Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, A779 
Scape from the base of the bulb, simple, naked, slender 
smooth, from three to five inches long. Raceme, or flower- 
bearing part longer than the scape, round, Flowers numer- 
ous, middling sized, white, scattered over every part of thera- 
- ceme. Bractes solitary, ensiform, one-flowered. Petals, the 
exterior three lanceolate-conic, acute, one in each side and one 
above; the inner two linear, oblong, minute, and ciliate. Lip 
linear, obtuse, recurved, shorter than the three exterior petals, 
and attached by a slender isthmus, to the lower edge of the 
base of the exterior two, colour an uniform brownish orange; 
Column and other parts, as in the genus, 
3. D. pumilum. R. 
Parasitic. eaves two from the apex of each of the tur- 
binate bulbs. Peduncles solitary between the pair of leaves, 
one-flowered. 
This is the smallest species I have yet met with, it grows on 
trees in the forests of Reseagone where it blossoms during 
the rains. 
Parasitic, stemless, or rather, the stems bulbiform ; leaves 
from three to four, rising from each bulb, lanceolar, even, 
smooth and rather fleshy. Scapes from the base of the bulb; 
raceme villous, bearing many erect flowers ; the inner two pe- 
tals linear. Lip recurved, with somewhat three-lobed lamina, 
Found indigenous on trees in the forests of Chittagong, 
from thence introduced into the Botanic garden where it blos- 
soms in February. 
Root, consisting of many ies slender, tortuous fibres, 
which adhere to the parent tree. Stem no other than the 
ovate oblong, smooth, green, somewhat compressed, solid 
bulbs, which give support to the leaves; they multiply by 
short suckers from the base of those of the former years, and 
are generally from half an inch, to an inch asunder. Leaves 
about four, from and around the apex of each bulb, narrow 
lanceolar, smooth, and fleshy, from four to eight inches long, 
and one or one and a half broad. Petioles short, channelled, 
