Variety Statterianum. Flowers very intense violet coloured—labellum smaller 
than the type. 
DENDROBIUM PIERARDII. Native of Sylhet, Sikkim, etc. 
A very attractive and free flowering species, with long, slender, pendulous stems 
up to 3 feet long. The ovate-lanceolate pointed leaves are about 4 inches long, 
and are deciduous. The flowers grow in little clusters of 2, or sometimes 3, from 
practically all the nodes of the stems, the same stems flowering for two or more 
successive years. The flowers are in dainty pastel shades, the sepals and petals 
are very pale rose-pink, or white with a rosy blush. The labellum is short, 
stalked, roundish, and is pale primrose, with faint purple stripes in the throat 
and claw. They are about 2 inches across. Flowers appear in early Summer. 
A3. B3. C2. D3. El. or E2. (ea) F4. 
Syn. Dend. cucullatum. 
Variety lantinifolium. Stems wider and darker in colour—flowers finer in texture. 
DENDROBIUM PRIMULINUM. Native of Sikkim. (Illustrated. ) 
Another dainty species, akin to D. crepidatum, Stems cylindrical, erect (some- 
times more or less prostrate), up to about 18 inches tall. Leaves lanceolate, to 
4 inches in length, the apex being irregularly bilobed. Flowers are produced 
usually singly, but occasionally in pairs, from the lateral nodes—generally lining 
each side of the stem. Sepals and petals oblong-obtuse, are white (sometimes 
faintly flushed), tipped with delicate pink. The lip is orbicular in front, the 
back portion being more or less convolute. It is pale yellow, often pink flushed, 
and striped with pale violet at the base. Al. B2. C2. D3. E2. (ed) Fé. 
Variety giganteum. Flowers larger and more brilliantly tinted. More pendu- 
lous in manner of growth than the type. 
DENDROBIUM PUGIONIFORME. Native of S.E. Queensland and New South 
Wales. 
Of botanical and local interest only. Stems long, slender, branched and creep- 
ing, rooting from the nodes. The leaves are articulate, ovate, lanceolate and 
sharply pointed, the tip being hard and sticky. In Spring it produces short 
racemes, with a few tiny whitish flowers. AS. B3. C3. D2. ES. F13. 
DENDROBIUM PULCHELLUM. Native of Northern India. (Illustrated.) 
One of the finest of the Dendrobiums. Stems very long and stout, tapering 
towards the apex, dark red in colour, and evergreen. The leaves are 3 to 4 
inches long and nearly an inch wide, linear, pointed (not acutely), green and 
glossy. Flowers are produced laterally from the upper nodes of the older stems. 
They droop under the weight of the half dozen or more large flowers produced 
on each. These flowers are up to § inches in width, with ovate sepals and petals 
(the latter much the larger) of a pleasing biscuit-yellow, the edges being pink- 
ish. The lip is oblong, narrow at the base and curved inwards at the front 
lobe. It is a pale yellow in colour with two shining, large, reddish purple 
blotches at the rear. The back edges are fringed, and the whole lip is downy. In 
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