greenish-yellow, the labellum being deeper in colour and marked longitudinally 
with a number of reddish-brown stripes, the edges having a row of dark brown 
hairs (from which fact it gets its name). This plant should be grown under 
glass in Sydney and in the cooler parts of Brisbane (preferably with heat in 
Winter). A2. Bi. C2. D1. El. (ea) F7. 
Syn.: D. rupicola. 
DENDROBIUM CLAVATUM. Native of Assam. 
One of the seldom met with species worthy of inclusion in any collection if 
opportunity offers. The stems are long and pendulous, reaching a length of three 
feet. Leaves are long, narrow and pointed, and the plant is evergreen. The 
flower scapes are produced laterally from the nodes of the leafy stems, and each 
produces 4-6 blooms with rounded, brilliant yellow-orange sepals and petals. The 
downy labellum is slightly darker in colour and has a large double-blotch of 
chocolate in its centre and a row of golden-brown hairs along the edges. A4. 
B2. Cl. D2. El or 2. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM COELOGYNE. Native of Burma. 
A distinctive species not often seen. Pseudobulbs are very short (rarely exceeding 
two inches) and square, exceptionally stout, sometimes as thick as they are long, 
and are topped by two or three long, very thick and leathery, elliptically shaped 
leaves. Racemes grow from the tops of the pseudobulbs and carry 1 or 2 very 
large flowers, the sepals being longer (up to 23 inches) and pointed, and the petals 
about as long, but narrower, both being greenish or yellow, mottled with dark 
red. The labellum is dark purple with narrow side lobes and a broad trapezoidal 
centre lobe. AS. B1. C1. D2. E2. or E4. (eb) FI1Z. 
DENDROBIUM CRASSINODE. Native of Lower Burma. 
A difficult species with strange knobbly stems up to about 24 inches in length. 
The leaves are about 4 inches long, narrow and pointed. Flowers are pro- 
duced usually in pairs, but often in threes, from the upper nodes of the recently 
matured stems after the leaves have fallen. They are from 2} to 3 inches across 
and have equal sized, oblong, pointed sepals and petals, white, with amethyst to 
purple tips and a kidney-shaped, spreading, velvety lip, white, marked with yellow 
and amethyst at the tip. Flowers in early Spring. Like a number of the other 
Dendrobiums this species does not seem to flourish for more than about three years 
under cultivation. It has a tendency to mould and damping off. Al. B1. C4. 
D1. E2. (ea) FI. 
Var. albiflorum.—Sepals, petals and labellum are pure white. Yellow blotch at 
throat. 
Var. Barberianum.—Plant more vigorous in habit and bloom—flowers last longer 
and are more richly coloured—throat and middle of labellum blotched with deep 
orange. 
DENDROBIUM CREPIDATUM. Native of Assam (lIllustrated.) 
A desirable species. Pseudobulbs (semi-pendulous) 12 to 15 inches in length, 
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