and greenish stems. Leaves deciduous, lanceolate and pointed. Racemes short, 
carrying a few greenish yellow flowers more or less intensely striped with purple. 
Al. B2. C4. D2. El. (ea) F4. 
DENDROBIUM PARISHII. Native of Tenasserim, Burma. 
A lovely species with pendulous, sometimes prostrate stems about 12-18 inches 
long, and up to } inch in thickness. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, and 
leathery, with grey sheaths. The flowers grow in twos or threes from the nodes 
of the two-year-old stems in the Spring. They are about 3 inches across, and a 
beautiful dark rose, the labellum being white down the middle, and having a deep 
purple blotch on each side of the throat. It is velvety in appearance. A3. Bl. 
C2. D2. El. (ea) F2. 
DENDROBIUM PARTHENIUM. Native of Borneo. 
A charming species with long, angular, furrowed stems. The leaves are 13 
inches long, $ an inch wide, thick, sinewy, obtusely bilobed. Flowers produced 
in pairs from the nodes of the stems. They are white, the claw being tipped 
with green, and the base of the lip marked with purple. They are about 25 
inches across. A2. ‘Bl. Cl. D1. El. (ed) F2. 
DENDROBIUM PENDULUM. 
Syn. of Dend. crassinode. (q.v.). 
DENDROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS. Native of North Queensland, New Guinea, 
Timur Laut, etc. (Illustrated.) 
One of the grandest species, with long, somewhat fusiform stems, moderately 
stout, and bearing 8 or 9 lanceolate, acute, leathery leaves up to about 6 inches 
in length. The racemes grow from the terminals of the young stems and from 
the nodes of the older stems, the same stem often flowering some years in succession. 
The flowers are large, in some instances up to 4 inches across, but in the type 
from 24 to 3 inches in diameter. In colour they are variable, but the general 
type is beautiful magenta-purple, while the lip is darker purple, veined with 
intense purple. Sometimes the shade is pale pink, and at others so dark a purple 
as to be almost black. Flowers appear in Autumn and Winter. Al. Bl. Cl. 
D1. E1. (ea) or (eb) F1. 
DENDROBIUM PHALAENOPSIS.—Variety compactum. 
A compact growing type. Pseudobulbs short, rarely exceeding 6 inches in length, 
up to 3 inch in thickness and topped with 3 or 4 leaves up to 4 inches in length 
and nearly an inch wide. The flowers are reddish purple and about the size of 
Dend. bigibbum, but the labellum is shorter and broader at the apex. 
Variety hololeucum. Pure white. Rare. (Syn. P. album). 
Variety Rothschildianum. Flowers large (up to 4 inches across), white, rose 
tinted, labellum rose-pink veined with purple, sepals narrower than in the type. 
Variety Schroederianum. Sepals white, petals intense violet-—sometimes almost 
entirely white. 
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