Dendrobium catillare Reichenbach filius in See- 
mann FI. Vit. (1868) 804. 
The original description of this species is not very 
good and Kriinzlin, in his monograph of the genus, was 
not able to clarify the species. ‘The redescription given 
below is based on Smith 871 and 905. These specimens 
are inthe herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden. 
An epiphytic caespitose herb with simple stems up to 
3 dm. long. Stems multiarticulate, slender, indurated, 
the segments mostly 1-2 em. long, yellow, with the leaf- 
sheaths on the older ones disintegrated, the younger parts 
of the stem covered with leaf-sheaths. Leaves lanceolate, 
acute or somewhat obtuse, slightly bilobed, several- 
nerved, 2.5—5 cm. long, 0.6—-1 em. broad, articulated to 
the striated sheath which invests the stem, soon decidu- 
ous. Inflorescence short, borne on the leafless stems, 
mostly 2—5-flowered ; bracts hyaline, obscurely maculate, 
lanceolate, acute, 4-7 mm. long, 2—-3.5 mm. broad. Flow- 
ers medium-sized for the subgenus, about 1.8 mm. long, 
pink and white. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, obtuse, 3—-5- 
nerved, about 9 mm. long and 8 mm. broad. Lateral 
sepals attached to the column-foot and forming with it 
a slightly curved obtuse mentum 8-9 mm. long which 
is closed for about 2 mm. at the base; free part of the 
blade lanceolate, acute, 5—7-nerved, about 8 mm. long 
and 4mm. broad. Petals elliptic-oblanceolate, obtuse or 
acute, 3—5-nerved, about 10 mm. long and 8 mm. broad 
above the middle. Lip simple, unguiculate; claw slightly 
cochleate, about 5 mm. long and 2.2 mm. broad, with an 
inconspicuous callus at the junction with the blade; 
blade rhombic, the anterior half serrulate, ecallose, acute, 
several-nerved, 9-10 mm. long and 5—7 mm. broad. Col- 
umn short, with two ovate lateral wings and a linear dor- 
sal tooth at the apex. 
Dendrobium catillare has much the habit of a small 
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