Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA,. 481 
germ. Corol almost pure white, besprinkled with minute, 
pellucid dots, like the grains of fine loaf-sugar ; petals unila- 
teral, sub-lanceolate, the lower two longer, united to, and 
protruded with the column of fructification of the apex 
of the horn of the nectary. Lip occupying the under side, 
opposite to the petals, and like them sprinkled with the same 
pellucid specks; horn or pouch large, and conical; J/amina 
three-lobed, on the centre a yellow line runs the whole 
length; dateral lobes incurved ; terminal one nearly round, 
and pointed from the exterior portion of the margins being 
incurved ; all, particularly the last mentioned, are beautiful- 
ly marked with pink-coloured, curved, ramous veins, and the 
margins elegantly fringed. Column of the fructification near- 
ly half the length of the lip, on the apex rest two, very per- 
fect, yellow anthers, Germ filiform, recurved, not visibly. 
twisted, the length of the horn of the nectary, Stigma a large 
opening on the fore part of the column a little below the an- 
thers, and directly opposite to the ase which it penetrates 
want 
 &, D. clavatum. R. 
Parasitic. Stems club-shaped; bu/bs with three or four 
broad lanceolar leaves from the apex ofeach. Racemes late- 
ral ; petals nearly equal ; lip shovel-shaped, entire. 
Found growing on trees in the forests’ which cover the 
- Garrow hills, where it is called ¢iluscou. Flowering time the 
hot season, chiefly April. 
Root consisting of innumerable, firm, fleshy, veniaabas 
cords, by which the plants adhere firmly to the parent tree. 
Stems numerous, bulbiform, clavate, tapering into a hard, 
fibrous, slender peduncle, between the bulb and root, giving 
to the whole the appearance of a club, hence the specific name. 
Leaves from three to four from the apex of each stem or 
bulb, broad-lanceolar, lucid, firm, about seven-nerved ; five 
or six inches long, by one or two broad, Racemes from the 
side of the bulb, about as long as the leaves. Flowers pret- 
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