482 GYNANDRiA MONANDR1 A. Dendrohium. 



ty large, of a lively yellow colour. Bractes large, oblong, 

 membranaceous, one-flowered. Petals five, nearly equal, 

 oval, and obovate. Lip the length of the petals, with the side 

 incurved toward the base ; lamina shovel-shaped, with crisp- 

 ed margins, and the colour deeper than the rest of the corol. 

 Genitalia as in the genus. Capsule clavate, six-ribbed, 

 smooth and leaved. 



6. D. veralrijolium. R. 



Parasitic. Leaves lanceolar, from three to seven-nerved, 

 several, from the apex of the long conic bulb, forming a stem 

 with their long tubular, concentric sheaths. Scape many- 

 flowered ; petals sub-lanceolar ; lamina with a broad, three- 

 lobed apex ; the middle one plaited and curved. 



Hatakeveree, the vernacular name in the Garrow country, 

 where it is indigenous; flowering in April and May. 



Root of many, strong, fleshy fibres from the base of each 

 bulb, by which they adhere to the parent tree. Bulbs long, 

 and rather slender for the size of the plant, tapering oflfinto 

 a stem, formed by the long, concentric, tubular sheaths of 

 the leaves, from two to four feet lonof, giving a total length of 

 from three to five feet, leaves included, to the whole plant. 

 Leaves from four to six from each hailb ; sparse, sheathing, 

 lanceolar, from three to seven-nerved and somewhat plaited, 

 smooth, acute ; from six to eighteen inches long, and from 

 two to four broad. Scape from the base of the bulbs, general- 

 ly solitary, about twelve inches long ; the /otoer three fourths 

 naked, invested in a few remote sheaths ; the upper portion or 

 raceme, about one fourth part of the whole, and bearing from 

 ten to twenty large, beautiful, yellow flowers. Petals ^ve^ 

 nearly equal, spreading, sub-lanceolar. Lip large and longer 

 than the petals, projecting behind into a large conical horn ; 

 apex of the lamina broad, three-lobed, the middle lobe beau- 

 tifully curled, and of a much brighter colour. 



7. D. Pieradi. Roxb. 



Parasitic, caulescent, pendulous. Leaves bifarious, Ian- 



