DENDROBIUM MONTIS-YULEI. Native of Mount Yule, New Guinea. 
Another of the attractive New Guinea Dendrobiums with thick, even, woody 
stems, carrying two or three broadly oblong, obtuse, thick, fleshy leaves. The 
racemes come from the top of the stems and bear about 7 flowers with a narrow 
pointed dorsal sepal and petals and oblong pointed lateral sepals. The labellum 
is somewhat excavated at the back and is pointed in front, the side lobes being 
rounded. The flowers are yellow, the disk having three raised lines. Al. B2. 
Cl. D2. El (eb) F4. 
DENDROBIUM MOOREI. Native of Lord Howe Island. 
A small but beautiful species growing in clumps with short (up to about 9 
inches) cylindrical, glossy, green, grooved stems topped with usually five oblong 
lanceolate leaves about 5 or 6 inches long. The racemes are produced from the 
axils of the leaves near the apex of the stem and carry a number of smallish, 
graceful, pure white frosted-looking flowers about } inch across. A2. B3. C3. 
POET. (calor S.. 
DENDROBIUM MORTII. Native of South Queensland and New South Wales. 
One of the terete leaved species having long, slender, branched and pendulous 
stems. The leaves are solitary, four-angled and up to 6 inches long and very 
slender. Flowers are borne on short pedicels from the articulations at the base 
of the leaves and appear either solitary or in pairs. The petals and sepals are 
about } an inch in length, the latter being slightly the longer. They are white, 
with longitudinal brown stripes. AS. B3. C3. D1. E4. F12. 
DENDROBIUM MOSCHATUM. Native of Assam, Khasi, Burma, etc. 
One of the finest species, with stout cylindrical stems up to more than 6 feet in 
length with persistent oblong, lanceolate, pointed, leathery leaves from 4 to 6 
inches long. The racemes come from the axils of the leaves on the top part of 
the two-year-old stems, and grow to about 10 inches long, pendulous and bear- 
ing 10-15 large spreading flowers up to 34 inches across, yellowish-buff in col- 
our, with a rosy flush. The lip is pouch shaped, covered densely with short, fine 
golden hairs and ornamented with a large blotch of deep maroon-purple on each 
side at the base. Musk scented. Al. B2. C2. D2. El (ea) F3. 
Variety calceolaria—similar to type, but rather pinker in toning. 
Variety cupreum—flowers somewhat smaller than the type, sepals and petals 
apricot-yellow, lip golden yellow—blotches orange. (Syn. Dend. calceolus.) 
DENDROBIUM MUTABILE. Native of Java. 
A small but pretty species with long, slender, extended fusiform stems up to 
about 40 inches in height. Leaves oblong obtuse and minutely bilobed, about 3 
inches long and 1 inch wide. Racemes from near apex of stems carry 8 to 12 
flowers. ‘These are about an inch across the sepals and petals, being rose coloured, 
with the lower portions deeper in tone. The labellum is white, the back portion 
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