Dendrohhnn. gynandria monandria. 479 



Scape from the base of the bulb, simple, naked, slender 

 smooth, from three to five inches long. Raceme, or flower- 

 bearing part longer than the scape, round. Flowers numer- 

 ous, middling sized, white, scattered over every part of the ra- 

 ceme. Bractes solitary, ensiform, one-flowered. Petals, the 

 exterior three lanceolate-conic, acute, one in each side and one 

 above ; the inner two linear, oblong, minute, and ciliate. Lip 

 linear, obtuse, recurved, shorter than the three exterior petals, 

 and attached by a slender isthmus, to the lower edge of the 

 baseof the exterior two, colour an uniform brownish orange. 

 Column and other parts, as in the genus. 



3. D. pumilum. R. 



Parasitic. Leaves two from the apex of each of the tur- 

 binate bulbs. Peduncles solitary between the pair of leaves, 

 one-flowered. 



This is the smallest species 1 have yet met with, it grows on 

 trees in the forests of Chittagong, where it blossoms during 

 the rains. 



Parasitic, stemless, or rather, the stems bulbiform ; leaves 

 from three to four, rising from each bulb, lanceolar, even, 

 smooth and rather fleshy. Scapes from the base of the bulb; 

 raceme villous, bearing many erect flowers ; the inner two pe- 

 tals linear. Lip recurved, with somewhat three-lobed lamina. 



Found indigenous on trees in the forests of Chittagong, 

 from thence introduced into the Botanic garden where it blos- 

 soms in February. 



Root, consisting of many firm, slender, tortuous fibres, 

 which adhere to the parent tree. Stem no other than the 

 ovate oblong, smooth, green, somewhat compressed, solid 

 bulbs, which give support to the leaves; they multiply by 

 short suckers from the base of those of the former years, and 

 are generally from half an inch, to an inch asunder. Leaves 

 about four, from and around the apex of each bulb, narrow 

 lanceolar, smooth, and fleshy, from four to eight inches long, 

 and one or one and a half broad. Petioles short, channelled, 



