about 3 inches across and have white lilac tinted sepals and petals, and the broad 
heart-shaped labellum is deep yellow in the centre with pale yellow or white 
margins. Flowers in late “-+~mer. A2. Bl. Cl. D1. El. (ea) F2. 
DENDROBIUM FITZGERALDII. 
(Syn. D. superbiens (q.v.).) 
DENDROBIUM FORMOSUM. Native of Nepal and Sylhet, etc., etc. 
A magnificent species with stout, erect, hirsute stems with large broad-ovate 
leathery leaves. ‘The flowers are produced in groups of from 3 to 5 from the 
tops of the recently matured stems. Sepals and petals pure white. Labellum 
very large, tongue-shaped, white with a bright yellow groove down the middle. 
Flowers from 34 to 4 inches across. Flowers in Autumn. Variety giganteum 
has blooms § inches across, and the central groove of the lip is broader and deeper 
in colour. Flowers are of good texture and last 5 to 6 weeks. This plant requires 
ample water at all times and should be given the maximum of warmth and light. 
Al. Bl. Cl. D1. E2. (eb) Fl. 
DENDROBIUM FOXII. Native of Perak River, Malay States. 
A quaint species with long slender reddish stems about 3 feet in length with a 
number of lanceolate pointed leaves, about 4 inches long and one inch wide. 
Racemes grow from the upper nodes of the matured stems and are slender and 
pendulous, and pink coloured. They carry from 7-10 flowers with white rosy 
flushed sepals about } an inch long, ovate in shape and pointed, and white petals 
nearly an inch in length, and twice as wide as the sepals. The lip is pink flushed 
and about the same length as the sepals. The front portion is rounded, and the 
edges are fringed. Flowers in Spring. A2. Bl. C2. D3. El. (eb) FS. 
DENDROBIUM FROSTII. Native of North Queensland. 
A variety of D. bigibbum and probably synonymous with D. bigibbum alba. 
Sepals and petals pure white. Throat tinged with green. 
DENDROBIUM FUSCUM. North Australia. 
A rarely seen species with long (up to 6 feet) somewhat fusiform stems clothed 
at the top with a number of ovate, sometimes elliptical, thick fleshy leaves up to 
4 inches in length with incurved edges. The racemes (about 8 inches long) come 
from the lateral nodes on the upper part of the stems and bear up to about 12 
flowers, sepals and petals are brown in colour, the petals being darker and both 
having a paler margin. The lateral sepals and the petals are about 3 of an inch 
in length, the dorsal sepal being shorter. The petals are undulated. The lab- 
ellum is short with incurved side lobes and a short, pointed middle lobe. Flowers 
in late Spring. Al. Bl. Cl. Dl. El. (ea) F4Z. 
DENDROBIUM FUSIFORME. Native of Queensland. (Illustrated). 
A species with (often) long, stout fusiform stems frequently purplish in colour 
with two or three large, fleshy, leathery leaves, similar to those of the speciosum. 
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