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obtusis, labello crasso erecto arcualo subcanaliculato 

 quasi trilobo, lobis lateralibus minimis medio rotundato 



obsolete crcnulato Nilgherries. —About three or 



four inches high. Lip pale green. Sepals whitish flesh- 

 colour. 

 6S. D. pygirKEum (Lindl. no. 45. Dendrohium pusillum, Don. 

 Prodr. 35) ; caulibus erectis csespitosis vaginis laxis 

 foliorum vestitis, foliis lineari-lanceolatis, racemis sub- 

 erectis terminalibus multifloris foliorum longitudine, 

 rachi angulato, bracteis merabranaceis acuminatis, sepalis 

 inferioribus ovatis acuminatis ad basin cornu incurvo 

 connatis : supremo petalisque lineari-spatulatis acutis, 

 labello unguiculato cuneatointegro : callis duobus longi- 

 tudinalibus in disco ; margine anteriore carnoso crispo 



plicato lobo intermedio ovato. Martaban. — — A very 



small plant, forming tufts. Very near D. microbulbon, 

 but different in the form of the lip ; and the flowers are 

 much smaller. 



Nearly allied to the racemose Dendrobia just described 

 is that curious race, already enumerated at t. 28 of our volume 

 for last year, under the name of 8patulata. They are plants 

 with hard stiff slender stems, clothed with coriaceous dis- 

 tichous leaves, and bear their flowers in long lateral many- 

 flowered racemes. They are all remarkable for having the 

 petals considerably longer than the sepals. In order to pre- 

 serve some uniformity in nomenclature I would propose the 

 name Ceratobium for them. 



Sect. III. Ceratobium. Stems erect, slender. Leaves 

 coriaceous, distichous. Racemes lateral, many-fiowered. Pe- 

 tals much longer than the sepals. 



64. D. taurinum (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. t. 28.); foliis 

 oblongis oblique emarginatis, racemo oblongo, sepalis 

 ovatis obtusiusculis, petalis linearibus contortis duplo 

 longioribus, labello oblongo apice crispo per axin lineis 



3 elevatis intermedia apice flexuosa aucto. Manilla. 



This has large flowers, with yellowish green sepals, 



rolled back at the points, very long deep purple twisted 

 petals, and a paler purple lip, with three elevated lines 

 along the middle, and a few small tubercles near the 

 apex. The stem is five feet higb. 



