Dendrobium. GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 487 
pink flower at each of the six or eight curvatures, Bractes, 
one at the insertion of each pedicel, long and tapering, Petals 
five, of the exterior three the upper one is lanceolar, the pair 
falcate and rather larger ; the interior two oval. Lip with a 
pretty large obtuse horn, and broad, spreading, beautifully 
coloured, obcordate lamina, which is rather shorter than the 
petals. 
13. D. anceps. Willd. iv. 136. 
Parasitic, caulescent. Leaves distichous, equitant, fleshy, 
broad-ensiform. Peduncles from the sheaths of the leaves, 
one-flowered., r 
This interesting rather small species is found on trees in the _ 
Delta of the Ganges: in flower during the hot season, 
14, D. acinaciforme. R. 
Parasitic. Stem and branches flat, thin, slender, tere 
edged. Leaves stem-clasping, bifarious, scimitar-shaped. 
Flowers suspended from the terminal joints of the then leaf- 
less twigs. Lip one-lobed, crenulate. 
Herba supplex. Rumph. Amb. vi. p. 110. t. 51. f. 2. 
A native of Amboyna, from thence sent to the Bataiic ast 
den where it blossoms during the rains, 
Root of numerous, firm fibres, adhering firmly to the! p pa- 
rent tree. Stems and branches a little drooping, or strag- 
gling, jointed, and smooth, at the base round, slender, of a 
very firm texture; above enlarging considerably and be- 
coming perfectly fiat, indeed thin, with two sharp edges. 
Leaves on the young shoots only, alternate, bifarious, sessile 
on their permanent sheaths, acinaciform, or they may be call- 
ed semi-lanceolate, pointed, firm, fleshy, smooth, veinless ; 
from two to three inches long, and about half an inch broad. 
Sheaths as long as the joints, and like them compressed. 
Flowers from the joints of the leafless branches suspended on 
their slender pedicel-like germs, very small, every part yel-— 
low, even the centre of the nectary. Braetes several, minute, 
