Tas. 4755. 
DENDROBIUM cymBIDIOoIDEs. 
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Cymbidium-like Dendrobium. 
Nat. Ord. ORcHIDACE®.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala membranacea, erecta vel patentia, lateralibus majoribus 
obliquis cum basi producta column connatis. Petala sepalo supremo seepius 
majora, nunc minora, semper membranacea. Ladellum cum pede columnz arti- 
culatum vel connatum, semper sessile, indivisum vel trilobum, seepius membra- 
naceum, nunc appendiculatum, Colwmna semiteres, basi longe producta. An- — 
thera bipollicaris. Pollinia 4, per paria collateralia.—Herbee epiphyte, nunc caules- 
centes, nunc rhizomate repente pseudobulbifero. Folia plana, seepius venosa. Flores 
solitarii fasciculati v. racemosi, speciosi. Lindl. 
Denprosium cymbidioides ; pseudobulbis oblongo-ovatis 4-5-gonis, foliis binis 
oblongis retusis pseudobulbos vix excedentibus, scapo terminali 5-7-floro, 
sepalis petalis lineari-oblongis obtusis equalibus patentibus ochraceis, la-~ _ 
belli disco basi abrupte calloso-lineato, lobo medio ovato tumido. ; 
Denprosium cymbidioides. Lindl. Gen. et Spec. Orchid. p. 17. 
Desmorricnum cymbidiodes. Blume, Bijdr. p. 355. 
A plant very little known either in our gardens or herbaria, of 
which we received living specimens from Messrs. Rollison, of the 
Tooting Nursery, without any name. It proves to be the Des- 
motrichum ecymbidioides of Blume, native of the lofty wooded 
mountains of Gede and Salak in Java, a genus of that author, 
of which all the species have, we think with propriety, by Dr. 
Lindley, been incorporated with or restored to Dendrobium. Dr. 
Lindley had indeed seen no specimens ; but drawings of this were 
sent to him by Professor Reinwardt, and of a closely allied species, 
Desmotrichum triflorum, “scarcely differing from this, but in its 
uniformly tetragonal pseudo-bulbs, and cream-coloured flowers 
always appearing in threes.” 
Duscr. Pseudo-bulbs ovate or oblong-ovate, angled, with four 
or five angles, and clustered upon a short creeping caudex, gene- 
rally more or less sheathed with long membranaceous scales, 
bearing at the summit two erecto-patent, oblong, obtuse or rather 
DECEMBER Ist, 1853. 
