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This lovely species is abundantly distinguished by its slender stems, 
leafless, and clouded with dusky brown when in blossom ; and also by its 
delicate white flowers, the tips of whose segments are remarkably blunt 
and tinged with delicate violet. 
Dr. Wallich remarks in his Mss. that its fragrance is exquisite, not un- 
like that of Olea fragrans. 
22. Denprosium Pierardi. Roxb. 
D. caulibus pendulis glabris, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acutis, floribus gemi- 
natis racemum spurium formantibus, sepalis acuminatis membranaceis, 
petalis sepalo supremo majoribus acuminatis, labello cucullato dilatato 
subtruncato pubescente ciliato. 
Dendrobium cucullatum. R. Brown in Bot. Reg. t. 548. 
Dendrobium Pierardi. Rorb.! Hort. Beng. Hooker Exotic Flora t. 9. Wall. Cat. no. 
2007. 
Hab. in India Orientali calidiore, presertim circa Chittagong et ad ostia 
Gangis, sepits Mangiferee adnascens, Roxb. Mss. (hab. s. e Museo Anglo- 
Indico, et v. v. cult.) 
Flores diaphani, dilute rosei, inodori. Labellum luteum, basi rubens, callo 
transverso supra unguem, lateribus purpureo-venosis. 
The flowers vary in size according to the health of the individual; they 
also are occasionally seen with the sepals and petals more acuminate than 
usual. A variety with stems spotted with purple is known in our hot 
houses. 
There can be no doubt that the plant figured in the Exotic Flora as D. 
Pierardi, that cultivated in the Botanic Garden at Calcutta under the same 
name, and the D. cucullatum of the Botanical Register, are all one and 
the same species. The latter exhibits D. Pierardi in the state in which it 
commonly appears in our stoves; but whether the flowers appear from 
among the leaves, or occupy the old leafless stems, depends not upon any 
specific difference, but upon the state of health of particular individuals. 
Dr, Roxburgh says that the leaves of his D. Pierardi are emarginate and 
the flowers yellow. It is not impossible that he has confounded D. Pie- 
rardi, D. transparens and D. heterocapum, all which, although slightly 
different, are undoubtedly distinct. 
23. DenpRosium transparens. Wallich. Cat. no. 2008. 
D. caulibus pendulis teretibus, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis apice 
obliquis, floribus geminatis, sepalis acuminatis, petalis obtusis sepalo 
supremo majoribus, labello oblongo undulato ciliolato obtuso intüs levis- 
sim? pubescente, 
Hab. in Napalia, Wallich. (hab. s. sp. e Museo "Anglo- Indico.) 
Flores dilut? rosei, labello concolore. 
Very like D. Pierardi, from which it is distinguished by its leaves being 
9nger and emarginate at the apex, by the petals being obtuse and the la- 
‘liom much less hairy, and pink not yellow. The stems are also far 
Shorter. 
?4. DExpnoniUM nobile. i : 
D. caulibus teretibus pendulis, foliis oblongis obliqué emarginatis obtusis, 
ribus geminatis, sepalis ovalibus, petalis conformibus majoribus, la- 
bello subrotundo cucullato cordato. ini aus 
