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Dendrobium—continued. 
D. nobile album (white).* This variety resembles D. 7. 
virginale, but without the primrose disk. A fine plant of the 
typical species is shown in Fig. 334. 
D. n. Amesiz (Mrs. Ames). This is a variety with very pale 
tips to the sepals, petals, and tip of the lip. The disk is 
exceedingly dark. 
D. n. Cooksonianum (Cookson’s).” ., middle area of the petals 
very deep purple, their tips with poe borders; bases of the 
petals hastate, thickened in the middle and velvety. 1885. A 
grand variety. ; 
Fic. 335. DENDROBIUM PENDULUM. 
D. n. elegans (elegant). . larger and more symmetrical than in 
the ordinary forms; petals broader, white at the base; zone 
surrounding the maroon disk of the lip pale sulphur-yellow, the 
apical margin rose-purple. 
D. n. Sanderianum (Sander’s). fl., sepals and petals purple, 
the latter white at base; disk of lip covered by a dark blotch, 
which is surrounded by rosy-purple, except a small white area 
in front, veined purple, and with a white border to the superior 
part. 1884. 
D. n. virginale (virgin-white). /l. pure eee with the exception 
of a tinge of pale primrose on the lip. 
D. rea eae ne (dark-lipped). i. produced in fascicles 
on the upper and ultimately leafless part of the stem; sepals and 
petals green, striped very dark red; lip green, with a dark spot 
on the disk, broad, eta ae side lobes, and a very short, retuse 
central lobe. Papua, 1 
D. Palpebre (eyelids). #. French white, with an orange-yellow 
disk near the base of the lip, faintly scented like Hawthorn ; 
sepals oblong, narrower than the oval sepals ; lip oblong, with a 
short, convolute claw, downy above, and with a fringe of long 
hairs near the base; column yellowish ; racemes loose, six- to ten- 
flowered, produced from the joints immediately below the leaves. 
Late summer. /. oblong-lanceolate, acute. Stems clavate, four- 
angled, attenuated below, 7in. to Yin. long, with three to five 
leaves at their summit. Birma, 1849. 
D. Papilio (butterfly). #. large, solitary, fragrant, pendent ; 
sepals and petals pale rose-coloured; lip yellow, veined with 
Rurels, long-unguiculate, wavy. J. linear, channelled to the base. 
tems thin and grass-like. Philippine Islands (?), 1890. Allied 
to D. cruentum. 
D. pardalinum (leopard-spotted). A synonym of D. Macrei. 
D. Parishii albens (whitish). . white, with a blotch of 
crimson-purple just within the throat of the lip. 1891. A free, 
graceful, and delicate variety. 
D. Parthenium (Parthenium). 1. white, with a purple blotch 
at the base of the lip ; sepals lanceolate-triangular, with obscure 
keels; petals oblong, obtuse, longer than the sepals; racemes 
two-flowered. /. 14in. long. Stems thin. Borneo, 1885. 
Vol. V. 
Dendrobium—continwed. 
RRA (Paxton’s), of Lindley. A synonym of D. chrysan- 
thum. ; 
D. pendulum (pendulous). The correct name of D. Wardianum. 
See Fig. 335. 
D. p. assamicum (Assam). jl. smaller but more brilliantly 
coloured than in thetype. /. narrower. Stems shorter and slen- 
derer. (B. M. 5058, under name of D. Falconeri var.) 
D. p. giganteum (gigantic).* 7. larger and stouter than those 
of the type. Winter and spring. _ fh. sometimes 5ft. Birma. 
A grand variety. (W. O. A. iii, 113; F. M. ser. ii. 212, under 
name of D. Wardianum giganteum.) 
D. percnanthum (black-spotted-flowered). _/., sepals and petals 
pale yellow, the former triangular, the chin blunt, the petals 
oblong, obtuse, longer than the sepals ; lip white, ligwlate, trifid 
at apex, the mid-lobe and borders of the upper part yellow, the 
side lobes blunt-rhomboid, the keels brown and purple; racemes 
numerous. Stems strong, shining. Moluccas, 1886. 
Fic. 336. INFLORESCENCE OF DENDROBIUM PHALMNOPSIS. 
D. Phalznopsis (Phalenopsis-like).* l. about 2in. in diameter ; 
perianth spreading; sepals pale pink, with reticulated nerves ; 
petals rose-red, much larger, rhomboid-orbicular, acute ; lip dark 
purplish-blood-red, the lateral lobes rounded, the middle one 
tongue-shaped ; raceme loosely six- to ten-flowered ; September. 
l. alternate, distichous, 6in. to 8in. long. Stems tufted, 1ft. to 
13ft. high. North Australia and New Guinea. See Fig. 556. (B. M. 
6817 ; G. C..n.s., xxvi., p. 556; L. 280; R. 42; W. O. A. iv. 187.) 
D. P. hololeuca (wholly white). ”. pure white. 1895, (G. C. 
1895, xviii., pp. 192, 396, f. 72.) 
D. P. Rothschildianum (Rothschild’s). 1. din. broad; sepals 
and pee snow-white ; lip light pink, with darker lines on the 
disk. 1892. 
D. P. Schroderianum album (Baron von Schroder’s white). 
a. pure white, with the exception of some purple lines in the 
throat. 1894, 
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