(in some varieties creainy or even yellowish). Labellum white crested with 
coppery red. Flowers in late Spring. Al. B2. C2. D3. El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM CHLOROPS. Native of Western India. 
An orchid rarely seen in Australia. Stems slender and semi-pendulous—up to 
about 15 inches long. Leaves are lanceolate and pointed. They fall before the 
flowers are produced in short sprays from the top and upper nodes of the stems. 
They are about 14 inches across and have sepals and petals of very pale yellow, 
the labellum being yellowish green at the base. Flowers in Spring. A2. Bl. C2. 
12; E22 (ea) 4. 
DENDROBIUM CHRYSANTHUM. Native of Nepal. 
A long stemmed species. Stems up to over five feet in length, pendulous, and gen- 
erally contorted. Leaves, which fall as the stems mature, are about 4 inches 
long by about 13 inches wide—lanceolate-ovate and pointed. Flowers usually 
appear on the younger pseudobulbs from the leaf axils, but occasionally from the 
nodes of the older stems. Racemes vary and carry from 2 to 6 flowers of a 
bright orange-yellow colour with waxy surface. The labellum is rounded and 
fringed, the same colour as the sepals and petals with a large irregular blotch of 
reddish-purple in the centre. Flowers in Autumn. A3. Bl. C2. D1. E2. (eb) F6. 
DENDROBIUM CARYSOTIS (Syn. D. Hookerianum. q.v.) 
DENDROBIUM CHRYSOTOXUM. Native of Burma. 
A vigorous and hardy species of considerable popularity both because of the 
loveliness of its flowers and its easiness of culture. It has stout pseudobulbs 
which are generally spindle-shaped (i.e. narrow at bottom and top and swollen 
in the middle), but sometimes clavate (i.e., slender at the base and thickened at 
the top—like a club), and always prominently ribbed. Each stem has a few 
(generally four) oblong-acute, dark green, leathery leaves at the top—these being 
4-5 inches long by about 14 inches wide. The long, drooping racemes come 
from the tops of the newly developed pseudobulbs and occasionally from the 
lateral nodes of older stems. They bear from 12-15 flowers with sepals and petals 
about equal in size and a rich golden-yellow in colour. The lip is the same colour 
as the sepals and petals with a deeper shade in the front and an arch of deep orange 
at the throat. The surface of the lip is downy and the edges are beautifully 
fringed and ciliated. I find this orchid does remarkably well hung under a lemon 
tree where it gets full morning sunlight up to about 10 a.m. in Summer. Al. 
B2y,.G2.'D2) El or, 2. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM CILIATUM. Native of Burma. 
A small but interesting species with stems from 4 to 18 inches in length, some- 
what slender and tapering towards the top, and growing in a tufted formation. 
Leaves are persistent, about 3 inches long by an inch wide, oblong with rounded, 
slightly notched tip. The short racemes grow from the top of the newly mat- 
ured bulbs and carry from 6 to 18 (or even more in big plants) blooms each 
about an inch in diameter. The sepals and petals are about equal in size, and are a 
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