480 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Dendrobium, 
sheathing. Scapes generally solitary, from the base of the 
bulbs, spreading ; base embraced by a few sheaths, the rest 
downy. Raceme generally simple, which with the scape is 
about as long as the leaves and bulb, somewhat flexuose, 
downy, many-flowered, lowers remote, pedicelled, erect, 
of a middling size, yellow, inodorous. Bractes ensiform, one 
below each pedicel. Petals, the exterior one, sub-triangular- 
ly-lanceolate, the interior two linear-lanceolar. Lip recurved, 
with a small lobe on each side below the middle ; apex retuse 
with a point in the sinus. Pollen masses composed of twice 
two pair of minute, oval, compressed, yellow grains, Column 
half the length of the two inner petals. 
4. D. cruminatum. R. 
Parasitic, Stems simple, swelled, and angular near the 
base. Leaves bifarious, stem-clasping, linguiform. Flowers 
suspended near the apex of the stem. Lip three-lobed ; the da- 
teral lobe incurved into a tube ; Jamina roundish, acuminate. 
Angreecum nonum. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 104. t, 47. f. 2. 
A native of Amboyna, and from thence brought to the Bo- 
tanic garden at Calcutta by Mr. C. Smith. Flowering time, 
in Bengal, the rainy season. 
Root consisting of many, perennial, green, fleshy fibres, 
spreading over, and adhering firmly, to the parent tree. Stems 
several, sub-erect, swelled above the base and there oct- 
angular, from thence to the apex slender, round, tapering, 
gently invested in the sheaths of the leaves, or if they have 
_ fallen, marked with their annular cicatrices and a few slender 
bristles; the whole length from two to three feet. Leaves bifa- 
rious, sheathing, linguiform, entire, smooth, firm, and fleshy, 
veinless ; from two to four inches long, and about one broad. 
Flowers sessile, except the curved slender germ be consider- 
ed a peduncle, solitary from the last two, three or four leaf- 
less joints of the stem, large, pendulous, suspended on their 
curved, slender, filiform pedicel, faintly fragrant, Bractes 
three-fold, one-flowered, short, sheathing the base of the 
