finely textured. The racemes, which are shorter or about as long as the leaves, 
come from the apex or laterally from the upper nodes and carry two or three 
flowers on 1} inch pedicels. Flowers are fair sized, but bell-shaped and nodding. 
Sepals and petals up to 1$ inches long. ‘The labellum is a little longer than the 
sepals and petals, trilobed, the lateral lobes being erect and the middle lobe ovate- 
cordate and pointed at the apex. The sepals and petals are pale yellowish-green, 
the labellum white with purple veins. Flowers in Spring. Al. Bl. Cl. D1. El. 
(eb) FS. 
DENDROBIUM HOHLIANUM. Native of Fiji. 
The best of the Fijian orchids. The stems are slender, erect and about 20 inches 
tall. The leaves are sheathed, black-spotted, ovate-lanceolate, and about 34 inches 
long. Racemes come from the upper nodes and carry a few closely congested 
flowers, each about 14 inches across. They are a beautiful shade of rose-purple 
and appear in late Winter. A2. B2. C1. D2. El (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM HOOKERIANUM. Native of Assam. 
Stems up to 5 feet or more in length and comparatively slender but swollen at the 
bases. The leaves are lanceolate and acutely pointed, and about 5 inches long. They 
fall as the stems mature. The flowers are borne on long racemes produced from the 
axils or nodes on the upper parts of the matured stems. Each raceme bears from 6 
to a dozen large golden-yellow flowers. The sepals and petals are acutely oblong 
and equal in size. The labellum is large and spreading with a fringe round the 
edges, velvety on the top, deep yellow in colour and with two dark red blotches 
in the throat. Altogether the plant greatly resembles the better known D. fim- 
briatum var. oculatum both in form and flower. A2. B2. D2. El. or E2. (ea) Fl. 
(Syn. D. chrysotis.) 
DENDROBIUM HORNEI. Native of Fiji. 
A species rarely if ever seen here. Stems about 16 inches in length, thick at the 
base, but tenuated at the apex (sometimes fusiform). Leaves (2) are about 3 
inches long by 3 inches wide, oblong and obtuse, thick and leathery. Racemes 
from apex 8 inches or longer. Dorsal sepals lanceolate, oblong. Petals similar to 
the dorsal sepal, lateral sepals circular. Labellum short and oblong ovate, the 
lateral lobes insignificant, middle lobe broadly ovate with an undulated edge. 
Flower about 2 inches across. Sepals and petals a rather dusty white with a purple 
veined labellum. Al. B2. C1. D2. El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM IMPERATRIX. Native of New Guinea. 
A lusty species with clustered stems growing to a length of 6 feet and more, and 
about an inch in thickness, many jointed and well leaved. The sheathed leaves 
are greyish green, with oblong obtuse blades bilobed at the apex and about 6 inches 
long by over two inches in width. The long racemes grow from below the ter- 
minal of the stem and carry a number of flowers each on a pedicel about 2 inches 
in length. The dorsal sepal is long, pointed and undulating, with the lateral 
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