Dendrobium—continued. 
with a sulphur lip, very large, freely produced. 
variety. SYN. D. cucullatum giganteum. 
D. profusum (profuse). /l., sepals and petals yellowish-green, 
with fine purple at the base inside, and purple dots on the 
toothed petals, the sepals ligulate, acute ; lip yellow, with a dark 
spot in the middle, the blade pandurate, the anterior part very 
broad, toothleted and wavy; peduncles seven to nine-fowered. 
/, deciduous. Philippine Islands, 1884. 
D. purpureum (purple). jl. bright purple, about jin. long, 
cylindrical, arranged in dense, spherical, sessile clusters, which 
are produced from the nodes of the old, leafless, spindle-shaped 
stems, of many years’ duration, and usually Sft. to 4ft. long; 
bracts cordate. Moluccas, 
D. p. candidulum (whitish). /., tips of the sepals very bright 
green; ovary pure white, stalked. 1887. 
D. p. Moseleyi (Moseley’s) /l._ white, tipped green, the tips 
of the sepals and petals less pointed than in the type; bracts 
ovate, acuminate. Stems Qin. (/ or more) long. Arn Islands, 1884. 
D. revolutum (revolute). jl. solitary, axillary, jin. long; sepals 
and petals white, reflexed upwards, lanceolate, acute, nearly 
equal; lip bright yellow-green, nearly quadrate, convex; disk 
with three furrows and red bands; bracts caducous. July. 
l. numerous, distichous, lin. to 2in. long, oblong or 
linear- or ovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, half-am- 
plexicaul. Stems tufted, lft. long. Pseudo-bulbs 
none. Malay Peninsula, 1882. This species is not 
very handsome (B. M. 6706.) 
D, rhodopterygium Emerici (lmeric’s). ‘A 
white line runs outside the mid-vein of the lateral 
sepals. The dark transverse blotch on the anterior 
area of the lip is interrupted by an amethyst-colour 
bar. The anterior, apiculate border is pure white, 
changing then to straw-colour.” Reichenbach, from 
whose description above is copied, placed this plant 
as a variety under D. polyphlebiwm. 
D. rhombeum (rhomboid). A synonym of D, aurewm. 
D. Rimanni (Rimann’s). /. equalling those of a good 
D. speciosum, disposed in terminal, somewhat zigzag 
racemes ; sepals and petals yellow, the former striped 
purple outside; lip white, with purple reticulations. 
1. oblong, 34in. long, very coriaceous. Stems cylindric- 
fusiform, leafy above. Moluccas, 1883. A stately 
species. i 
D. rutriferum (shovel-bearing). 7., sepals rose, 
triangular, blunt, the lateral ones extended into a 
long pouch; petals rose at the base, whitish at the 
blunt end; lip ligulate-pandurate, with inflexed 
borders, thus saccate at apex, where the borders 
are denticulate; rachis rather short, covered with a 
capitate-umbellate inflorescence. Stem furrowed, as 
thick as a goose-quill. Papua, 1887. (L. iii. 119.) 
D. Schneiderianum (Schneider’s). /. scented, the 
sepals and the broader petals white, tinged lilac- 
purple in the upper half; lip orange, with an area 
of light velvet at base, wherefrom dark reddish lines 
emanate, a whitish area round this is washed with 
light sulphur, the apex of the lip lilac-purple. 
Pseudo-bulbs 6in. high, 2in. thick, three-leaved. 
1887. A hybrid between D. Findlayanum and 
D. aureum. 
D. Schroederi (Baron von Schroeder's). 
of D. densiflorum. 
D. secundum niveum (snowy). jl. white, with the exception of 
an orange tip to the lip. Stem shorter than in the common form. 
D. signatum (preserved). /., chin very blunt-angled; sepals 
sulphur, ligulate, acute, reflexed ; petals white to lightest ochre, 
broader, acute, reflexed; lip shouldered at base, nearly square 
and narrow, suddenly enlarged, the disk marked with a blotch 
and four lines of brown; column light green, with some mauve 
lines; inflorescence one-flowered. Siam, 1884. 
D. speciosum Bancroftianum (Bancroft’s). /l., petals longer 
and narrower than in the type ; lip paler, with a few purple spots 
at base. Stems slenderer. 
D. splendidissimum grandifiorum (large-flowered). /., 
sepals and petals rose-purple at the tips, whiteat base; lip with 
a ree purple blotch and a pale yellow zone. 1887. (M. O. iii., 
p. 91. 
D. Stratiotes (soldier).* /l. of a good size, very peculiar; sepals 
ivory-white, lanceolate, acuminate, rolled back ; petals pale green, 
longer than the sepals, narrow-linear, twisted, quite erect; 
lip cream-coloured, yeined violet, three-lobed, the front lobe 
ovate, acute ; racemes numerous. /. rather short, oblong. Pseudo- 
bulbs long, fusiform. Sunda Islands, 1886. A remarkable and 
handsome species. (G. C. n. s., xxvi., p. 177; I. H. 602.) 
D. strebloceras (twisted-horned). /., sepals green, nerved brown 
on the inner side at base, ligulate, acute, twisted, undulated; petals 
dark cinnamon-brown, margined green, longer, linear, acute, 
twisted four times; lip green, brown, white, and mauve-purple, 
Sikkim. A fine 
A synonym 
THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
Dendrobium—continued. 
the side laciniv oblique, oblong, truncate ; column white, minutely 
spotted brown ; inflorescence eight-flowered. 1887. 
D. s. Rossianum (Ross’). #. white; petals greenish; lip and 
sepals at length yellowish. 1888. 
D. sulcatum polyanthum (many-flowered). /l. buff-yellow, the 
lip orange, with two crimson blotches ; raceme sub-globose, about 
fourteen-flowered ; peduncle erect from an upper axil, then 
arching over. 1. ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, seven- 
nerved, sub-cordate at base, din. to 4}in. long. 1887. 
D. superbum Burkei (Burke's). /. white, with two light 
blush-rose cheeks on the base of the disk of the yellowish-white 
lip. 1884. A fine variety. 
D. tetragonum (quadrangular). //. din. to 4in. across; sepals 
yellow, spotted red, the dorsal one narrow-subulate, the lateral 
ones lanceolate, much broader at the base than the dorsal one ; 
petals white, streaked red, linear, shorter and narrower than the 
sepals; lip white, transversely barred red, broadly ovate, api- 
culate, obscurely three-lobed, with two white lamellae between 
the side lobes; raceme few-flowered. J. in pairs at the summit 
of the stem, spreading, oblong or elliptic-lanceolate. Stems 
pendulous, acutely four-angled, 8in. to 15in. or more in length, 
attenuated to a slender footstalk which is pseudo-bulbous at 
base. Australia. (B. M. 5956.) 
Fic. 15, DENDROBIUM THYRSIFLORUM, showing Habit and 
detached Flower. 
D. thyrsiflorum (thyrse-flowered). The correct name of the 
plant described on p. 453, Vol. I., as D. densiflorwm albo-luteum. 
See Fig. 15. ° 
D. t. Walkerianum (Walker's). ji. larger, racemes stronger, 
and stems longer, than in the type. (W. S. O. iii. 21.) 
D. Treacherianum (Treacher’s). jl. pale rose-red, two or three 
to a scape, sub-erect, upwards of 1}in. long ; sepals narrow-lanceo- 
late, the dorsal one straight, the lateral ones connate in a gibbosity 
or spur striped with red; petals like the dorsal sepal ; lip darker 
red and shorter than the petals, three-lobed. July. J. in pairs, 
Sin. to 4in. long, sin. to jin. broad, linear-oblong. Pseudo-bulbs 
brownish-green, stained red. Borneo, 1880. (B. M. 6591; 
W. O. A. vi. 288.) 
D. trigonopus (triangular-columned). jl. golden-yellow; sepals 
ligulate, acuminate, keeled on the middle; petals broader and 
shorter; claw of the lip rather long, dilated into a broad lamina 
whose lateral segments are nearly square; column triangular- 
pandurate. JU. thick, papery, dull green, rather rough, slightly 
hirsute at back. Birma, 1887. 
D. Vannerianum (Vanner's). /., sepals white, margined purple, 
lanceolate ; petals white, purple at apex, oblong, acuminate ; lip 
white, marked purple, rhombic, the disk sulphur-coloured. 
1. lanceolate, more than 2in. long, sin. wide. 1887. A hybrid 
between D. japonicum and D. Falconer. 
D. Veitchianum (Veitch’s). A synonym of D. macrophyllwin. 
D. vexabile (vexing). fl. light sulphur-ochre, partly white ; 
