Tas. 6007. 
DENDROBIUM cHrysocrepts. 
Native of Moulmein, 
Nat, Ord. Orcnipe#.—Tribe Denpropic® §$MALAXIDER, 
Genus Denprosiun, Swartz ; (Lindl, Gen. & Sp. Orchid. p, 74), 
Denprosium chrysocrepis ; caulibus fasciculatis inferne tenuibus compressis 
superne dilatatis internodiis } poll. latis compressis paucifoliis, foliis 
anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis coriaceo-carnosis, pedunculis 
ad nodos caulium vetustorum lateralibus 1-floris, bracteis minutis, flori- 
bus aureis labello subochraceo, sepalis apiculatis dorsali petalisque 
consimilibus obovatis, lateralibus oblique ovatis, mento recto obtuso, 
labello calceiformi villoso apice retuso antice infra orem fisso, ore sub- 
quadrato marginibus utrinque lobulatis incurvis, intus pilis crispato- 
incurvis rubris infra orem onusto, columna brevissima antice villosa, ~ 
Denprosium chrysocrepis, Parish and Reichb, 7. mss. 
A very curious species of Dendrobe, discovered by the 
indefatigable Mr. Parish in Moulmein, and communicated by 
him to the Royal Gardens in 1871, where it flowered. in 
March of the present year, and was examined by Professor 
Reichenbach, who has obligingly communicated the following 
note upon it, together with a diagnosis: “ Near D. euphlebium, 
Reichb. f. (Journ. Proc. Linn. Soc., 1859, p. 7), but widely — 
differing in the flattened stem and form of the lip. The re- 
markable character of the stem developes in this species as 
much as it does in D. crassinode (Tab. nost. 5766), but at a 
later period. The young stem is homomorphous, with wide 
leaf-sheaths ; as the stem gets older, the upper leaf-bearing 
internodes flatten, and lateral shoots appear, which root im- 
mediately.” ; 
Descr. Stems tufted, six to ten inches long, slender, rigidly 
flexuous, obscurely compressed below, with the internodes an 
inch long, contracted in the middle, and surmounted by a _ 
short truncate brown sheath ; above, the stem dilates into a 
DECEMBER Ist, 1872. 
