Variety formosanum. Stems longer than the type and inclined to be pendulous. 
The pedicels are long and white, the apex of the petals and the labellum purple, 
while the throat is green. 
Var. purpureum. Similar to variety nobilius, but the flowers are smaller. 
Var. Schroederianum. Similar to variety albiflorum, but larger, faintly flushed 
with pink, the apex of the labellum being purple. 
Var. intermedium. Sepals and petals white. The lip is white, with a violet spot 
in the disk. 
Var. Wallichianum. Longer stems—foliage deeper green. Flowers rather more 
brilliantly hued than the type. 
DENDROBIUM OCHREATUM. Native of Assam. 
A beautiful species with fairly stout pendulous stems, furrowed, and reddish 
striped, with prominent nodes. They grow to about a foot in length. The 
leaves are ovate lanceolate and pointed, and are deciduous. The short racemes 
grow from the upper part of the youngest stems at the same time as the leaves, 
and carry from 1 to 3 flowers. The flowers are nearly three inches across and 
are a bright golden orange, the labellum having a large blood-red blotch in the 
centre. Flowers in late Spring. A3. B3. C2. D1. E2. (ed) F2. 
DENDROBIUM OCHROLEUCUM. Native of Mt. Salak, Java. 
An island variety of Dend. heterocarpum. 
DENDROBIUM ODIOSUM. Native of Mong-tse, China. 
A rare but attractive white species with short, fusiform, furrowed stems about 
8 inches long which divide at the top into long thin branches which are clothed 
with linear-lanceolate pointed leaves about 3 inches long. The short racemes 
carry one or two flowers and grow from the axils of the leaves. Flowers are 
about 14 inches across, are strongly scented and pure white. They appear in 
Spring. Al. B3. C3. D1. El. (ea) F7. 
DENDROBIUM OPHIOGLOSSUM. Native of Cape York. (Illustrated. ) 
A variety of Dendrobium Smilliae, from which it differs mainly in having yel- 
low flowers; the other differences are of botanical interest only. See Dendrobium 
Smilliae. 
DENDROBIUM PALPEBRAE. Native of Siam and China. 
A species very like Dend. densiflorum in form. Stems club-shaped, somewhat 
quadrangular, yellowish and shining. Leaves usually 3-5, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute and leathery, about 6 inches long. Racemes, mostly rather sparsely flow- 
ered, from the top of the matured stems. Flowers about 2 inches across. Sepals 
and petals white, the labellum having a middle lobe bright yellow. Al. B3. Cl. 
D2. El. (ea) Fi2. 
DENDROBIUM PANDURIFERUM. Native of Rangoon. 
An interesting species with long (about 2 feet), erect, and rather cylindrical 
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