748 CXLVIII. ORCHIDEA. (J. D. Hooker)  — [ Dendrobium. 
t. 1765; stems short stout decumbent, leaves ovate-lanceolate acuminate, 
flowers 2-nate on a leaf-opposed peduncle golden yellow, disk of lip 
red, sepals oblong obtuse, petals larger quite entire, mentum stout, np with 
a convolute claw and orbicular concave blade pubescent, margins revolate 
erose. Veitch Man. Dendrob.66; Walp. Ann. vi. 287. D. Cambridgeanum, 
Paat. Mag. vi. t. 265; Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 171; Bot. Mag. 
t. 4450. 
Kuasia Mrs., Giifith, kc. CnirTAGONG, Wallich. 
Stems 6-9 in., internodes contracted in the middle ; sheaths inflated. ren 
4-5 in., base very unequal, subcordate, twisted. Flowers 3 in. diam. ; pedicel wi 
ovary 1-1} in. 
146. D. chryseum, Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1888, i. 233 ; stems slender 
erect, leaves few linear-oblong, tip notched, flowers on the leafless Wu 
solitary or in short sheathed racemes orange-yellow, bracts large sheathing, 
sepals oblong-lanceolate acuminate, petals broader, mentum conical, P 
broadly clawed orbicular from a cuneate base pubescent subfimbriate. 
Buoran Himataya (Ie. in Herb. Calcutt.). Assam (Hort. Veitch). SYLBEh 
Melville (Ic. Jerdon in Herb. Kew). 1 tn diam ; 
Stems 1-2 ft., rather slender. Leaves 3~4, subterminal. Flowers 13 $m. CUP! 
bracts j-$ in., sheathing ; lip with sometimes faint crimson streaks at the base- 
147. D. normale, Fale. in Ann. Nat. Hist. iii. 196 (name only) ; : 
terete, leaves linear-lanceolate acuminate, flowers 2-3 subracemose p 
lateral peduncle with tubular basal sheaths golden yellow, sepala AA 
ovate acute entire, petals and lip all equal and similar larger N, hs i iii. 
sepals broadly ovate acute serrulate, column monstrous. - G riff. Nom’ 
255; le. Pl. Asiat. t. 284; Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 10. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal, alt. 3-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson. Peduacle 
Stems 12-16 in., suleate; internodes 1-1} in. Leaves 4-5 in., thin. jn. diam. ; 
or rachis 1-1j in., pedicels 4 ir., bracts small membranous ; flowers 1$ ik form 
sepals and petals suberect.—It can hardly be but that this evidently monstro 
is a state of some better known plant, but 1 fail to detect its origin. 
ttt Stem clavate. 
S Flowers racemose or 1-2 in form of D. aggregatum. Peta 
lamellatum broader than the sepals. 
ls in all but 
148. D. densiflorum, Wall. Cat. 2090; stems 2A flowers many 
lip large funnel-shaped hippocrepiform retuse in front pubescen Reg. 
Lindl. in Wall. Pl. As. Ra» i 34 t 40; Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 90; is Ba 3418 
t. 1828; in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 7; Paxt. Mag. v. 121; Bot. ^el. Orchid. 
D. 
Ser. 9, t. 21 (var.) ; Orchid. Alb. vi. t. 303; Veitch Man. Dendro Horti. 
clavatum, Roxb, FI. Ind.iii.481. D. thyrsiflorum, Reichb. f. 5. Mar 
xxii. t. 207; Gartenfl. t. 1021; Flor. Mag. N. S. t. 449; i t. 46 
Dendrob. 80, with fig.; Gard. Chron. 1877, i. 653, fig. 105; Lindema * 
Epidendrum Dumunsattei, Herb. Ham. 
