Tas. 4527. 
DENDROBIUM Kurveranvm. 
Captain King’s Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEM.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.) 
Denprosium Kingianum; pseudo-bulbis ovatis in collum longum extensis apice 
bi- (quadri-) foliis, foliis ovalibus emarginatis, pedunculo terminali 2-3- 
(pluri-) floro, sepalis ovatis mento emarginato, petalis obovatis apiculatis duplo 
minoribus, labelli trilobi cuneati pubescentis laciniis lateralibus acutis inter- 
media paulo longiore transverse rhombea, angulis lateralibus rotundatis 
apiculi acutis, axi elevata trilineata apice tridentata. Lindl. 
Denprostum Kingianum. Bidwill, in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844. Misc. 18; et in 
Bot. Reg. v.31. t. 61. 
The Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted to our excellent 
friend Mr. Bidwill for specimens of this rare Dendrobium, which 
he detected in Australia, we presume in the interior, and which 
were sent to Europe in 1844. Dr. Lindley refers it to a group 
of Dendrobium, corresponding to the genus Desmotrichum of 
Blume, especially characterized as having “root-shaped, jointed, 
bulbiferous stems,” but which he does not consider to be pos- 
sessed of characters sufficient to constitute a genus. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, jointed, oblong, attenuated 
upwards into a long stem-like neck, bearing two to four oblong 
subcoriaceous recurved eaves, emarginate at the apex. From 
the centre of these leaves the peduncle arises, about as long as the 
pseudo-bulb and leaves, and bearing from three to six flowers — 
in one specimen. Ovary clavate, pedunculiform below. Sepals 
purple, ovate, the two lateral ones connate and decurrent with 
the base of the column into a long blunt or retuse spur, pale- — 
coloured at the back, yellow at the apex. Petals much smaller — 
than the sepals, of the same colour. Lip three-lobed, attenuated : 
at the base and articulated on the apex of the spur, white 
streaked with purple and having three yellow lamina on the 
aveust Ist, 1850. 
