484 GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. Dendrobium. 
of the anthers on the apex of the style. Lid or veil mitre- 
shaped, emarginate. 
8. D. purpureum. R. 
Parasitic. Stems simple, pendulous, in flower leafless ; 
leaves bifarious, lanceolate. Flowers numerous in dense 
ovate heads. Lip linear, oblong, entire. 
Angrecum purpureum. Rumph, Amb, vi. t. 50. f. 1. 
A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced into the 
Botanic garden, where it blossoms in February and March. 
Root of numerous fleshy fibres, adhering in all directions 
to the trunks and branches of trees, here it thrives best on the 
mango tree, Stems perennial, several, pendulous or nearly 
so; for the first year or two fleshy, when old naked, marked 
with the circular cicatrices of the fallen leaves; they are then 
somewhat rugose, longitudinally furrowed, and thickest to- 
ward the middle; the general length three ocr four feet. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, sessile on their smooth, cylindric 
sheaths, spreading, lanceolate, entire, of a slender texture, 
and polished on both sides; from four to six inches long, and 
about one broad. Bractes cordate, acute, one-flowered. 
Flowers numerous, in dense, ovate, solitary heads, from the’ 
cicatrices of the leafless stems, small and of a lively purple. — 
Corol five-petalled, &c. as in the genus, with a large obtuse. 
horn, Lip sub-cylindric, with ovate, rather pointed, entire 
9. D. pendulum. R. 
_ Parasitic. Stems simple, pendulous, contracted at the 
joints and base, when old leafless, Leaves on the young 
shoots, bifarious, linear. Flowers in pairs from the joints of 
the old leafless stem, drooping ; petals sub-equal, laneeolate 5 
lip sub-orbicular, short-clawed. Capsules clavate, obscure- 
ly six-ribbed, : 
Found growing on trees in the forests of Chittagong, 10 
flower during the hot season, It seems to approach the neat- 
