decumbent habit detracts from the showiness of the plant, but it is altogether a 
striking and desirable species. Al. B1. C3. D2. El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM AUGUSTAE-VICTORIAE. Native of New Guinea. 
A tall growing species, the stems being upwards of 6 feet in height when fully 
developed and about } inch in thickness. The leaves are about 4 inches long 
and about 14 inches wide. The racemes are usually produced two or three at 
a time from the upper nodes of the stems, and are up to 18 inches in height and 
fairly closely covered with white flowers with a purple tinted labellum, each 
bloom being about 2 inches across. Flowers in late Spring. Al. B2. C2. D2. 
El. (ea) F111. 
DENDROBIUM BAILEYI. Native of North Queensland. 
Named after Mr. F. M. Bailey. Of botanical interest only. Has slender, leafy 
stems about 1/10 inch thick. The leaves are grass-like, and up to 3 inches in 
length. The flowers are borne on short lateral racemes, and on the plants so far 
reported only one flower on each has been noted. A2. B1. Cl. D1. El. (ea) F13. 
DENDROBIUM BAIRDIANUM. Native of North Queensland. 
Another small North Queensland Dendrobe of interest only to those who specialise 
in Australian orchids, Pseudobulbs 3-7 inches high, club-shaped and about } inch 
thick, somewhat grooved and noded, with a few narrow, pointed leaves each about 
_ two inches long by $ an inch wide. Racemes are about 2 inches long and bear 
a few small flowers with yellowish green sepals and petals. The labellum is 
shorter than the petals and is paler in colour, the side lobes being veined with deep 
putple: Al. Bl. C1. Di. E1.. (ea) F13. 
DENDROBIUM BARBATULO-CHLOROPS. Western India. 
A natural hybrid between D. barbatulum and D. chlorops. Stems slender, about 
18 inches long, and somewhat pendulous. The leaves are long and narrow and 
acutely pointed, and last only while the young stem is growing, falling as the 
stem approaches maturity. The racemes grow from the nodes of the stem and are 
drooping and crowded with a number of large flowers—white sepals and petals 
(sometimes flushed with pale pink and sometimes faintly tinged with green). The 
trilobed labellum is white, the side lobes being green. A4. B2. C3. D2. E4. or 
E2 (ed) F8. 
DENDROBIUM BARBATULUM. Native of Western India. 
A somewhat delicate species with slender, semi-drooping stems. The foliage, as 
in the foregoing species is of a transient nature, the narrow pointed leaves falling 
as the slender flower racemes appear at their axils. The racemes are crowded with 
smallish white flowers, each with a green spur. The sepals are broad and pointed, 
the petals being about half as wide. The lip is large and spreading. A4. B2. C3. 
D2. E4. or E2. (ed) F8. 
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