482 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, Dendrobium, 
ty large, of a lively yellow colour. Lractes large, oblong, 
membranaceous, one-flowered. Petals five, nearly equal, 
oval, and obovate. Lip the length of the petals, with the side 
incurved toward the base ; /amina shovel-shaped, with crisp- 
ed margins, and the colour deeper than the rest of the corol. 
Genitalia as in the genus. Capsule clavate, six-ribbed, 
smooth and leaved, 
6. D. verairifolium, R 
Parasitic. Leaves lanceolar, from three to seven-nerved, 
several, from the apex of the long conic bulb, forming a stem 
with their long tubular, concentric sheaths, Scape many- 
flowered ; petals sub-lanceolar ; /amina with a broad, three- 
lobed apex ; the middie one plaited and curved. 
_ 'Hatakeveree, the vernacular name in the Garrow country, 
where it is indigenous; flowering in April and’May. 
Root of many, strong, fleshy fibres from the base of each 
bulb, by which they adhere to the parent tree. Bulbs long, 
and rather slender for the size of the plant, tapering off into 
a stem, formed by the long, concentric, tubular sheaths of 
the leaves, from two to four feet long, giving a total length of 
from three to five feet, leaves included, to the whole plant. 
Leaves from four to six from each bulb; sparse, sheathing, 
Janceolar, from three to seven-nerved and somewhat plaited, 
smooth, acute; from six to eighteen inches long, and from 
“two to four sate Scape from the base of the bulbs, general- 
ly solitary, about twelve inches long ; the dower three fourths: 
naked, invested in a few remote sheaths ; the upper portion or 
raceme, about ove fourth part of the whole, and bearing from 
ten to twenty large, beautiful, yellow flowers. Petals five, 
nearly equal, spreading, sub-lanceolar. Lip large and longer 
than the petals, projecting behind into a large conical horn; 
apex of the /amina broad, three-lobed, the middle lobe beau- 
tifully curled, and of a much pele be colour. 
7. D. Pieradi. Roxb. | ae & 
Parasitic, caulescent, pendulous. tanees " biecione ae 
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