Tas. 4619. 
DENDROBIUM cucuMERINUM. 
Cucumber Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4352.) 
DENDROBIUM cucumerinum; nanum intricatum cespitosum, ramis brevissimis 
articulatis cylindraceis monophyllis, foliis oblongis teretibus seriatim tuber- 
culatis, pedunculis brevissimis 3-(5-)floris, sepalis petalisque linearibus 
acuminatis obtusis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus triangularibus intermedio 
ovato crispato lamellis 5 (3) undulatis in medio, clinandrio denticulato. 
Lindl. 
DENDROBIUM cucumerinum. M‘Leay, in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1842. Mise. 63. Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. 1843. ¢. 37. 
Exactly as our specimen of this curious plant was, by the 
kindness of Capt. Philip King, R.N., received by us from Aus- 
tralia, we have represented it, growing from the same branch of 
a tree that it was imported upon in a good flowering state. 
The flowers, though large in proportion to the plant, are far 
from showy. ‘The remarkable feature of the plant is the close 
resemblance the leaves (as Dr. Lindley is inclined to consider 
them) rather than pseudo-bulbs, bear to a collection of little 
tuberculated cucumbers or rather girkins; if they are pseudo-bulbs, 
then this plant bears no real leaves. ‘That they are not pseudo- 
bulbs seems the more probable, from the fact that the peduncles 
do not spring from any portion of them. Our drawing was made 
in March 1851, in the Orchideous House of the Kew Gardens. 
Descr. Epiphytal. Stem branched, creeping and running 
prostrate over the trunks or branches of trees, about as thick as 
a small goose-quill, flexuose, jointed, striated. Hoots short, thick, 
white, wrinkled. Leaves oblong, terete, two inches long, obtuse 
at both ends, ofa dark somewhat glaucous green, embossed with 
fleshy tubercles arranged in longitudinal lines. Lowers three 
to five, white or cream-colour, streaked with purple, borne in ra- 
cemes which arise from articulations of the stem. Pedunele short, 
with very minute purple éracteas. Sepals and petals nearly 
DECEMBER Ist, 1851. 
