macula basi rubro-aurantiaca ;” which hardly accords with the 
flowers of the Dendrobium before us. Our plant, therefore, we 
wish to be considered the D. pulchellum of the gardens ; doubt- 
fully of Roxburgh and Lindley. If the plant of these latter 
authors, it is a native of the rocks and trees in the forest of 
the Silhet hills,” according to Roxburgh. 
Descr. Our plants are small, epiphytal. Stems, or leafy 
pseudobulbs, growing several from one point, more or less pen- 
dent, striated, scarcely a span long, subterete, jointed, throwing 
out radicles from different points. Leaves alternate, scarcely 
two inches long, oblong, acute, fleshy, patent, sheathing the stem 
at the base. Flowers, in our specimen solitary from the joints - 
of the stem, generally from those portions where the leaves have 
fallen. Pedicels short, gradually passing into the clavate inferior 
ovary, with small appressed dracts at the base. Sepals spreading, 
equal, oblong, subacute, faintly striated, pale purple. Petals 
much larger than the sepals, oval, obtuse, striated, purple-lilac. 
Labellum \arge, orbicular, concave, villous, beautifully and finely 
fringed at the margin; clawed at the base, and the claw bears 
two incurved small lobes: colour of the lip purple at the edge ; 
the disc orange, white between the orange disc and the purple 
_ Margin. 
Fig. 1. Column. 2. Pollen-masses. 3. Labellum :—magnified. 
