( 4013 ) 



Dendrobium crumenatum. Sweet-smelling 

 club-stemmed dendrobium. 



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Class and Order. 

 Gynandria Monandria. 



( Nat. Ord. — Orchide^e. ) 



Generic Character 



Sepala membranacea, erecta, vel paten tia, lateral i bus 

 majoribus obliquis cum basi producta columns connatis. 

 Petala sepalo supremo saepius majora nunc minora, semper 

 membranacea. Labellum cum pede columna articulatum 

 vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, sspius 

 membranaceum, nunc appendiculatum. Columna semiteres, 

 basi longe producto. Anthera bilocularis. Pollinia 4, per 

 paria collateralia. — Herbae epiphytce, nunc caulescentes, 

 nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero. Folia plana, se- 

 ptus venosa. Flores solitarii, fasciculati vel racemosi, spe- 

 ciosi. Lindl. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Dendrobium crumenatum ; caulibus caespitosis erectis basi 

 incrassatis teretibus, foliis ovato-oblongis obtusis emar- 

 ginatis, racemo terminali (3-) multifloro, sepalis peta- 

 lisque ovatis acuminatis subundulatis conforinibus, 

 labello cucullato trilobo, lobis lateralibus truncatis 

 intermedio ovato acuto, disco lamellato. Lindl. 



Dendrobium crumenatum. Swartz, Act. Holm. 1800. p. 

 246. WiM. Sp. PL v. 4. p. 137. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 

 Orchid, p. 88. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. »\ 



Angrjscum crumenatum. Rumph. Herb. Amb. o. p. Wb. t. 



Onychium crumenatum. Blum. Bijdr. p. 326. 



A native of various islands in the Malay Archipelago, 

 first figured by Rumphius, and recommending itselt «» ™Jj 



