130 CXLVNI. ORCHIDES. (J. D. Hooker) [Dendrobium. 
triangular acute, mentum urceolate, base rounded, lip triangular bees 
truncate, apex formed of the spreading acute side lobes which are ei 
than the very short broad sessile caruncled apiculate midlobe, colum 
with 2 spurs at the base. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Rungbee, alt. 3000 ft., Clarke; Darjeeling, alt. 7000 ft., 
Gamble NE 
Stems 4-8 in., often curved or subflexuose, internodes very obscure. eel 
2-3 in., many-nerved. Flowers i in. long and broad, greenish ; pedicels as im zi 
bracts scarious ; column short and broad ; anther short.—The name bolbifloru 
: it 
attached by Falconer to a drawing of this plant in Hort. Bot. Cale., but no locality 
is given. 
79. D. aduncum, Wall. in Bot. Reg. 1842, Misc. 62, 1940, K 
stems slender pendulous, leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers on the te d 
stems in short racemes, bracts obtuse, dorsal sepal ovate soul Pr r 
rather broader, mentum very large urceolate as long as, the laws ort, 
‘acuminate lateral sepals, lip small cymbiform cuspidate ciliate, Pl Man. 
disk villous, column bearded in front. Bot. Mag. t.6784; Veste 
Dendrob. 14; Walp. Ann. vi. 295. Jenkins 
Sixxim HIMALAYA, alt. 7000 ft., Pantling. BmoTAN, Lister. ASSAM, Jem» 
&c.—DıstRIB. China. ^ in. broad, 
Stems 1-2 ft. Leaves 2-3 in., thin, acute or obtuse. Flowers UA segments 
translucent, rose-pink ; peduncle clothed with membranous scales ; penan D. herco- 
recurved; tip of column crenate; anther purple, papillose.—The Chinese, this with 
glossum, Reichb. f. in Hamb. Gartenzeit. xlii. 558, resembles a form o 
more acute sepals and petals, and deeper rose-cold. flowers. 
Sect. X. PEDiLONIUM (see p. 711). 
l 
80. D. secundum, Wall. Cat. 1996; stem stout, racemes en) 
peduncled secund dense-fld., bracts small membranous, dorsal pice sepa 
obtuse, petals narrower linear-oblong, mentum as long as the Subacute, 
or longer, lip spathulately oblanceolate cymbiform and entre, Gen. § 
claw saccate, disk with a semilunate transverse ridge. m FI. Exot. 
Sp. Orchid. 81; in Bot. Reg. t. 1291 and 1844, Mise. 65; Reichb. P. rri 
i. 269; Bot. Mag. t. 4359; De Vriese Illust. t.6; Veitch Man. 
72. Pedilonium secundum, Blume Bijd. 322. DISTRIB. 
MARTABAN, Wallich. Tenasserim, Griffith, Helfer. PENaxG, V allich, ^ 
Sumatra, Java, Cochin China. Y 
Stem 10-24 in., pendulous, sometimes 3 in. diam., grooved. Leaves va in., de- 
2-4 by 1-2 in., oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse or retuse. Racemes ed to white, 
curved, rachis very stout ; flowers hardly expand, and vary from deen 33 
with yellow on the lip.—Var. nivea, Reichb, f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, i. 79% 
fless 
81. D. cornutum, Hook. f. ; stem long slender, flowers on thi ilong 
stems 2-3 on a very short peduncle, bracts minute, dorsal sep cylindric 
obtuse 5-nerved, petals narrower elliptic or oblanceolate, mentum e very 
stout 2-3 times as long as the broadly ovate lateral sepals, hp mall fleshy 
narrowly spathulate, claw long with involute margins and a $ 
tubercle near the base. 
PERAK, Scortechini ; Summit of Gunong Batu Pateh, Wray. late 
Stems 12-18 in. ; internodes Lin. Leaves 4 by 4 in., linear-lanceola t 
membranous, strict; sheath 1 in., dotted with black. Flowers 1 pel 
like a bow, bright rose-cold.; pedicel 3 in., capillary; column short, 
ery variable, 
acuminate, 
arc 
tips erent 
