. long.— 
very distinct species with golden flowers, three times as large as D. bambusafolium 
According to the drawings. 
69. D. &emellum, Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 81; in Bot. Reg. 1840, 
Mise, 192; 1844, Misc. 62; leaves non? leh ooolate unequally 2-fid, flowers 2 
ee leaf-opposed tubercle, “lip oval acute, tip subcrisped with 3 incon- 
1cuous serrulate ridges, 3-lobed.” Walp. Ann..vi. 286. Pedilonium biflorum, 
wine Bijd. 399, 
SINGAPORE, Cuming (Hort. Loddiges), MALACCA ; at Bronang, Griffith. — 
nly seen in Herb Lindie ; the two } ecimons exactly resemble bamóbusafolium, 
„o are flowerless ; a drawing accompanies them of an oblong-lanceolate acute lip, 
3, 
713 serralate ridges (not at all spathulate as in bambusefolíum). 
f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
nder acuminate, flowers 
petals narrowly linear 
side lobes of lip 
ny 1a Pachyglossum, Parish $ Reichb. 
Solitary ^ Ing sheaths hispid, leaves very sle 
acumin, or geminate, sepals triangular-ovate, 
Ver nate, mentum equalling the sepals recurved obtuse, 
: small, midlobe minute retuse, disk 2-keeled. 
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S SSERIM; at Moulmein, Parish. Leaves 2-8 by zy in. Sepale 
tem 6-8 in, narro 
: ‘ wed at the base and apex. . 
laked with brown. Lip white, with brown streaks, — Reichenbach, from whom 
t ide h 
he description is taken, says, ** Very like D. attenuatum, Lindl. 
