1695 



* DENDR(3BIUM aggregatum. 

 Clustered Dendrohium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^. 8. Malaxideae Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p. 262.) 



DENDROBIUM. Supra, vol. 7,fol.548. 



D. aggregatum ; pseudobulbis monophyllis fusiformibus cinereis corrugatis, folio 

 oblongo coriaceo obtuso racemo laterali cernuo multlfloro duplo breviore, 

 petalis ovatis sepalis duplo latioribus, labello integerrimo latiore quam longo 

 medio transverse plicato basi pubesceiite. 



D. aggregatum Roxb. FL Ind. 3. 477. Lindl. in Wallich. cat. 7411. 



Pseudobulbi fusiformes, ccespitosi, 2-pollicares, sqiiamis cinereis pellu- 

 cidis vestiti. Folia S-pollicaria, obscure 5-striata. Racemi e latere pseudo- 

 bulbi provcnientes, 9 pollices et ultra longi, laxi, cernui, v. nuiantes, 1 0- 

 \5-fiori. Bractese minimoe, ovatce, purpurascentes. Flores pallidi, sub- 

 crocei, pedicellis gracilibus Jlexuosis inscrti. Sepala explanata, anguste ovata, 

 anterioribus valde obliquis in pseudocalcar obtusum conniventibus, more 

 generis. Petala ovata, sepalis duplb latiora. Labellum versus basin intensius 

 croceum, tali modo dilatatum et plicatum ut marginibus suis posterioribus 

 petalorum dimidiam inferiorem imbricat ; cum columna articulatum. Columna 

 parva, albida, basi processu carnoso squamiformi dejlexo aucta ; clinandrio 

 obtuse tridentato. 



Received, according to Dr. Roxburgh, into the Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, from Mr. Pierard, who found it growing 

 on the trunk of Lagerstreemia Regince, on the northern border 

 of Arracan, and observed it in the woods exclusively on that 

 tree ; it was, however, found to thrive on the Mango tree in 

 the Botanic Garden. It is also a native of the banks of the 

 Chappadong river in the Gulf of Martaban, whence it was 

 brought some years since by Dr. Wallich. It belongs to a 

 curious section of the genus, all the species of which have 

 their stems shortened into the pseudobulbous form of Bolbo- 

 phyllum, and thus form a natural transition to that genus. 



* Sec fol. 1239. 



