Variety sfenopterum—has smaller flowers and the lateral lobes of the labellum 
triangular, the sepals and petals being ochre-yellow, spotted with purple and the 
lip yellow spotted with brown, the laterals being lined and spotted with brown. 
This variety resembles D. atroviolaceum rather more than the type. 
DENDROBIUM MALEOLENS. Native of the Celebes. 
A species named from its unpleasant odour. Stems terete, drooping and branched, 
up to 3 feet in length. The leaves vary greatly in shape, and oblong, ovate- 
oblong and linear leaves (all obtuse) have been noted on the same stem. Racemes 
come from the nodes of the upper parts of the stems and carry a few white pink- 
flushed, rather evil-smelling flowers, the dorsal sepal and the petals being violet- 
veined. The flowers are about 24 inches across when expanded. Flowers in 
July. A4. Bl. Cl. D3. E2. (ed) F4. 
DENDROBIUM MARMORATUM. Native of Burma. 
A delightful species with round, smooth, greyish-black stems about a foot high, 
with linear lanceolate leaves. The flowers are white with purple tips, the label- 
lum being purplish with a ciliated margin and very like D. transparens in shape. 
Als, G5) C2. 13. Et. (ea) FZ. 
DENDROBIUM MASTERSIANUM. Native of New Guinea. 
A showy species with fairly stout, erect, slightly noded stems. The beautiful 
flowers are white, the labellum being spotted and lined with purple. Flowers 
are 3 inches across and appear in late Spring. Al. B2. Cl. Dl. El. (ea) Fl. 
DENDROBIUM MONILE. Native of North Japan. 
A cool-growing species with cylindrical, slightly fusiform stems, which grow 
to a height of about a foot. Each stem carries about 6 leaves which are ligulate, 
or occasionally linear-lanceolate, the apex being acute. The flowers grow in ones 
or twos from the nodes on the upper part of the stem. They are white, the back 
and throat of the labellum greenish spotted with purple. The flowers are deli- 
cately fragrant and appear in midsummer. Al. B3. C1. D4. El. (ea) F4. 
Syn. Dend. moniliforme (wrongly), Dend. Japonicum, Onychium Japonicum. 
DENDROBIUM MONOPHYLLUM. Native of Eastern Australia. 
A small but dainty Australian native which has conical furrowed stems growing 
from a creeping rhizome and which reach a height of from 1 to 4 inches, and 
bear usually a single (but very rarely two) oblong, flat, or broadly linear green 
leaf about 4 inches long unequally bilobed at the apex. The racemes are as 
long as or slightly longer than the leaves and come from near the apex of the newly 
matured pseudobulbs. They carry up to about 15 bright yellow, faintly frag- 
rant flowers somewhat connivent in form, but quite pretty when grown in a 
mass. It grows excellently out in the open attached to a piece of peat or a hard- 
wood slab. In its natural state it grows in large masses and often covers large 
sandstone boulders or trunks of trees. AS. B3. C3. D1. E4. or ES. F13. 
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