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* DENDR6bIUM macrostachyum. 



Long-spiked Dendrohium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDHIA. 



Nat. ord. ORCHiDACEiE, § Malaxide^. 

 DENDROBIUM.— Supra, vol. l.fol. 548. 



D. macrostachyum ; caulibus teretibus pendulis flagelliformibus, foliis ovato- 

 lanceolatis submembranaceis, floribus ternatis racemum spurium formantibus, 

 sepalis ovatis acutis, petalis lanceolatis sepalo supremo subaequalibus, labello 

 cucullato venoso : limbo ovato obtuso ciliato intus pubescente. Gen. ^ 

 Sp. Orch. 78. 



A native of Ceylon, where it was discovered by the late 

 Mr. James Macrae, who some years ago sent me dried 

 specimens and a drawing of it. Upon the former I found a 

 minute blanched portion that seemed still alive ; this was 

 fastened by a nail and shred to a damp shady wall in a stove 

 in the garden of the Horticultural Society, where it gradually 

 recovered its green colour and began to grow. By tending 

 it carefully, and not feeding it until it had recovered the 

 effects of its long fast while buried between two sheets of 

 brown paper in a dry chest, it gradually recovered and grew 

 into a plant, the offspring of which has been distributed. 

 From one of them, which flowered in the garden of Mr. 

 Bateman, the accompanying drawing was prepared in June 

 last. 



The species approaches to D. Pierardi, cucullatum, and 

 pulchellum, than all of which it is less beautiful, and it requires 

 precisely the same treatment as those species. 



* See folio 1249. 



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