: Sas Tas. 5249. 
DENDROBIUM .LinGua@ForME. 
Linguiform Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. ORcHIDEH.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4352.) 
DENDROBIUM lingueforme ; caulibus teretibus repentibus, foliis sessilibus obo- 
vatis alte trisulcatis, racemis erectis multifloris, sepalis petalisque linearibus 
acuminatissimis, labelli abbreviati lobo undulato tricarinato. Lindi. 
DENDROBIUM lingueforme. Sw. Act. Holm. 1809, 2. 247. Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 11. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p.138. Brown, Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. p. 333. Lindl. 
Gen. et Sp. Orchid. p. 85. 
A singular and we believe very rare Orchideous plant, first 
discovered by Sir J. Banks in the Pacific Islands, during Cap- 
tain Cook’s celebrated voyage ; afterwards found by Mr. Brown 
in New Holland, at Port Jackson: and lately fine growing 
plants were sent to us from Moreton Bay by Mr. Hill. Culti- 
vators of Orchideous plants will not despise this because it does 
not produce the gay and showy flowers which characterize so 
many of the family. ‘Ihe leaves are very curious, thick, and 
fleshy, and almost resemble pseudobulbs, while the racemes of 
flowers are elegant and graceful, and, save the labellum, of an 
ivory-white colour. It flowers with us in the winter months, 
and ought to succeed well in an ordinary greenhouse, seeing 
that the species is a native of Port Jackson, and found, accord- 
ing to Sir James Smith, “ upon rocks on the sea-shore.” That 
author, who figures it from a dry specimen, further remarks, 
“that the pretty delicate flowers, and the singularity of the 
stem and leaves, entitle it to a place in our conservatories, if a — 
stone could be brought with the roots, and their mossy clothing — 
undisturbed.” We find it, however, succeed well on a piece of 
wood, 
Drscr. The green rounded stem, about as thick as a swan’s 
may lst, 1861. 
