Dendrobium. gynandria monandria. 481 



germ. Corol almost pure white, besprinkled with minute, 

 pellucid dots, like the grains of fine loaf-sugar ; petals unila- 

 teral, sub-lanceolate, the lower two longer, united to, and 

 protruded with the column of fructification of the apex 

 of the horn of the nectary. Lip occupying the under side, 

 opposite to the petals, and like them sprinkled with the same 

 pellucid specks; /torw or /jo?<c/t large, and conical ; lamina 

 three-lobed, on the centre a yellow line runs the whole 

 length ; lateral lobes incurved ; terminal one nearly round, 

 and pointed from the exterior portion of (he margins being 

 incurved ; all, particularly the last mentioned, are beautiful- 

 ly marked with pink-coloured, curved,ramous veins, and the 

 margins elegantly fringed. Column of the fructification near- 

 ly half the length of the lip, on (he apex rest two, very per- 

 fect, yellow anthers. Germ filiform, recurved, not visibly 

 twisted, the length of (he horn of the nectary. Stigma a large 

 opening- on the fore part of (he column a little below the an- 

 thers, and directly opposite to the germ, which it penetrates 

 deeply. 



5. D. clavatnm. R. 



Parasitic. Stems club-shaped; bulbs with three or four 

 broad lanceolar leaves 'rrom the apex of each. Racemes late- 

 ral ; petals nearly equal ; lip shovel-shaped, entire. 



Found growing on trees in the forests' which cover the 

 Garrow hills, where it is called tiluscou. Flowering time the 

 hot season, chiefly April. 



Root consisting of innumerable, firm, fleshy, vermicular 

 cords, by m hich the plants adhere firmly to the parent tree. 

 Stems numerous, bulbiform, clavate, tapering into a hard, 

 fibrous, slender peduncle, between the bulb and root, o-jvino- 

 to the whole the appearance of a club, hence the specific name. 

 Leaves from three to four from the apex of each stem or 

 bulb, broad-lanceolar, lucid, firm, about seven-nerved ; five 

 or six inches long, by one or two broad. Racemes from the 

 side of (he bulb, about as long as (he leaves. Flowers pret- 

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