DENDROBIUM FALCOROSTUM. Native of Coastal Areas of South Eastern 
Queensland and Northern New South Wales. (Ilustrated.) 
A lovely species with grooved stems about a foot in length, topped with 4 or 5 
oblong, obtuse, leathery leaves 4 to 5 inches in length and about 14 inches in 
width. Racemes spring from the axils of the leaves at the top of the stem, grow 
to about 10 inches long and carry up to 20 white or creamy fragrant blossoms 
with oblong, rather obtuse sepals and lanceolate petals, the latter being a little 
the shorter. The labellum is short and incurved, the side lobes curling inwards, 
giving the lip something of the appearance of a falcon’s beak (from which fact 
the species gets its name). The lip is the same creamy white as the sepals and 
petals, but is prettily marked with red or purple spots and blotches, the throat 
being yellow. It flowers in the late Spring, and during the warmer parts of the 
day is very sweetly scented. Al. B3. C3. D2. El. (ea) or ES. FS. 
DENDROBIUM FARMERI. Native of Sikkim, Nepal and North Burma. 
A distinctive species, having square stems, slender at the base and from 6 to 12 
inches in height. Each stem has two or three fleshy, ovate or lanceolate pointed 
leaves, usually from 3 to 4 inches in length, but sometimes as long as 7 inches, and 
from 14 to 2 inches in width, Drooping flower scapes come from the tops of the 
stems and carry a number of two-inch flowers with creamy-pink flushed sepals and 
petals. The downy labellum is yellowish, with a richer yellow centre, the front 
being somewhat serrated. Flowers in late Spring. Al. B3. C2. D2. El. (ea) FS. 
Var. albiflorum. Sepals and petals whiter, and lip orange. 
Var. aureo-flavum. Less robust in habit. Sepals and petals deep yellow—labellum 
saffron yellow. 
DENDROBIUM FELLONSII. 
Syn. D. gracilicaule (q.v.). 
DENDROBIUM FIMBRIATUM. Native of Nepal. 
A handsome and vigorous species with tall, stout, erect stems, sometimes reaching 
a length of nearly five feet. Leaves are oblong, lanceolate and pointed, from 3 
to 6 inches long by 3 to one inch in width and evergreen. Flowers are produced on 
drooping racemes from the top of the year-old and older stems, and carry up to 
a dozen lovely blossoms from 24 to 3 inches in diameter. They are delicate in 
texture and a deep rich yellow in colour, the labellum being edged with a golden 
mossy fringe. Al. B3. C2. D3. El. (ea) F3. 
Variety oculatum. Sepals and petals a deeper orange—yellow with a deep maroon- 
purple blotch in the centre of the lip. 
DENDROBIUM FINDLAYANUM. Native of Burma and Siam. 
A species with swollen nodes along curving, rather slender stems, which grow to a 
length of 18 inches or less, and produce a pair of lanceolate, acutely pointed de- 
ciduous leaves from their top. The flowers are produced (in twos or three) on 
longish pedicels at or near the top of the recently ripened stems. Flowers are 
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