DENDROBIUM crumenatum. 

 Sweet Cluh-stemmed Dendrobium. 



GYNANDRIA MOKA-NDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace^, § Malaxide^. 

 DENDROBIUM. Bot. Register, vol. 7. fol. 548. 



D. crumenatum; caulibus csespitosis erectis basl incrassatis teretibus, foliis ovato- 

 oblongis obtusis emarginatis, racemo terminali (3-5) multifloro, sepalis pe- 

 talisque ovatis acuminatis subundulatis conformibus, labello cucuUato tri- 

 lobo : lobis lateralibus truncatis intermedio ovato acuto. disco lamellato. 



Angraecum crumenatum. Rumph. herb. amb. VI. 105. t. 47. y. 2, 



Onychium crumenatum. Blum. Bijdr. p. 326. 



Dendroblum crumenatum. Swartz. Willd. sp. pi. no. 20. Hort. Trans. VII, 

 p. 70. Gen. et Sp. arch. p. 88. 



A native of various parts of the Indian Archipelago, 

 where it inhabits the branches of trees : this species has 

 long been known to Botanists from the figure given by 

 Rumphius, and by specimens which travellers, attracted by 

 its delicious perfume, have from time to time sent to Europe. 



Dr. Blume found it in Java, near Batavia, and on the 

 coast of the little island of Nusa Kambanga ; and the late Sir 

 Stamford Raffles met with it in Sumatra. Rumphius gives 

 no locality for it, referring from the body of his work to a 

 description in the Appendix or Auctuarium, where, how- 

 ever, nothing is to be found except a back reference to the 

 body of the work ; it is doubtless however an inhabitant of 

 Aml3oyna. The specimen now figured was sent by Mr. 

 Nightingale from Ceylon to his Grace the Duke of Northum- 

 berland, in whose collection at Syon it flowered in Aii2:ust 

 1837. 



According to Blume it varies with white and pink flowers, 

 and with leaves more or less oblong and coriaceous. It is one 

 April, 1839. i 



