Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA, 485 
est to D. moniliforme, and if Keempfer’s figure were inverted, 
they might be taken for the same. 
10. D. teres, Roxb. 
Parasitic. Stem, branches and leaves all columnar. Ra- 
cemes leaf-opposed, and of their length, few-flowered. Sta- 
mina stem-shaped, and bifid. 
Found on trees in the forests of Chittagong and Silhet, 
where it blossoms during the hot months of April, and May, 
when nothing can exceed its beauty, 
Root of thick, fleshy, crooked, lateral cords, which embrace 
firmly the parent tree. Stem ramous, and with the branches 
columnar and smooth. Leaves remote, bifarious, columnar, 
smooth, from six to eight inches long, and as thick as a com- 
mon quill, Racemes leaf-opposed, from six to twelve inches 
long, flexuose, round, smooth. Bractes ovate, one-flowered, 
Flowers generally from three to six on the raceme, but in- 
mensely large as they expand fully four inches, of a lively 
pink colour, with the large conic horn ferruginous. Corol ; 
the exterior three petals oblong; the lower two obliquely so ; 
the interior ones nearly round. Lip, its posterior part unit- 
ed with the insertion of the exterior lower two petals into a 
large ferruginous conic horn, Lamina deeply three-lobed ; 
lateral lobes incurved round the column ; the middle inp fax 
shaped, and bifid. Germ, column, sehen and stigma as in 
the genus, Capsule clavate, three-sided, down the middle of © 
each side is a three-sided rib. 
Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves bifarious, sessile, lanceolate ; 
peduncles terminal, few-flowered. Lip sub-panduriform, re- 
tases * 
Bound: on trees in the Ksiedt of Silhet and the Garrow moun- 
tains ; in flower in April and May. 
Root of fleshy, crooked, cord-like fibres, which cantonal 
parent tree, as in other similar parasites. Stems many, cy- 
