Tas. 4993. 
DENDROBIUM crepipatum. 
Slippered Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuIpE#Z.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) 
DenprosivmM crepidatum ; caulibus elongatis erectis teretibus striatis, foliis ob- 
longis acutis subcoriaceis, floribus geminis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, petalis 
orbiculari-oblongis, labello cordiformi-rotundato integro subsinuato obtuso 
retusove lateribus erectis intus pubescente venoso basi utrinque plicato, 
cornu brevi obtuso. 
DenDRosium crepidatum. Lindl. in Paxton’s Fl. Gard. v. 1; Gleanings, n. 99. 
S.95 (woodcut of flower only). 
This is a very lovely plant, recently (April 1857) communi- 
cated to us in a fine flowering state by Mr. Parker, of the Nur- 
sery, Hornsey. It is a native of India, probably of Assam or 
Khasya Hills, in Eastern Bengal. Dr. Lindley, in naming and 
defining it, as he has done in the work above quoted, takes the _ 
opportunity of mentioning its affinity with D. Prerardi and its 
allies; but it has a firmer texture in the sepals, petals, and la- 
bellum than any of these. He has since also alluded to a great 
resemblance with D. cretaceum (see our Tab. 4686), and like it. 
we find the labellum in our plant to be emarginate or retuse at 
the point; but the flowers are much larger and more deeply 
tinged with pink and orange-yellow, wanting the cold chalky ap- 
pearance of that species: the ovaries and pedicels too are longer 
and red, It first bloomed with Mr. Holford in 1850. - 
Desor. Sfems six to eight inches to a foot and more long, firm, 
suberect, ade striated, branching only at the very base, jointed, 
with the remains of a sheathing scale at the joints. Leaves few, 
and only upon the young and flowerless branches. FJowers large, — - 
white, ined with blush, orange-yellow in the centre of the hp, 
arising from the joints of the naked (leafless) stems, generally in 
JULY Ist, 1857. 
