480 GYNANDRIA MONANDRiA. Dendroblum. 



sheathing. Scapes generally solitary, from the base of the 

 bulbs, spreading ; base embraced by a few sheaths, the rest 

 downy. Raceme generally simple, which with the scape is 

 about as long as the leaves and bulb, somewhat flexuose, 

 downy, many-flowered. Ploioers remote, pedicelled, erect, 

 of a middling size, yellow, inodorous. Bractes ensiform, one 

 below each pedicel. Petals, the exterior one, sub-triangular- 

 ly-Ianceolate, the interior two linear-lanceolar. Li/) recurved, 

 with a small lobe on each side below the middle ; apex retuse 

 with a point in the sinus. Pollen masses composed of twice 

 two pair of minute, oval, compressed, yellow grains. Column 

 half the length of the two inner petals. 



4. D. cruminatum. R. 



Parasitic. Stems simple, swelled, and angular near the 

 base. Leaves bifarious, stem-clasping, linguiform. /^lowers 

 suspended near the apex of the stem. Lip three-lobed ; the la- 

 teral lobe incurved into a tube ; lamina roundish, acuminate. 



AngTsecum uonum. Rumph. Jlmb. v'x.p. 104. t. 47.y. 2. 



A native of Amboyna, and from thence brought to the Bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta by Mr. C. Smith. Flowering time, 

 in Bengal, the rainy season. 



Root consisting of many, perennial, green, fleshy fibres, 

 spreading over, and adhering firmly, to the parent tree. Stems 

 several, sub-erect, swelled above the base and there oct- 

 angular, from thence to the apex slender, round, tapering, 

 gently invested in the sheaths of the leaves, or if they have 

 fallen, marked with their annular cicatrices and a few slender 

 bristles; the whole length from two to three feet, ieaues bifa- 

 rious, sheathing, linguiform, entire, smooth, firm, and fleshy, 

 veinless ; from two to four inches long, and about one broad. 

 Flowers sessile, except the curved slender germ be consider- 

 ed a peduncle, solitary from the last two, three or four leaf- 

 less joints of the stem, large, pendulous, suspended on their 

 curved, slender, filiform pedicel, taintly fragrant. Bractes 

 three-fold, one-flowered, short, sheathing the base of the 



