' Tas. 4352. 
DENDROBIUM SECUNDUM. 
One-sided Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. Orcu1pE®2.—GyNnaNDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus majoribus 
obliquis cum basi producta columns connatis. Petala sepalo supremo sepius 
majora, nune minora, semper membranacea. Lade/lum cum pede columne arti- 
culatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum yel trilobum, seepius membra- 
naceum, nunc appendiculatum. Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producta. An- 
thera bilocularis.  Pollinia 4 per paria collateralia—Herbe epiphyte nunc 
caulescentes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudo-bulbifero, Folia plana, sepius venosa, 
Flores solitarii fasciculati vel racemosi, speciosi. Lindl. 
DENDROBIUM secundum ; caulibus pendulis, foliis oblongis apice oblique retusis, 
racemis lateralibus terminalibusque secundis, sepalis ovatis, lateralibus basi 
in cornu longo obtuso incurvo connatis, petalis supremo paulo minoribus, 
labello integerrimo acuto apice tumido, Lindi. 
Denprosium secundnm. Wall. Cat. n. 1996. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1291. Gen. 
et Sp. Orchid. p. 81. 
PEDILONUM secundum. Blume, Bijdrag. p. 322. 
The East Indian Orchideous plants have assuredly the pre- 
eminence over those of the New World, beautiful though many of 
the latter undoubtedly are. Nor is the present Dendrobium one 
of the least handsome among the former. ‘The leaves are copious, — 
but unfortunately not on the same stem with the flowers. Den- 
drobium Kuhlii (Bot. Reg. 1847, tab. 47) is a very nearly allied 
species. Both are inhabitants of the Malayan islands, and 
require the usual treatment of tropical Orchideous plants. — 
Descr. Stems pendulous, elongated, terete, copiously jointed ; 
the joints sheathed by the deeply striated base of the foliage. 
Leaves one to each joint, oblong, or ovato-oblong, acute or 
obliquely emarginate, costate and faintly striated, firm, coriaceous. 
Flowers copious in long spikes, of which one or two arise from 
the extremity of a leafless stem, all drooping and secund, not 
much unlike, at first sight, those of some Hedysarum, of a deep 
full rose-colour, paler and nearly white in parts. Cylye-sepals . | = 
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