Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 483 
ceolate, emarginate, Flowers peduncled, from one to two 
or three from the joints of the leafless stems, Lip entire, tu- 
bular toward the base. 
Sent with some other species, from Chittagong to this gar- 
den, by Mr, Pierard. This beautiful parasitic is a native of 
that place, as well as of various parts of the Delta of the 
Ganges, where it is generally found on mango trees, 
Root perennial, fibrous, adhering to the parent tree, Stems 
perennial, numerous, simple, drooping, round, smooth, joint- 
ed, while young leaf-bearing, but as they advance in age the 
leaves drop, and they ever afterwards remain naked, except 
when decorated with blossoms, generally from two to five 
feet long. Leaves alternate, sessile on their sheaths, lanceo-. 
late, smooth, firm and shining on both sides; from two to 
four inches long, and about one broad, Flowers one or two, 
rarely three, on very short peduncles, which issue from the 
joints of the stems. They are large and of a pale yellow co- 
lour. Corol ; the exterior three petals narrow, tapering from 
the base, with the margins recurved ; the inner two broader, 
and oblong. Lip the length of the petals, shovel-shaped, 
with the margins slightly curled, and somewhat ciliate, to- 
wards the base incurved into a tube, which conceals the co- 
lumn of fructification. Tis very pedicel is protruded from 
the base of the style, or column of fructification. Germ in- 
ferior, &c. as in the rest of this natural order. Column of. 
_fructification, or the term style might still be a better one, 
short, hid in the involute tubular portion of the lip near the 
base, semi-circular, with flat, furrowed lamina. Stigma on 
the interior side of the column, a little below the apex is a 
hollow, glutinous gland with a very perfect perforation, 
which ends in the cavity of the germ ; this 1 consider to be the 
real style and stigma, or in other words, the organ by which 
the powers of the male are conveyed to the female. Sta- 
mina ; filaments two, exceedingly short and slender, joining 
the posterior small end of the two, obovate, oblong anthers 
to the posterior part of the two-lobed conemeilites Receptacle 
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