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Tas. 4711. 
DENDROBIUM Teretirouium. 
Round-leaved Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. Orncu1prEm™.—GyYNANDRIA MoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4352.) 
DENDROBIUM feretifolium ; caulibus repentibus, foliis filiformibus teretibus, pe- 
rianthiis foliolis elongato-linearibus apice angustatis, labello tricarinato lobo 
intermedio lineari-lanceolato acuminato crispato. Br. 
Denprosivm teretifolium. Br. Prodr. Nov. Holl. p. 333. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. 
Orchid. p. 91. 
Although defined and published by Mr. Brown since 1810, 
this singular and well-marked species of Dendrobium does not 
appear to be anywhere figured, nor indeed anywhere recorded as 
being cultivated in England, except in the miscellaneous portion 
of Dr. Lindley’s ‘ Botanical Register,’ the volume for 1839, du- 
ring which year it flowered with Messrs. Loddiges. It is a native 
of the vicinity of Port Jackson, New South Wales, and was lately 
sent to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Mr. Moore, of the Sydney 
Botanic Garden. Its leaves are long and terete, and the flowers, 
from the long, straggling, slender petals, and curved labellum, 
have almost as much the appearance of an insect as of a flower. 
Six other species of Dendrobium are recorded by Mr. Brown as 
natives of New Holland, and Mr. Allan Cunningham added seven 
others in an enumeration given in the ‘ Botanical Register,’ above: 
quoted, but of which three are marked doubtful as to genus, the 
flowers not having been seen, and one it is suggested may be a 
Polystachya. Cultivated on a piece of wood suspended from the 
beam of a cool stove, the present species flowered vigorously with 
us in December, 1852. 
Descr. Stems, for they can hardly be considered pseudo- 
bulbs, clustered (creeping, according to Mr. Brown), sinuated, 
branched, brown, throwing out large fleshy-white sinuous fibres : 
the dranches terminate in long, pendent, curved, terete, tapermg, 
APRIL Ist, 1853. 
