DENDROBIUM CYMBIDIOIDES. Native of Java. 
A showy species rarely met with. Pseudobulbs thick, oval and angular, 
topped with two long, narrow pointed, leathery leaves. Racemes produced erectly 
from the top of the pseudobulbs. They bear from 5-7 fair sized flowers with 
spreading oblong sepals and petals, pale greenish yellow in colour. The lip is 
short and heart-shaped and is white in colour, blotched with purple at the base, 
the disk having 2 or 3 lines of small lumps or tubercles. The sides lobes are in- 
curved. Al. B1. Cl. D1. El. (eb) FS. 
DENDROBIUM D’ALBERTISII. Native of New Guinea. 
A very striking species with rather short, squarish, tapering stems. Leaves about 
3 inches long, elliptic and stout of texture. Racemes are produced from the 
top of the stems, and laterally from the upper nodes of the recently matured 
stems and occasionally from the older wood. They are long, and sometimes 
branched, and carry numerous quaintly shaped flowers, having two anther-like 
greenish petals (somewhat curled, but not to the same extent as the similar 
petals of Dend. stratiotes). The sepals are white, as is the shapely three-lobed lip, 
but the latter is attractively striped with bright purple. The flowers are very 
fragrant. Al. Bl. C2. D2. El. (ea) F1. 
DENDROBIUM DEAREI. Native of the Philippine Islands. 
A most desirable species which is rather difficult to obtain. Stems up to 3 feet 
in length, stout at the base and tapering at the top. The leaves are persistent 
and are about 2} inches in length, oblong and notched. The racemes spring from 
the tops of the newly matured stems, and also from the lateral nodes of the older 
ones. Each raceme carries from § to 7 large white flowers which retain their 
beauty for a long time. The sepals are narrow and pointed, while the petals are 
broadly oval. The lip is broad and somewhat heart-shaped. Like the petals it 
is white, with a tinge of pale green (sometimes yellowish) in the throat. The 
flower is about 2} inches across. Al. Bl. C1. D1. E2. (ed) F1. 
DENDROBIUM DENSIFLORUM. Native of Nepal. 
A lovely species with large drooping clusters of blossom. Stems stout, up to 15 
inches tall, somewhat thicker at the top than at the base, four-angled and topped 
with a number of broad, oblong shining leaves, 4-5 inches in length. The 
racemes are long and drooping, and are produced from the upper nodes of the 
two-year-old (and sometimes older) stems. Flowers are up to 2 inches across, 
the sepals and petals being a bright orange-yellow in colour, spreading, and rounded 
in shape. The labellum is somewhat deeper in shade, rhomboidal in shape, the 
edges being minutely serrated and densely clothed with short, soft, golden hairs. 
Ad .oB3. C313, Et.) (or 2.)) (ea) HF 12. 
Var. Dend. Schroderi. Racemes longer, flowers further apart and larger. Sepals 
and petals white—lip deep orange. Syn. D. densiflorum album. 
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