Racemes are produced from near the apex of the stems, and are long and crowded 
with white or creamy yellow flowers, which, if spread out, would be about 2 
inches across. The sepals and petals are acutely lanceolate and are much incurved. 
The flowers are fragrant. Al. B2. C3. Dl. El. (ea) FS. 
DENDROBIUM FYTCHIANUM. Native of Burma and Malaya, etc. 
A small habited species with erect, slender, round stems up to a foot high with 
a few oblong-lanceolate and acute leaves which fall before the flowers appear. 
Racemes from the tops and from the upper nodes of the stems. These carry 
eight or ten snowy white flowers with a three-lobed lip, the lateral lobes curled 
inwards and rosy pink, the middle lobe heart-shaped and pointed at the front, 
usually white in colour, but sometimes more or less suffused with pink. The 
rear portion is lightly bearded with yellow silky hairs. A2. B2. C2. D2. El. 
(ea) F9. 
Variety roseum. Similar in type to the above, but the flowers are entirely of a 
bright rosy pink colour. 
DENDROBIUM GIBSONII. Native of Sikkim, Assam, Burma, Java and Yunnan. 
A colourful species with long, round, slender stems whose oblong pointed leaves 
are persistent and parchment-like in substance. The racemes are long and droop- 
ing and spring from the axils of the leaves at the top of the two-year-old stems 
(and occasionally from the older stems). Flowers (up to about 15 of which are 
borne on each raceme) are deep yellow in colour, the labellum being rather deeper 
in shade, downy and ornamented with a double maroon blotch towards the 
back of the middle lobe. It is slightly fringed on the curling sides. It has a 
strong, rather musty, scent. Al. B.1 C2. D3. El. (ea) Fé. 
Syn. Dendrobium fuscatum. 
DENDROBIUM GOLDFINCHII. Native of Solomon Islands. 
An interesting species with massed compressed stems, oblong in shape, from 3 
inches to a foot in height, and about an inch or more in width. The leaves are 
oblong lanceolate and acutely pointed, their papyrus-like bases sheathing the 
stems. The racemes appear at the apex of the stems, are about 2 inches in 
length and are branched. About 4 to 5 flowers are produced on 1 inch pedicels. 
The most striking feature of the blooms is the long conical spur which comprises 
3 the total length of the flower. Sepals and petals are oblong and pointed. The 
labellum is wedge-shaped at the base, and spreading in front, the whole flower 
being rounded into a kind of cornucopia. The sepals are milky in colour, some- 
times tinted pale yellow, the petals are white, while the labellum is creamy with 
a number of small green dots in the middle of the disk. Flowers in early Summer, 
and blooms are delicately scented. Al. Bl. C1. D2. El. (ed) F7. 
DENDROBIUM GOLDIEI. Native of North Queensland. (Illustrated. ) 
A beautiful species often confounded with D. superbiens, but differing from 
that species in its richer colouring, broader petals without a white margin, and in 
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