DENDROBIUM LINGUIFORME. Native of Queensland and New South Wales. 
A quaint and dainty species generally found on tea-trees and rocks. It grows in 
the form of a creeping rhizome or stem, which is frequently branched and rooted 
from the nodes. The leaves are sessile (that is, they grow from the stem without 
a petiole or stalk), oblong and rounded and generally have three grooves running 
lengthways down the leaf. They usually lie flat on the surface of the tree or 
rock upon which they grow. In the Spring the plant sends out numerous short 
(up to about 6 inches) racemes, each of which carries a number of dainty white 
blossoms with narrow, pointed and incurved sepals and petals. The lip is very 
short and recurved. It is usually white with a creamy tinge. Flowers are 
fragrant.’ (AS ).B3.€3. D2. ES. FS. 
DENDROBIUM LITUIFLORUM. Native of Lower Burma and Assam. 
A fine species with swollen-based stems up to about 2 feet, slender, terete and 
many-jointed. They are clothed with the greyish sheaths of the linear-lanceolate 
leaves (up to 4 inches long and about 3 inch wide) which, being deciduous, fall 
as the stems mature. The racemes are short and carry from 2 to § fair sized 
flowers. The sepals are oblong and pointed, while the petals are broadly elliptic 
in shape. They vary in colour, but are usually a deep amethyst. The labellum 
is tubular at the base, but the front lobe is curved upwards at the tip, concave 
and broad. It is deep amethyst at the base with a yellow band round the disk, 
this being edged with purple. Flowers in Autumn. A2. B2. C3. D3. El. (ea) F2. 
Syn. Dend. Hanburyanum. 
Variety candidum. Sepals and petals white, otherwise similar to the type. 
Variety Freemanni. Stems shorter and thicker than the type. Sepals and petals 
deep purple, the band round the disk being sulphur coloured. 
Variety robustus—a very rare variety, the flowers being up to 34 inches across 
—otherwise similar to the type. 
DENDROBIUM LODDIGESI. Native of China. 
A pretty species with short greyish-green stems about 6 inches long and slender. 
Leaves about 2 inches long and oblong lanceolate in shape. Flowers are produced 
singly from the stems among the leaves near the top. They are about 1} inches 
across. Sepals and petals are rosy pink (or white with a rose suffusion) at the base, 
deepening to intense purple at the tips. The labellum is short, concave and 
roundish, the margins being fimbriated. It is yellow from centre to the throat 
with a rosy tone spreading to the edges and the apex. Flowers are fragrant. 
Blooms in Spring. A2. B3. C1. D3. El. (eb) FS. 
DENDROBIUM LONGICORNU. Native of Sikkim, Nepal, etc. 
A charming species with erect, terete, slender, bristly and slightly furrowed 
stems a foot or more in height. The deciduous, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves 
are about 1} to § inches in length. The short terminal racemes carry from one 
to three large flowers. The lateral sepals are up to 2 inches long, while the dorsal 
sepal and the petals are about } inch long, all being narrow and pointed. The 
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