Tas. 4898. 
DENDROBIUM satetseum. 
Double-spurred Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIpDE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4755.) 
DenpDRogium (§ Dendrocoryne) digibdum ; caulibus elongatis apice 3—5-phyllis, 
racemis erectis elongatis dissitifloris, petalis subrotundis sepalis duplo lati- 
oribus, labelli trilobi lobis rotundatis medio cristato basi gibboso, sepalis 
lateralibus in calcar productis. Lindl. 
Denprosivm bilobum. Part. Fl. Garden, v. 3. p. 25. n. 491. fig. 245 (wood- 
cut only). 
A species of Dendrobium with very handsome flowers; but 
the long, slender, bare pseudo-bulbous stems, and few and nar- 
row sparse leaves, are great drawbacks to the general beauty of 
the plant. We are indebted for the specimen here figured to 
Mr. C. Loddiges, in November, 1855; he had received the 
plant from Dr. Thomson, who found it on Mount Adolphus, 
Torres’ Straits, on the north-east coast of New Holland. In 
consequence of this tropical locality, it requires greater heat in 
the cultivation than most Australian Orchidee. A drawing, made 
on the spot, and dried specimens show that from ten to twelve 
flowers are sometimes produced upon one peduncle. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs stem-like, long, slender, fusiform, a span 
or more in length, the younger ones clothed with green, sheath- 
ing, foliaceous scales, and at the extremity bearing two to four 
or five narrow, linear-oblong, subacuminated, very obscurely 
striated Jeaves. The o/der stems or pseudo-bulbs are swollen 
at the very base, and are sheathed throughout the length with 
pale, brownish, membranaceous, striated scales, and have no 
leaves. From these older stems the peduncle arises from near 
the apex, and is about as long as the stem, erect, in the present 
instance, two- to ten- or twelve-flowered. Flowers deep lilac. 
Sepals ovate, spreading ; two lateral ones terminating below in 
a short, blunt, curved spur; above this spur is a gibbosity, oc- 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1856. 
