146 CXLVI ORCHIDE®. (J. D. Hooker.) — [Dendrobium. 
Veitch Man. Dendrob. 24, with fig.; Lindenia iv. t. 183; Gattin 1883, 
t. 871; 1887, t. 183, 548 ; Orchidoph. 1881, t. 148. ? D. criniferum, indl. in 
Bot. Reg. 1844, Misc. 55; Walp. Ann. vi. 303. 
Burma, Berkeley. A " 
Stems 1-2 ft., narrowed below, sulcate, old subfusiform. Leaves 4-5 in., 5-7 
nerved. Raceme erect; sheaths short, lower not tubular; pedicels stout, ten 
(with the ovary); flowers 3 in. diam., often triandrous.— The leaves are stated m 
Veitch’s Manual to be persistent, but in the native specimens the flowers ym 
leafless stems.—Var. histrionica, Reichb. f. 1. c. 1888, i. 104; Veitch I. c. 25 Of 
more fusiform stems, smaller flowers with much shorter fimbriz on the lip or 2 nd 
Liudley's D. eriniferum, supposed, but erroneously, to be from Ceylon (an ea s 
credited with Orchids as natives, which were no doubt sent from 1ts Bot. Garden: 
there), nothing is known beyond the description, which differs from that of Brymé- 
rianum in the brancbed stem. 
138. D. moulmeinense, Parish mss.; stems slender, leaves (narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, Parish), flowers on the leafless stems lower eae 
upper 1-2 on a short peduncle, pedicels slender, bracts ovate concave liodie 
oblong-lanceolate acute, petals elliptic acute erose, mentum subcy le 
obtuse, lip large broader than long flabellately orbicular expanded sess! 
base cuneate pubescent above glabrous beneath fimbriate all round. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish. in. di 
Stems about as thick asa duck’s quill; internodes 1 in, Flowers 11-2 pens 
membranous ; rachis of 2—4-tld. raceme $ in., slender, base with a lunes otted 
bracts à in., thin ; sepals and petals pale yellow ?, lip primrose-yellow wi 
bars at the very shortly convolute base; column very short. 
SS Lip with the margin entire or erose (subjimbriate in D. Gibsoni). 
139. D. Gibsonii, Lindl. in Past, Mag. v. 169; Fl. Gard. j: i 
fig. 204; stems slender, leaves lanceolate acuminate, racemes T brown 
pendulous, basal sheaths tubular, flowers orange-yellow, lip with lip sub- 
spots, sepals suborbicular, petals broader entire, mentum short, i ase 
orbieular cochleate villous obtuse, margins everted subfimbriate, s. 
cuneate. Veitch Man. Dendrob. 47; Walp. Ann. vi. 293. D. fasea 
Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 8; Bot. Mag. t. 6226. 
- : BURMA, 
Sikkim HiwaLaya, J. D. H.; Assam, the Kuasta MTS. and 
common. 
Is 
; ; s smaller, pet? 
Near D. fimbriatum, but stems shorter and more slender, flowers 5197? 
not erose, lip broader, margins rather villous than fiibriate. 
24. 3, 1 
140. D. dixanthum, Reich). f. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 6745 a 
814; stems long slender, leaves linear-lanceolate, racemes On ubaen 
stems often whorled 2-5-fld., flowers golden yellow, sepals oblong from 
petals broader obtuse ciliolate, mentum subglobose, lip dilate ite 
2-auricled base flat puberulous ciliolate. Bot. Mag. t. 5504; Ve 
Dend rob. 39. 
TENASSERIM ; at Moulmein, Parish, &c. 
Stems 2—3 ft., smooth. Leaves 4-6 by 4 in., erect, caducous. 
each node; bracts minute ; peduncle and pedicels slender; flower 
darker tian the sepals, minutely barred with red at the base. 
HMI. D. clavatum, Wall. Cut. 2004; stems stout slightly 
ves linear-oblong obtuse, racemes on the leafless stems * nota large 
owers large ochreous yellow, lip paler with blood-red disk, br 
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Racemes 33 ip 
s 1} in. diam ; 
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