Dendrobium.] CXLVIII. ORCHIDER. (J. D. Hooker.) 741 
large, flowers 1-3 on a short peduncle from the leafless stems rose-purple 
or white, lip with two maroon blotches, sepals oblong acuminate, petals 
broadly elliptic, mentum short obtuse, lip shortly clawed convolute with a 
small ovate obtuse tomentose and ciliate recurved limb. Bot. Mag. t. 5488 ; 
Jennings Orchid. &. 39; Veitch Man. Dendrob. 68. 
UPPER Burma, Berkeley. TENASSERIM, Parish. . . 
Stems 6-12 in. ; internodes 3-8 in., when old contracted in the middle. Leaves 
3-5 in., coriaceous. Flowers 14-2 in. diam.; pedicels 1 in.: bracts im; limb of 
lip small compared with the tube; claw with a pit and transverse ridge. Column 
white, anther purple. 
122. D. rhodopterygium, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1875, 1. 684 ; 
stems terete decurved, leaves linear-oblong, bracts minute, flowers 1-3-nate 
on a short peduncle from the leafless stems rose-purple, lip with pale border, 
sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, petals ovate-lanceo'ate, lip with a cylindric 
convolute base streaked with purple and an orbicular erosely ciliate mouth 
rough or hispid on the disk. Veitch Man. Dendrob.71. D. polyphlebium, 
Reichb. f. Lc. 1887, i, 702; Warner Orchid. Alb. vii. t. 299. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Boxall, Berkeley. 
abit, leaves and inflorescence of D. Parishii, but bracts smaller, flowers much 
larger, 3 inches in diameter, of a paler rose-purple, often mottled with white, and 
lip with an orbicular mouth broadly or narrowly bordered with pale yellow, no 
maroon blotches, the disk not downy but rough, column white, anther purple.— 
Reichenbach suggests polyphlebium being a hybrid between Pierardi and rhodoptery- 
gium. 
123. D. Scortechini, Hook. f.; stems long, leaves oblong-lanceolate 
obliquely notched, flowers solitary or 2-nate on the leafing stems waxy 
white, lip purple, peduncle stout, sepals lanceolate acuminate, petals 
broadly elliptic acute erose, mentum large broadly conical obtuse. lip 
rose-purple with a large ventricose tube and small acute limb tomen- 
tose towards the recurved fimbriate margin on both surfaces and closely 
veined, 
PERAK, Scortechini, . . 
Stems a foot and more, as thick as a goose-quill ; internodes 1 in. Leaves 3 in., 
coriaceous, Flowers on the leafless upper part of the leafing stems, 3-33 in. diam. ; 
pedicels with ovary lj in.; bracts small; sepals clawed, sometimes rose-pink, lip 
Fs deeper cold. ; column short, “anther dark purple with a 3-lobed top," Ic. 
ortechini, 
B? Internodes swollen at the top (slightly in D. gratiosissimum). 
124. D. 
Pendulum, Ror). Fl. Ind. iii. 484; stems stout decurved, 
nodes subg] 7 
obose, leaves linear-lanceolate, flowers 1-3-nate on the leafless 
lie ms stoutly pedicelled white or tips purple, lip with yellow disk, sepals 
k Dear-oblong subacute, petals much broader, mentum obscure, lip orbicular 
abeordate pubescent ciliolate. D. crassinode, Bens. 4 Reichb. f. in Gard. 
Pinia 909, 164; 1870, 417; 1875, 93 (var. albiflora); 1876, 567 (var. 
fan ana); Bot. Mag. t. 5766; Warn. Orchid. Alb. iv. t. 152; 1 eiteh 
Geng x 1705. 31, with fig. 2D. polyanthum, Wall. Cat. 2009; ? Lindl. 
Sel GP Orchid. 81 ; in Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 57. D. Wardianum, Warner 
chid, Ser. i t. 19. D. mel hthalmum, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 
1869, 164 1870417. ^ melanop 
