Tas. 5766. 
DENDROBIUM CRASSINODE. ; 
Thick-knotted Dendrobe. 
Nat. Ord. OrcuipEa:.—GyYNANDRIA MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4755.) 
Denprogium crassinode ; caulibus pallidis robustis creberrime nodosis leviter 
sulcatis, nodis globosis internodiis duplo latioribus, floribus ad nodos 
solitariis v. 2-nis, pedicellis basi bracteis scariosis vaginatis, sepalis 
lineari-oblongis subacutis albis apice roseis petalis consimilibus sed 
latioribus, labello ovato-rotundato breviter unguiculato superne tenuiter 
velutino albo apice roseo disco flavo, mento brevissimo. 
Denprogium crassinode, Benson et Rchb. fil. in Gard. Chron. 1869, p. 164. 
One of the most remarkable Dendrobes hitherto discovered, 
of which an excellent sketch was sent to Sir W. Hooker by 
Mr. Parish in 1859, and another to myself by Col. Benson 
early in 1868, and which was shortly followed by living 
plants from the latter gentleman, both to Messrs. Veitch and 
to the Royal Gardens, that flowered simultaneously in January 
of the present year. 
Mr. Parish’s specimens were procured in the Siamese 
province of Kiong-koung ; Col. Benson’s are from the Arrakan 
mountains, at an elevation of 2500 feet. The drawings of 
both differ a very little from the cultivated specimens, Mr. 
Parish’s in having a purple base to the claw of the lip, and 
purple edges to the wings of the column; Col. Benson’s 
in having a deep purple column. The latter gentleman finds 
as many as twenty-two flowers upon one stem. As a species 
D. crassinode approaches in habit to D. nodatum, Rehb. (Tab. 
_ nost. 5470) and in flower to D. Bensonie nob. (Tab. 5679), 
but is abundantly distinct from both in the stems. 
Descr. Forming large tufted leafless masses. Stems pen- 
dulous, a span to two feet long, formed throughout of swollen 
internodes, in the form of depressed spheres one inch in 
APRIL Ist, 1869. 
