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THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Dendrobium—continued. 
D. platycaulon (broad-stemmed). fl. straw-coloured, upwards 
of lin. long, larger than in D. lamellatum (which this species 
resembles), and differing in the shape of the lip. Philippine 
Islands, 1892. 
D. plicatile (plaited). jl. dull yellow, slightly tinged with red, 
eae large, Saktions ; lip curiously plaited. Philippine Islands. 
D. pogoniates (bearded). fl. small ; sepals and petals yellowish, 
the former lanceolate, acute, the latter cuneate-oblong; lip 
orange, with a long mid-lobe, bearded. J. linear-lanceolate. 
Stems fusiform, lft. high. North Borneo, 1886. A miniature 
plant, of more botanical than horticultural interest. 
D. polycarpum (many-fruited). jl. yellowish, with purplish-red 
borders to the side lacinie ; sepals ligulate-triangular; petals 
longer, ligulate-spathulate; lip having roundish, angulate side 
lacinie, and a rounded, triangular, undulated central one; 
racemes many-flowered, loose. Stems 3ft. long. Sunda Islands, 
1883. 
D. primulinum giganteum (gigantic). /. white, tipped pink, 
with a sulphur lip, very large, freely produced. Sikkim, A fine 
variety. SYN. D. cucullatum giganteum. 
D. profusum (profuse). jl, sepals and petals yellowish-green, 
with fine purple at the base inside, and purple dots on the 
toothed etals 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-flowered. 
1. deciduous. Philippine Islands, 1884. 
Fia. 337. 
FLOWER OF DENDROBIUM PULCHELLUM. 
D. pulchellum. Syns. D. Dalhousieanum, D Loddigesii. A 
flower of this species is shown in Fig. 337 
D. pumilum (dwarf). . white, cream-coloured, or yellow, lin. 
long, solitary, shortly pedicellate ; lip having a dark spot at the 
tip or veined with red. J, sin. to Zin. long, orbicular to elliptic, 
obtuse. Pseudo-bulbs of one many-grooved internode lin. to 
lsin. long. India. (T. L, 8S. xxx., t. 31, f. A.) 
D. punctatum (dotted). A synonym of Wailesia (Dipodium) 
punctata. 
D. purpureum (purpe). j. bright purple, about jin. long, 
cylindrical, arranged in dense, spherical, sessile clusters, whic’ 
are produced from the nodes of the old, leafless, spindle-shaped 
stems, of many years’ duration, and usually 3ft. to 4ft. long ; 
bracts cordate. Moluccas, 1834. 
D. p. candidulum (whitish). ., tips of the sepals very bright 
green; ovary pure white, stalked. 1887. (L., t. 98.) 
D. p. Moseleyi (Moseley’s). jl. white, tipped green, the tips 
of the sepals and petals less pointed than in the type; bracts 
oe: acuminate. Stems Yin. (? or more) long. Arn Islands, 
1884. 
D. revolutum (revolute). 7. solitary, axillary, in. long ; sepals 
and petal: white, reflexed upwards, lanceolate, acute, nearly 
equal; lip bright yellow-green, nearly quadrate, convex; disk 
with three furrows and red bands; bracts caducous. July. 
7. numerous, distichous. lin. to 2in. long, oblong or linear- or 
Dendrobium—continued. 
ovate-oblong, obtuse or retuse, half-amplexicaul, Stems tufted, 
lft. long. Malay Peninsula, 1882. This species is not very 
handsome. (B. M. 6706.) 
D. rhodopterygium Emerici (Emeric’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-coloured bar. ‘he 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. poluphlebium. 
D. rhombeum (rhomboid). A synonym of D. aureum. 
D. Rimanni (Rimann’s). jl. equalling those of a good 
D. speciosum, disposed in terminal, somewhat zigzag racemes ; 
sepals and petals yellow, the former Bbiped purple outside ; lip 
white, with purple reticulations. J. oblong, 4sin. long, very 
coriaceous. stems cylindric-fusiform, leafy above. Moluccas, 
1883. A stately species. 
D. robustum (robust). 1. yellowish-green, marked with purple 
lines. Stems 2ft. long. New Guinea, 1895. This species is 
closely allied to D. Mirbelianum, but has less acute segments and 
smaller bracts. 
D. rutriferum (shovel-bearing). jl., sepals rose, triangular, 
blunt, the lateral ones extended into a long pouch ; petals rose 
at the base, whitish at the blunt end ; lip Degalcke en tleeeste: 
with inflexed borders, thus being 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. Sanderianum (Sander’s). This species most closely resembles 
D. Dearei, but has larger flowers, and the lip is stained with 
purple instead of ereen at the base ; they are borne in axillary 
clusters of two or three. Borneo, 1894. 
D. sanguineum (blood-coloured). /. solitary in the upper axils, 
about lin. long; sepals and the broader petals crimson, except at 
the base in front, where they are marbled and spotted with 
crimson on a whitish ground; lip whitish, small, with some 
purple lines and spots. Stems slender, about 3ft. long. Labuan, 
95. 
D. sarmentosum (sarmentose). jl. lin. across, solitary or two 
or three together, produced after the leaves; sepals and petals 
white ; lip white, with a yellow blotch and a few lines of crimson 
at the base. Stems very slender, 14ft. long, branched. Birma, 
1897. This species has the habit of, and is closely allied to, 
D. barbatulum. (B. M. 7527.) 
D. Schroderi (Baron von Schréder's). 
D. densiflorum. 
D. secundum niveum (snowy) il. white, with the exception 
of an orange tip to the lip. Stem shorter than in the common 
fonn. 
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. Smilliz. 7. purplish-rose, small, produced in dense racemes 
2in. to 3in. long from the uppermost nodes. J. 2in. to 4in. long. 
Stems 1ft. to 2ft. long, thick. Queensland, 1888. More interesting 
than beautiful. (F. A. O.i., pt. vii., t. 2.) 
D. speciosissimum (very showy).* jl., pure white, about 2sin. 
across, with a deep orange-red blotch on the lip, resembling 
those of D. formosum (to which this species bears great resem- 
blance). Stems 5ft. to 6ft. high, slender. Borneo, 1895. 
D. speciosum Bancroftianum (Bancroft’s), 7., sepals and 
petals white; petals longer and narrower than in the type ; lip 
paler, with a few purple spots at base. Stems slenderer. 
D. spectabile (remarkable). fl. large, singularly formed, pro- 
duced in upright spikes; sepals and petals pale yellow with 
irregular stripes of purple, the former triangular, extended into a 
wavy tail, the latter narrower ; lip white with purple veins, the 
side lobes erect, hood-like, the front one elongated. New 
Guinea. (G. C. Dec. 30, 1899, p. 491, f. 162.) - 
D. Stratiotes (soldier).* 1. of a good size, very peo ; sepals 
ivory-white, lanceolate, acuminate, rolled back; petals pale 
green, longer than the sepals, narrow-linear, twisted, quite erect ; 
lip cream-coloured, veined violet, three-lobed, the front lobe 
ovate, acute ; racemes numerous. /. rather short, oblong. Pseudo- 
bulbs long, fusiform. Sunda Islands, 1886. A remarkable and 
Handeone species. (G. C. n. s., xxvi., p. 177; I. H. 602; 
», b. 43. 
D. strebloceras (twisted-horned). #., sepals green, nerved 
brown on the inner side at base, ligulate, acute, twisted, un- 
dulated; petals dark cinnamon-brown, margined green, longer, 
linear, acute, twisted four times; lip green, brown, white, and 
mauve-purple, the side laciniz oblique, oblong, truncate ; column 
An albino form of 
