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DENDROBIUM* seculidum. 

 One-sided Dendrobium. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. ORCiiiDEiE. § Malaxideee Lindl. * Dendrobiese. 

 DENDROBIUM. — Suprd, vol. 1 . fol. 548. 



§ Caules undique Joliosi, cylindracei, scep^ penduli. 



D. secundum; caulibus pendulis, foliis oblongis apice obliqu^ retusis, 

 racemis lateralibus terminal ibusque secundis, sepalis ovatis : lateralibus 

 basi in cornu longo obtuso incurvo connatis, petalis supremo paulo 

 minoribus, labello integerrimo acuto apice tumido. — Lindley, Genera and 

 Species of Orchideous Plants, part 1, ined. 



D. secundum. Wall, in cat. herb. ind. 



Pedilonum secundum, Blume Bijdrag. p. 322, 



For an opportunity of presenting the public with a figure of this 

 fine species, we have to thank Mr. Tate, of the Sloane Street Nur- 

 sery, by whom a plant in flower was communicated in July last. 

 It had been collected at Rajah Bassa, in Sumatra, by William 

 M'Killigin, Esq. 



It appears, from Dr, Wallich's drawings, to be a most lovely 

 species in its native places of growth, forming long pendent stems, 

 which throw out an abundance of one-sided racemes of purple flowers 

 5 or 6 inches long. The specimen now represented blossomed 

 imperfectly, as its stems had been allowed to remain in an erect, 

 instead of pendent position. The habit of this, and many other 

 Dendrobriums, being to hang down from the trees on which they 

 grow, it is impossible to cultivate them with any success unless they 

 are suspended in the air in pots, or otherwise so managed that they 

 can shoot freely in the way that is natural to them. 



If we are right in Dr, Blume's synonym, which we can scarcely 



* So called from ^sv^gov, a tree, and /3<o'<y, to live; the species all 

 growing upon trees. 



