leaves, where the parenchyma is a little shrivelled, and where the 
edge is somewhat sinuated, scarcely dentate. /Yowers several, 
collected into a terminal umbel, without bracteas, or with only a 
pair of small leaves at the base. Pedicels short, single-flowered. 
Calye longer than the pedicels, between cylindrical and infundi- 
buliform, lax (much wider than the tube of the corolla), its /imd 
erecto-patent, of five equal acute rather small lobes. Corolla 
thrice as long as the calyx, club-shaped: that is, with the tube 
long and slender, gradually enlarged and widened upwards, la- 
terally compressed, contracted at the five-lobed and somewhat 
two-lipped limb, lower lobe longer and reflexed: colour of the 
corolla bright crimson, the lobes each marked with black lines. 
Stamens didynamous, much exserted : the anthers jomed in pairs. 
Style also much exserted. Stigma much dilated. 
Fig. 1. Calyx and pistil. 2. Pistil and hypogynons cup :-—magnified, 
Erratum.—It should have been said under Tab. 4886, Dendrobium Mac- 
Carthia, that the figure and description were communicated by Mr. Thwaites, 
= has recently sent living plants to Kew, which have not yet had time to 
wer. | . 
