Tab. 5825. 

 DENDROBIUM lasioglossum. 



Hairy-lipped Bendrobe. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^e. Gynandria Monandria. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide Supra Tab. 4755.) 



Dendrobium lasioglossum; caulibus fasciculatis gracilibus foliosis, inter- 

 nodiis elongatis teretiusculis, foliis planis lanceolatis acuminatis, flori- 

 bus albis ad nodos sub 3-nis in pedunculo brevi aggregatis, bracteis 

 minutis ovatis obtusis, sepalis late ovatis subacutis, petalis paulo brevi- 

 oribus obtusis, labelli limbo inftmdibuliformi in calcar brevera truncation 

 2-lobum producto, lobis lateralibus rotundatis erosis purpureo lineolatis, 

 intermedio subquadrato undulato disco villoso-flavo. 



Dendrobium lasioglossum, Reichb.f. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 682. 



Discovered by Col. Benson in the forests of Birraa, and 

 communicated by him to Messrs. Veitch and the Royal 

 Gardens, where, and in the rich collection of Wentworth 

 Buller, Esq., it flowered in the month of February, 1868. 

 Reichenbach states that it is allied to B. Ruckeri, Lindl., a 

 Philippine Island plant, which differs chiefly in the yellow 

 colour of the flowers. As a species, however, it seems very 

 distinct from that, and from any other. 



Bescr. Glabrous. Stems tufted, slender, ten to eighteen 

 inches long, pendulous ; internodes two to three inches long, 

 terete, a quarter to one-third inch diameter, scarcely swollen 

 in the middle, upper and lowermost the most slender. Leaves 

 three to five inches long, alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, flat, 

 bright green, nerves obscure. Flowers in very short two to 

 three-flowered racemes at the nodes ; bracts one-eighth of an 

 inch long, ovate, obtuse, appressed. Peduncle* ilexuous, 

 curved, half an inch long, greenish -white. Ovary short, 

 green. Perianth one and a half inches diameter, spreading, all 

 march 1st, 1870. 



