Dendrobium. oynandria monanduia. 4b3 



ceolate, emarginate. Fhncers ped uncled, from one to two 

 or three IVoiu the joints of the leafless steins. Lip entire, tu- 

 bular toward the base. 



Sent with some other species, from Chittagong to this gar- 

 den, by Mr. Pierard. This beautiful parasitic is a native of 

 that place, as well as of various parts of the Delta of the 

 Ganges, where it is generally found on mango trees. 



Root perennial, fibrous, adhering to the parent tree. Stems 

 perennial, numerous, simple, drooping, round, smooth, joint- 

 ed, while young leaf-bearing, but as they advance in age the 

 leaves drop, and they ever afterwards remain naked, except 

 when decorated with blossoms, generally from two to five 

 feet long. Leaves alternate, sessile on their sheaths, lanceo- 

 late, smooth, firm and shining on both sides; from two to 

 four inches long, and about one broad. Flowers one or two, 

 rarely three, on very short peduncles, which issue from the 

 joints of the stems. They are large and of a pale yellow co- 

 lour. Corol ; the exterior three petals narrow, tapering from 

 the base, with the margins recurved ; the inner two broader, 

 and oblong. Lip the length of the petals, shovel-shaped, 

 with the margins slightly curled, and somewhat ciliate, to- 

 wards the base incurved into a tube, which conceals the co- 

 lumn of fructification. Its very pedicel is protruded from 

 the base of the style, or column of fructification. Germ in- 

 ferior, &c. as in the rest of this natural order. Column of 

 fructification, or the term style might still be a better one, 

 short, hid in the involute tubular portion of the lip near the 

 base, semi-circular, with flat, furrowed lamina. Stigma on 

 the interior side of the column, a little below the apex is a 

 hollow, glutinous gland with a very perfect perforation, 

 which ends in the cavity of the germ ; this I consider to be the 

 real style and stiyma, or in other words, the organ by which 

 the powers of the male are conveyed to the female. Sta- 

 mina ; filaments two, exceedingly short and slender, joining 

 the posterior small end of the two, obovate, oblong anthers 

 to the posterior part of the two-lobed concavity. Receptacle 



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