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pretly species has fiowered imperfeclly milh Mrs. Loddiges , who received ii from 

 Borabay by the overland conveyance. Its exacl locality was nol before known; the 

 specimens in (leyne's herbarium , where I found ihe species, alTording no informaiion 

 upon ihat point. In a healthy siate ihe planl forms a tuft of slender clavate stenis, 

 from 4 — 6 " high , loosely covered wiih the withered sheaths of leaves . that have 

 fallen o(T. From all sides there appear in the Qowering season slender spreading ra- 

 cemes about 3" long , having each from 5—9 smallish white flowers, wiih a greenish- 

 yellow lip beautifully slreaked wilh violet: they have no sraell. 



Wight Ic. Pl. Ind. or. III. II. 909. 1844. Epiph. on tree branches in Malabar. 

 99. DENDROBIUM BARBATULDM Lindl. Orch. 44. — Paxt. FI. G. III. p. 113. c. xyl. 285. 



— Bombay. Baleman. — Occurs under the name of D. Heyneanum : muslin white flo- 

 wers , erect spikes. — Lip is threelobed, very slightly downy with 2 short lateral 

 obtuse lobes and a linear callosity reaching as far upwards as ihe sinus of those 

 lobes. The middle lobe obovate and obtuse. — A transposiiion of labels, memoranda. 

 skelches led me into the great error of confounding this with the evidently different 

 D. chlorops (B. R. 1844). 



100. DENDROblUM CHLOROPS Lindl. - Bot. Reg. XXX. 1844. Misc. 54. 



Caulibus terelibus, floribus laxe corymbosis , pedicellis filiformibus 

 glaucescenlibus, sepalis lineari-oblongis, petalis duplo iatioribus obova- 

 tis , labelli trilobi plani lobis lateralibus nanis acutis intermedio lineari- 

 oblongo apice paulo latiore basi villoso , cornu brevi conico. 



Bombay. Habit of D. Heyneanum. Small flowers of a pale nankin colour , while 

 the base of the lip is a light pea green. This gives ihe flower theappearance of having 

 a green eye. 



Bot. Reg. XXX. 1844. Misc. 62. pag. 59. — When dried the parts of the flowers 

 become extremely ihin and difflcult lo examine, and 1 was thus led to suppose that 

 the lip was undivided. I have however ascertained thal it is really 3 iobed and ihat 

 my D. chlorops is the same species more correctly deflned. 



Huc: „Dendrobium barbatulum Lindl." VVight Ic. pL Or. IILII. 910. (1844.) — Seems 

 to be a handsome species growing on trees , but of which little is yet known, the 

 speciraens from which it was taken up having been poor ones. The one figured here 

 was found in Malabar. Flowers pale straw coloured. 



101. DENDRBIUM BICAMERATUM Lindl. — Bot. Reg. XXV. 1839. Misc. 85. 

 Caulibus fusiformibus, foliis lineari-lanceolatis apice oblique biden- 



tatis, pedunculis lateralibus squamatis 4 floris, floribus concavis sub- 

 carnosis. sepalis petalisque subrotundo-ovatis acutis, labelli trilobi la- 

 cinia intermedia rotundata apiculata carnosa, lateraiibus triangularibus 

 acutis brevinre, columnae facie excavata semibiloculari. 



North of India. Gibson brought to the duke of Devonshire. Stems grow nearly 

 upright. and are rather short , fusiform, furrowed when old. Flowers little smaller, 

 ihan ihose of Maxillaria stapelioides . like thera in form. their colour is dull yellow, 

 spolled and streaked wiih purple. — Flowers grew in fours, on a very short peduncle, 

 closely covered with ovate concave bracts, speckled wilh purple. The excavation of 

 the face of ihe column and its division into two cells are remarkable. 



102. DENDRODIUM BRISBRANENSE Rchb. fil. Huc : Dendrobium elongalum All. Cunn. 



— Bot. Reg. XXV. 1839. Misc. 33. 



Caulibiis arliculatis teretibus sulcatis elongalis erectis 4 — 5 phyllis, 

 foliis ovato-lanceolatis aculiusculis apice obliquis emarginatis, racemo 

 terminali 3—10 floro, foliolis perianthii ovatis obtusiusculis, labelli disco 

 3-carinalo lobo intermedio lato cordiformi. 



On trees in shaded dark woods, on the banks of the Brisbane River. Sept. 1828. 

 New Soulh Wales. All. Cunningh. 



Bot. Rc&. XXVII. 1841. Misc. 53. — Flowercd wilh Loddiges. Has erecl stems about 



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